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In America, tax-exempt status isn’t a loophole. It’s a privilege—one meant to serve the public good, not undermine it.

Under 26 U.S. Code § 501(c)(3), that privilege is reserved for institutions that are religious, charitable, educational, or scientific in nature. But the law is explicit: these organizations may not promote criminal conduct, engage in substantial political lobbying, or advocate ideologies that undermine the U.S. Constitution.

Yet that’s exactly what many Islamic nonprofits are doing—with the IRS’s blessing, and in some cases, with taxpayer funding.

These groups hide behind “religious freedom.”

What they’re really advancing is Sharia—a totalitarian legal system that stands in direct opposition to American law and values.

They preach that man-made laws are illegitimate.

That Islam’s legal code is supreme.

And American citizens are subsidizing it.

Take Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California. Marketed as America’s first Islamic liberal arts college, it presents itself as an academic institution committed to interfaith dialogue and scholarship.

But behind the polished branding lies a very different reality.

Zaytuna’s curriculum includes Umdat al-Salik (Reliance of the Traveller)—a classical Shafi’i manual of Islamic law that is explicitly anti-Western in its rulings.

This text teaches that:

• A Muslim who insults the Prophet must be executed.

“Anyone who reviles Allah or His messenger is to be killed without being asked to repent.” (o8.7)

• A woman may not lead a country, serve as a judge over men, or hold public authority.

“Leadership is only valid for a male, free, Muslim of Quraysh descent.” (o25.3)

• Non-Muslims under Islamic rule (dhimmis) must pay a special tax and live under restricted rights.

“Jizya is collected from non-Muslims yearly… in a state of submission.” (o11.4–11.11)

• Homosexual acts are capital crimes.

“The penalty for sodomy is death—whether the person is married or not.” (p17.2)

These are not fringe interpretations. They are canonical doctrines, taught in a U.S.-based institution operating under full nonprofit protection.

Zaytuna’s co-founder, Hamza Yusuf, is celebrated in elite circles. He’s advised presidents, spoken at global forums, and sits comfortably in the halls of American influence.

But Yusuf has long presented Islam as a personal faith, while platforming ideas that affirm Islam as a political system, rooted in Sharia supremacy.

This isn’t peaceful outreach.

It’s theocratic ambition in disguise.

And it’s not isolated to elite campuses.

Across the country, mosques with proven ties to extremism continue to operate tax-free.

The Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Virginia—once home to al-Qaeda-linked cleric Anwar al-Awlaki—remains tax-exempt to this day. Awlaki openly praised the 9/11 hijackers and mentored at least two of them before becoming a senior al-Qaeda leader and eventually being killed in Yemen.

Yet the mosque that hosted him continues to receive public accommodations under IRS protection.

And it’s not an outlier.

In Illinois, the Bridgeview Mosque Foundation has long been accused of ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. Multiple imams affiliated with the mosque have publicly endorsed martyrdom operations, and past financial disclosures revealed connections to known terror-linked charities, including KindHearts, which was shut down by the U.S. Treasury for its role in financing Hamas.

Despite this, the mosque retains full 501(c)(3) status.

These institutions aren’t just houses of worship—they’re part of a network of ideological infrastructure operating inside the United States, shielded by religious exemptions and legal protections.

The warnings have already come—in court.

In the Holy Land Foundation trial, federal prosecutors exposed an extensive Muslim Brotherhood apparatus in America. Internal Brotherhood documents submitted as evidence described their mission as:

“A kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house…”

That’s not a conspiracy theory.

It’s federal testimony, upheld in court, and undisputed on the record.

And yet—nothing changed.

Groups like CAIR, ISNA, and NAIT remain tax-exempt. They influence school curriculum, prison policies, and even city planning boards. They sue municipalities to impose Islamic accommodations in public spaces. They retreat behind the First Amendment and cry “Islamophobia” the moment they’re challenged.

Let’s be clear.

The First Amendment protects freedom of religion—but it was written to shield personal belief, not to defend political systems that seek to replace the Constitution.

Sharia, unlike Christianity or Judaism, is not confined to private faith or personal morality. It is a comprehensive system of law—with mandates for criminal punishment, governance, foreign policy, and religious supremacy. It doesn’t merely coexist with secular law—it aims to supplant it.

