Breaking Texas: Georgetown Islamic Center’s Expansion Builds Sharia Enclave, Raising Children From Cradle to Imam to Pipeline Mosque Leaders Nationwide (Video)

The Georgetown Islamic Center (GIC), located at 7275 County Road 110 in unincorporated Williamson County, Texas, is not the modest neighborhood mosque it presents itself to be. Since its founding in 2018, GIC’s ambitions have gone far beyond weekly prayers: it is constructing a self-contained Islamic enclave — a multimillion-dollar society within a society, designed to operate independently of the outside world except when strategically advantageous.

At the heart of this vision is a relentless focus on the next generation. Through full-time Quran schools, weekend programs, after-school indoctrination, and a newly launched seminary, GIC is creating an insulated environment where children can live their entire lives — education, worship, recreation, and commerce — without ever being shaped by or integrated into non-Muslim America.

What began as a handful of families praying in living rooms has now grown into a sprawling project with national ambitions: a full-scale Islamic seminary, commercial marketplace, and leadership pipeline designed to train and deploy imams, teachers, and organizers into mosques across America.

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From Families in Living Rooms to a $2.4 Million Campus

To understand how far GIC has come and where it is going, you have to start at the beginning.

In 2018, “a few families in the Northeast Austin area” began gathering for prayers in private homes, restaurants, and parks. Their stated mission was always bigger than weekly worship — it was to create a permanent Islamic institution.

By March 2022, that goal had become reality. GIC closed on a 6.2-acre tract of land containing a house, barn, and RV/truck parking business for $2.4 million. The purchase was financed through $1 million in community donations and a $1.4 million loan from an Islamic bank — a sharia-compliant arrangement that explicitly avoids conventional interest and adheres to Islamic financial law.

But mosque leaders never disclosed the name or location of this “Islamic bank.” Was it one of the handful that operate under U.S. law, or was the financing arranged overseas? Without disclosure, Texans cannot know whether overseas entities are underwriting mosque expansions.

Within weeks, the barn had been converted into a musalla (prayer hall), the home had been expanded into a 5,000-square-foot mosque, and a resident imam had been installed. On August 27, 2022, the facility officially opened — the foundation of what would soon become a far more ambitious enterprise.

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GIC’s 2024 Video: A Blueprint for Islamization

In 2024, GIC leaders released a promotional video charting their history and ambitions. It was more than a building update — it was a manifesto.

The video highlighted Quran memorization programs (with four students completing the entire Quran that year), advanced Arabic and Islamic studies for adults, and a slate of community events. But the most revealing section laid out a nationwide agenda:

“According to ISNA, there are more than 3,000 masajid in the United States. However, more than half of them don’t have any Imam because it is so difficult to find qualified Imams. We need to build institutions where we can produce our Imams, our leaders, youth coordinators, Islamic school teachers, thinkers, writers. Our vision of GIC is to build a state-of-the-art Islamic seminary, where we will produce our next generation leaders.”

To sustain that vision, GIC unveiled an economic strategy:

“Alhamdulillah, we have the RV and truck parking business that is generating revenue for our Masjid. We want to expand on this to build halal stores, restaurants, bookstores, Islamic clothing stores… and the profits of all of these businesses will help run the masjid and lower the burden on the community.”

In other words, build a self-sufficient Islamic enclave that combines worship, commerce, and recreation, thereby becoming embedded in the local economy.

This model raises serious questions. Would retail storefronts attached to a mosque enjoy the same tax advantages as the mosque itself? By channeling commercial profits directly into a religious institution, GIC appears to be blurring the traditional line between tax-exempt worship and taxable commerce — an area that deserves scrutiny from regulators.

The presentation closed with a generational pledge:

“Our community is rapidly growing, and soon we will be needing larger Masjid. We will need sports facilities for our youth, and we need community center and much more… Let us hold our hands together and make GIC debt-free.”

This “rapid growth” is not accidental. The United States continues to admit large numbers of Muslim immigrants and refugees each year, while higher birth rates within Muslim families accelerate expansion. The result is a built-in demographic engine that fuels demand for larger mosques, schools, and Islamic institutions.

This was no longer about local prayer needs. It was about creating permanence: a seminary, a marketplace, youth facilities, and a leadership pipeline — all justified as sadaqah jariyah (eternal investment in Islam).

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The Educational Arm: Darul Uloom Youth Indoctrination

At the center of GIC’s plan is its hardline educational arm, Darul Uloom Austin (DUA), which operates a network of full-time and part-time programs designed to shape children from the earliest ages. These include:

• Full-Time Quran Hifz Program: Boys and girls spend their school hours memorizing the Quran with tajweed — the sharia-prescribed rules that regulate every syllable and pause as a religious obligation. Alongside this, they study aqeedah (Islamic creed), hadith, fiqh, history, and “character training,” all drawn from sharia-based curricula. This is not education in the Western sense, but indoctrination into ritual law from the earliest age.
• After-School & Weekend Programs: After-School & Weekend Programs: Children as young as six are immersed in daily Quran recitation, seerah (life of Muhammad), and fiqh, reinforcing an Islamic worldview outside of standard U.S. schooling hours.

