Texas Under Siege: Tablighi Jamaat — Known as Al-Qaeda’s 'Recruitment Network' — Establishes U.S. Headquarters in Garland (Video)

While Texans sleep under the illusion of safety, a sprawling global Islamic missionary network long flagged by U.S. and European intelligence as a gateway to jihadism has quietly established its new headquarters on American soil — in Garland, Texas.

The name of the mega-mosque is Masjid Yaseen, and it’s no ordinary place of worship. It is now believed to be the national nerve center for Tablighi Jamaat (TJ), a shadowy South Asian-based movement described by security officials across the Western world as a “recruiting ground for Al-Qaeda,” “an antechamber to terrorism,” and a “Trojan Horse for Islamic conquest.”

This is not speculation — this is a fact hiding in plain sight.

Despite its vast global footprint, Tablighi Jamaat remains obscure to most Americans — by design. The group deliberately avoids media exposure, avoids formal hierarchy, and keeps its finances secret. It shuns politics publicly while internally preparing adherents for the long-term conquest of societies through religious transformation. But this is not merely cultural influence — it is religious subjugation.  Tablighi Jamaat’s true aim is the complete replacement of secular and socratic-based law, which Islam refers to as “man-made law,” with Islamic law (Sharia). Their stated mission is to make the entire world live under Sharia, where sovereignty belongs only to Allah, not to constitutions, courts, or democratic governments.

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What Is Tablighi Jamaat — and Why Should America Be Very Concerned?

Founded in British India in 1926 by the Deobandi cleric Maulana Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi, Tablighi Jamaat has grown into the largest Islamic missionary movement in the world, boasting tens of millions of followers across South Asia, Europe, Africa, and North America.

Yet unlike Christian missionaries who openly share their faith, Tablighi Jamaat functions through secrecy, subversion, and stealth expansion. It avoids all public scrutiny — refusing to publish membership rolls, reveal funding sources, or engage with non-Muslim institutions. The group shuns media, denies any political agenda, and operates without a public-facing leadership structure. This is not transparency — it is tactical invisibility.

Their goal isn’t peaceful “coexistence” — it is the eventual Islamization of society through conversion, indoctrination, and the replacement of Western law with Sharia. In their worldview, democracy, free speech, and constitutional government are illegitimate because only Allah has the right to legislate, and only Islamic jurists have the right to interpret what Allah claims is lawful or not.

Every fall, more than a million bearded, white-robed Muslim men descend on the Pakistani town of Raiwind for a massive three-day rally. These are not casual worshipers — they are trained missionaries of Tablighi Jamaat. Simultaneous gatherings take place in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Bhopal, India — a global mass mobilization for Islamic proselytism unmatched by any other religion on earth.

French intelligence called it “the antechamber of fundamentalism.” U.S. counterterrorism officials warned it has been used repeatedly by Al-Qaeda for recruitment, logistics, and concealment. And most alarmingly, its followers have shown up time and again in terror plots and jihadi attacks around the world — from London to Casablanca, New York to Gujarat.

Even Pakistan — the movement’s stronghold — has experienced its subversive power. In 1995, Tablighi Jamaat-linked military officers and Harakat ul-Mujahideen operatives plotted a coup against Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. The group’s reach extends deep into Pakistan’s military and intelligence services, including the ISI.

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Garland, Texas: Ground Zero for a Silent Islamic Takeover

After quietly relocating from Louisiana, the Islamic Association of Arabi — the parent body behind Masjid Yaseen — established its Garland site in 2011. But this wasn’t just a local mosque move. This was a strategic relocation of power.

Multiple sources, including internal community documents and regional imams, now recognize Masjid Yaseen as the American Markaz (headquarters) for Tablighi Jamaat in the United States.

From here, the group:

• Coordinates dawah (Islamic proselytization) activities across the U.S.
• Trains young men in Quran memorization (Hifz) and Sharia-based indoctrination
• Sends preaching groups (jamaats) door to door in American neighborhoods
• Launches new mosque projects in McKinney, Plano, Greenville, and Shreveport

These mosques — called “satellite centers” — follow a template: austere architecture, all-male religious schooling, no women’s programming, and 24/7 operation to accommodate “traveling missionaries.” It’s a quiet, disciplined Islamic expansion modeled after their global centers in Dewsbury (UK), Raiwind (Pakistan), and Bhopal (India).