So when Sharia-based organizations exploit religious protections, they’re not practicing faith.

They’re advancing governance by another name.

As for the label “Islamophobia”—let’s break that down.

A phobia is an irrational fear.

But fear of a doctrine that mandates execution for apostasy, stoning for adultery, amputation for theft, and the subjugation of non-Muslims and women—that’s not irrational.

It’s informed.

It’s not bigotry to oppose an ideology that criminalizes dissent, bans free speech, and punishes conversion.

It’s self-preservation.

Even American universities are deeply compromised.

Georgetown University’s Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding has received millions in donations from Saudi and Qatari regimes.

Harvard University accepted over $30 million from the Qatar Foundation—a group tied to the Muslim Brotherhood and accused of financing radical Islamic curricula. Much of that money flowed into Islamic studies programs, promoting sanitized narratives and whitewashing Sharia-based ideologies as “cultural dialogue.”

At Texas A&M, more than $76 million was funneled from Qatar between 2012 and 2018, prompting a Senate investigation into foreign influence. Despite the scrutiny, the university opened a full satellite campus in Doha—a regime notorious for silencing dissent and harboring extremists.

None of this is illegal.

That’s the point.

Under current U.S. law, foreign governments and entities are allowed to donate to American universities—often with little transparency and minimal oversight. The law only requires disclosure after a certain threshold, and enforcement has been spotty at best.

So while millions pour in from regimes that criminalize Christianity and fund jihadist groups, American institutions cash the checks, slap “dialogue” on the label, and call it education.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, over $1.3 billion in foreign donations flowed into U.S. colleges between 2012 and 2020—much of it from Gulf nations exporting Wahhabi ideology under the banner of scholarship.

This isn’t charity.

It’s ideological warfare—with a tax write-off.

Our enemies aren’t hiding.

They’re tenured.

And the double standard couldn’t be clearer.

When Christian institutions speak on political issues from the pulpit, they’re threatened with IRS audits or risk losing their tax-exempt status under the Johnson Amendment.

In 2023, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association was investigated after speaking out on social issues. Alliance Defending Freedom—a legal nonprofit defending religious liberty—has been repeatedly targeted by left-leaning watchdogs and flagged in reports as an “extremist” group for holding to biblical definitions of gender and marriage.

In contrast, when Islamic institutions promote the supremacy of a foreign legal system that prescribes death for dissenters, there’s no pattern of scrutiny.

No DOJ investigations.

No calls for oversight or reform.

Why?

Because the system has been gamed.

Political Islam has learned that the quickest path to power in the West isn’t through bombs or bullets—it’s through lawsuits, grant applications, and victim narratives.

Cry “Islamophobia”, accuse anyone who questions your doctrine of hate, and watch the bureaucrats retreat.

This isn’t the free exercise of religion.

It’s legal warfare masked as faith.

It’s a weaponized belief system, embedded in public institutions, and protected by the very laws it seeks to overcome.

There’s already precedent for what needs to happen.

In Bob Jones University v. United States (1983), the Supreme Court ruled that tax-exempt status can be revoked when an institution’s practices violate established public policy—in that case, racial discrimination.

If preaching white supremacy disqualifies an institution from receiving federal tax benefits, then preaching Sharia supremacy should disqualify them too.

If America claims to have an “overriding interest” in combating bigotry, then it must apply that interest consistently—to every ideology, every doctrine, every group.

And that includes Islam.

We don’t need new laws.

We need courage.

The IRS must audit any 501(c)(3) that promotes legal systems in conflict with the Constitution.

Religious nonprofits must be required to disclose foreign funding sources, their doctrinal texts, and ideological affiliations.

And Congress must hold public hearings on the systematic abuse of tax-exempt status for ideological conquest.

Religious liberty was never meant to protect movements that aim to dismantle the Republic.

That’s not liberty.

That’s surrender by statute.

If an organization preaches the supremacy of a foreign legal order—whether Sharia, communism, or anything else—it should not qualify as a charity under U.S. law.

Because this is not about religion. It’s about national survival.

If we keep funding our enemies in the name of tolerance, we won’t just lose our tax base.

We’ll lose the country.