GIC does not market these programs as optional enrichment. Instead, it tells parents that enrolling their children ensures not only the child’s “life-long impact” but also a “tremendous reward for their parents in the Hereafter.” In other words, parents are made to believe their own salvation depends on putting their kids into GIC’s pipeline of indoctrination. This is not education — it is psychological leverage, binding entire families to the institution through fear of eternal loss.

• Al-Iman Sunday School: Running every Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 2:15 p.m., this program focuses entirely on Quran memorization, Arabic grammar, and Islamic studies.
• The Naseeha Seminary Program: Designed for teens and young adults, the curriculum includes Arabic syntax, Islamic theology (‘aqeedah), jurisprudence (fiqh), and personal tarbiyah (development) under the guidance of ulama (Islamic scholars). While officially described as giving students a “strong foundation in key Islamic sciences” and a “clear religious identity,” the practical effect is to train youth to live Islamically in a secular environment, with loyalty first to sharia.
• The Deen Intensive Program: A summer initiative that immerses teens in Islamic sciences, Arabic grammar, hadith, fiqh, and “personal development,” with the stated goal of strengthening Islamic identity and producing “future leaders and flag-bearers of Islam.” Its objectives include cultivating unwavering faith, modeling character after Muhammad, and “safeguarding our youth through Islam — and Islam through our youth.”

From toddlers memorizing Qur’an to young adults molded into future imams, GIC has engineered a closed-loop system — a full pipeline designed to raise a generation inside a sharia enclave, cut off from the American mainstream.

Darul Uloom Austin is explicit about its aims: to cultivate “strong and unwavering faith in Allah,” model character after Muhammad, address modern challenges strictly through Islamic principles, and “safeguard our youth through Islam — and Islam through our youth.” In plain terms, the mission is to raise an insulated generation that sees itself not as American first, but as flag-bearers of Islam.

This is reinforced by the faculty themselves. Nearly all instructors are trained in foreign madrasa systems, including those from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, Algeria, Bangladesh, and South Africa. Their expertise is not in broad-based education, but in sharia (Islamic law), fatwa-writing (issuing legal rulings from Islamic scripture), tajweed (the rigid rules governing Qur’anic recitation), and hadith (the collected sayings of Muhammad treated as binding authority). The result is predictable: graduates conditioned to view the world through a sharia lens.

By keeping its youth inside this system from cradle to imam, GIC ensures its graduates do not simply remain in Georgetown, but are deployed as loyal leaders to mosques and Islamic institutions across America.

In August 2024, the mosque hosted Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah, a UK-based Deobandi scholar and certified Sharia jurist. As a Mufti, he is authorized to issue fatwas — Islamic legal rulings that dictate how Muslims must live under Sharia. His lecture, “Foundations of a Strong Islamic Society,” promoted the UK’s model of Sharia councils and Islamic seminaries, a system that has produced parallel societies and legal conflicts across Britain. By inviting him to Georgetown, GIC signaled that its own seminary and indoctrination programs are part of a larger blueprint: building a self-sustaining Sharia society in Texas guided by the same playbook.

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Dawah Training: From Enclave to Outreach

GIC’s ambitions do not stop with raising children in isolation. The mosque also trains its adult members in Dawah — the Islamic mandate to spread the faith to non-Muslims. In July 2025, GIC promoted a “Dawah Training in Austin, TX,” hosted at the North Austin Muslim Community Center, with a follow-up “hands-on street Dawah” scheduled the very next day.

While presented as harmless outreach, Dawah holds a far deeper place in Islamic law. According to Um Dat al-Salik (Reliance of the Traveller), an authoritative manual of sharia certified by Al-Azhar University, Book O (Justice), section o9.8 states:

“The caliph makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians provided he has first invited them to enter Islam in faith and practice… and the war continues until they become Muslim or else pay the non-Muslim poll tax (jizya).”

The sequence is explicit: first comes Dawah, then comes jihad. Classical jurists like those behind Al-Hidayah reaffirm this order:

“The Prophet did not commence combat with a people without first inviting them to Islam.”

In this light, GIC’s Dawah programs are not simply “interfaith dialogue.” They are part of a historically codified process — indoctrinate the youth, train the adults to proselytize, and prepare the community to expand Islam’s reach step by step.

In practice, GIC is training members for exactly this sequence: classroom indoctrination, street-level Dawah, and long-term territorial expansion.

