Voucher-funded Islamic schools linked to Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organizations
Analysis: Muslim schools and mosques are expanding across the Triangle as a consequence of modern immigration policy
An expanding Islamic school with campuses in Durham and North Raleigh has ties to the radical Muslim Brotherhood, according to a report by the RAIR Foundation.
According to its website, the Al-Huda Academy was founded in 2009 by the Raleigh-Durham Chapter of the Muslim American Society in concert with the Jamaat Ibad Ar-Rahman mosque in Durham.
The Muslim American Society was originally founded as the American chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood, according to a 2004 report by the Chicago Tribune; three other national branches of the MB have recently been designated as global terrorists by the US Treasury, with a press release explaining that “chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood purport to be legitimate civic organizations while, behind the scenes, they explicitly and enthusiastically support terrorist groups like Hamas.”
In addition, the RAIR report lists various statements made by MAS leadership defending terrorists as “martyrs” and supporting global Islamic jihad.
Voucher funding
According to a January 2024 video, the then-principal of Al-Huda Academy Durham related that approximately 2/3 of the 185 students were being funded by the state’s Opportunity Scholarship Program.
The program’s annual report for 2024-2025 fiscal year reveals that the number of taxpayer-funded students at the schools has risen, with the two campuses receiving a total of $1,051,863 for 162 students. In addition, the report lists recipients at the following additional Islamic schools in the Triangle:
Al-Iman School Raleigh: 263 students, $1,570,730
An-Noor School Raleigh: 57 students, $368,504
Madinah Quran Academy Raleigh: 19 students, $78,355
Mishkah Academy Cary: 47 students, $279,673
The Al-Huda Academy is currently constructing/remodeling a facility on Highway 55 in Durham to serve as a new campus for “fulltime” K-12 education, according to posts on the organization’s Facebook page.
Analysis: religious freedom vs immigration
Although one might tend to crumple up the use of taxpayer dollars in educating students to “become ambassadors of Islam through their strong moral and spiritual character” and toss it in the bin of “Religious Freedom,” it is quite obvious that the spread of Islam in America is not the result of Americans becoming Muslim, but rather of immigration policy adopted in the latter half of the twentieth century.
This is evidenced by the staff page on the website of the Al-Huda Academy Durham, where nearly every one of the teachers/administrators is identified with their foreign country of origin such as Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan, Algeria, Sudan, Iraq, and India.
In analyzing whether it is “truly American” to defend the cultural jihad of Islam in the West, one may turn to founders like Thomas Jefferson, who successfully advocated for a religious freedom bill in Virginia which he noted would encompass the “Mahometan” and the “Hindoo.”
However, in practice, the founders had no intent to let the Muslim or Hindu peoples take root in America, as one of the laws passed by the First Congress was the Naturalization Act of 1790 which forbid American citizenship to every foreigner who was not a “free white person...of good character.”
This restriction lasted in some form until 1952, when the McCarran-Walter Act removed the racial language while maintaining national/regional quotas with the intent to “preserve the sociological and cultural balance of the United States.” (European countries received 94.41% of the quotas, with 41.22% going to the UK, 16.28% to Germany, and 11.20% to Ireland).
The national-origins quotas were abolished with the Hart-Celler Act in 1965, truly throwing the doors of the nation open to the world outside of the predominantly Christian peoples of Europe.
The ongoing record-high immigration wave has not only reshaped the demographics of America, bringing the population of white Americans down from 85% in 1965 to 57.5% in the 2020 census, it has also exploded the Muslim population from approximately 100,000-150,000 in 1965 to an estimated 4.5 million in 2020.
The number of mosques in the United States has steadily grown along with the influx of Muslims, more than doubling in the years since the 9/11 attacks from 1,209 in 2000 to nearly 2,769 in 2020 according to the US Mosque Survey.
At least twenty-one mosques (aka masjids) exist in the Triangle area, including:
Apex Mosque
Cary Masjid aka Islamic Center of Cary
Chapel Hill Masjid aka Chapel Hill Islamic Center
Ar-Razzaq Islamic Center (Durham)
Jamaat Ibad Ar-Rahman, Fayetteville St. Masjid (Durham)
Jamaat Ibad Ar-Rahman, Parkwood Masjid (Durham)
Islamic Ahlul Bayt Association of the Triangle (Durham)
Masjid Tawheed Was Sunnah (Durham)
Muhammad Mosque No. 34, Nation of Islam (Durham)
North Durham Masjid aka Northern Durham Islamic Association
Alnoor Islamic Center (Fuquay-Varina)
Al Mustafa Center (Garner)
Islamic Center of Morrisville
As-Salaam Islamic Center (Raleigh)
Madinah Quran and Youth Center (Raleigh)
Masjid An-Noor al-Muhammadi (Raleigh)
Masjid King Khaled aka Mosque of the Late King Khalid bin Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud (Raleigh, Shaw University)
North Raleigh Masjid aka Muslim Youth and Community Center
Raleigh Islamic Institute
Raleigh Masjid aka Islamic Association of Raleigh
Smithfield Masjid aka Islamic Center of Smithfield