Having trained its youth in isolation and its adults in proselytization, GIC’s next move was to secure the physical territory needed to anchor its enclave permanently, land that would shield its growing apparatus from outside oversight.

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The 2025 Expansion: A $900,000 Land Grab

In 2025, GIC launched its boldest expansion yet: the purchase of a 2-acre tract directly adjacent to its campus for $900,000.

Officially, mosque leaders described the parcel as a practical addition: a second entrance to ease traffic, new classrooms for the seminary, commercial storefronts for revenue, and utility access for larger-scale development.

Their official fundraising pitch framed it in spiritual terms:

“Together we can turn this land into a legacy for Islam. Let’s turn stones into a legacy for Allah, for our children.”

But at a fundraiser streamed live on August 16, 2025, GIC leaders exposed what really happened behind the scenes.

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Explosive Revelations at the August Fundraiser

One of the evening’s hosts, Islamic realtor Sam Sheikh — Principal Broker of SpecTower Realty Group— openly boasted about how GIC’s latest land grab was secured.

Sheikh told the audience that for two years he had cultivated personal relationships with the neighbors who owned land near the mosque. That effort, he said, finally paid off one freezing night when he received a late-night call. Sheikh immediately picked up a GIC buyer and drove him to the property. Standing on the land, the buyer declared:

“Give it to GIC. Put it under their name.”

But Sheikh’s revelations went much further. He bragged that while GIC had locked down the land for $900,000, he was already “sitting on an offer for $1.8 million today.”

He admitted that other Muslim businessmen tied to GIC had tried to take over the contract — one to build a retail center, another to carve it into ten residential lots — but he refused, insisting:

“I have a bigger picture in mind for our Ummah.”

Sheikh then emphasized the property’s unique development potential:

“The sewer is right across the street… It’s in the ETJ, and it’s unrestricted.”

In Sheikh’s own words, the parcel was a prime development site — outside city zoning authority, unrestricted, and ready for rapid commercial or residential build-out. This was not just an ordinary land deal; it resulted in GIC obtaining a highly valuable site for expansion.

His comments raise serious questions. Who did Sheikh really represent — the buyer, the seller, or both? By all appearances, Sheikh represented the buyer. But if he also acted for the seller, that could constitute a serious breach of fiduciary duty, especially if competing offers were suppressed. Did the seller ever know about the higher $1.8M offer, or was that information deliberately concealed to secure the land for GIC at half price? And why did Sheikh suggest the neighbors should not “hear” what he was saying — was he boasting about clever maneuvering, or quietly admitting to concealment?

The fundraiser video speaks for itself — listen closely and decide whether Sheikh was bragging about his cleverness or quietly confessing to concealment.

By Sheikh’s own words, this was no ordinary transaction. He described a two-year campaign of personal influence, a below-market sale, and competing offers he refused to entertain. Whether this reflects savvy deal-making, questionable ethics, or something more serious is for regulators — and the public — to determine.

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Why This Matters

The $900,000 expansion and the August fundraiser are one story, and together, they reveal:

• Insider cultivation: A two-year campaign to win over neighbors.
• Undervalued acquisition: Land worth $1.8M secured for half that price.
• Strategic rejection: Other Muslim businessmen were pushed aside to keep the land under GIC.
• Exploitation of loopholes: ETJ location allows expansion without zoning oversight.
• Religious justification: Framed not as a local necessity but as a duty to the global Ummah.

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The Bigger Picture: A Replicable Model

Taken together, GIC’s 2024 video and 2025 fundraiser outline a clear blueprint:

1. Acquire land — even under market, through insider relationships.
2. Exploit ETJ zones — expand outside city jurisdiction to avoid scrutiny.
3. Develop institutions, such as mosques, seminaries, youth centers, businesses, and sports facilities.
4. Create a pipeline — train imams, teachers, and Islamic professionals.
5. Deploy nationwide — exporting leaders into mosques across America.

This is not just Georgetown or Round Rock. GIC is following a model spreading across Texas: Islamic hubs built with commerce, seminaries, and infrastructure — designed for permanence and influence while evading accountability.

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Conclusion

With every land purchase and expansion, GIC tightens its hold in Georgetown, Hutto, and North Round Rock. This is not about serving local worshippers. It is about building permanence — a seminary, a commercial hub, a youth indoctrination pipeline — designed to operate as a society within a society.

And GIC’s leaders are unashamed about their mission. As they told donors:

“Every brick, every classroom, every prayer here will count for you. This is sadaqah jariyah.”

What Texans are witnessing in Georgetown is not isolated growth. It is a blueprint for Islamic enclaves across the state, financed through sharia banking, shielded by ETJ loopholes, and justified as an eternal religious duty. Left unchallenged, this model will be replicated town by town until parallel institutions stand entrenched across Texas.

The question is no longer whether this is happening. It is: why are our leaders allowing it and when will Texans demand it stop?

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