Women in Tablighi Jamaat: Erased, Controlled, Silenced

Tablighi Jamaat’s treatment of women is systemically oppressive. Women are barred from leadership, denied public religious roles, and taught that their place is confined to the home under male guardianship. The group enforces strict gender segregation and encourages the full-body niqab or burqa. In Tablighi literature, women are expected to obey their husbands unconditionally, avoid leaving the house without permission, and focus solely on domestic duties and religious obedience. Critics have noted that this indoctrination starts early, with girls taught to value silence over self-expression and obedience over independence.

Even more disturbing, court records from a leadership dispute at Masjid Yaseen reveal that the mosque answers to the Tablighi Jamaat global shura in India, not to American law or oversight. This is a foreign-controlled religious operation on U.S. soil — and it is growing fast.

And behind that growth lies a river of Saudi money. Tablighi Jamaat has long enjoyed funding from Wahhabi institutions like the World Muslim League, which helped build the group’s European HQ in Dewsbury. This same influence is now being replicated in Texas, masked under charitable and educational fronts.

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Global Security Agencies Know the Truth — So Why Doesn’t Texas?

Tablighi Jamaat is not a moderate religious group. It is a transnational Islamic missionary movement rooted in the Deobandi school of thought—the same ideological foundation that produced the Taliban. The group advocates for the global implementation of Sharia law and the dismantling of all man-made legal systems. Its long-term goal is not peaceful coexistence, but religious domination through mass proselytization, identity reprogramming, and parallel society-building.

Numerous security agencies and counterterrorism analysts have documented the group’s role as a feeder network for jihadist organizations. In testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism in 2003, counterterrorism expert Dr. J. Michael Waller warned that Tablighi Jamaat was operating inside U.S. prisons and military bases, functioning as a stealth channel for Al-Qaeda recruiters and radical ideology. Waller emphasized that terrorist operatives had exploited Tablighi Jamaat as a cover for movement, recruitment, and indoctrination — often bypassing scrutiny by presenting as “non-political preachers.” He testified that the group exploits America’s constitutional protections while working to subvert them from within.

The U.S.-designated terrorist group Harakat-ul-Mujahideen was founded by Tablighi Jamaat members in Pakistan and continues to share personnel and religious ideology with the movement. Tablighi-affiliated individuals have participated in or supported terrorist attacks in Morocco, Algeria, France, the Netherlands, India, and the United States.

Among those radicalized through Tablighi Jamaat’s network are:

• Richard Reid, known as the “Shoe Bomber,” who attempted to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner.
• John Walker Lindh, the so-called “American Taliban,” who was captured fighting alongside al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.
• José Padilla was convicted for plotting to detonate a radioactive “dirty bomb” inside the United States.
• The Lackawanna Six, a sleeper cell of Yemeni-American men from New York who attended al-Qaeda training camps after exposure to Tablighi Jamaat missionaries.
• Kafeel Ahmed: An Indian engineer who participated in the 2007 Glasgow Airport attack in Scotland. Reports indicate that Ahmed had attended Tablighi Jamaat meetings, suggesting exposure to the group’s teachings prior to the attack.​
• Mohammed Siddique Khan: The leader of the 7/7 London bombings in 2005, which resulted in 52 civilian deaths. Khan had attended Tablighi Jamaat gatherings, raising concerns about the group’s role in his radicalization process.​
• Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB): This terrorist organization, responsible for numerous attacks in Bangladesh, has historical ties to Tablighi Jamaat. JMB has exploited TJ’s networks for recruitment and logistical support.​
• Waheed Zaman & Assad Sarwar – Co-conspirators in the 2006 transatlantic airline bomb plot (UK). Both regularly attended Tablighi Jamaat study circles and preaching camps.
• Zacarias Moussaoui – Known as the “20th hijacker” in the 9/11 plot. French intelligence tied him to Tablighi Jamaat circles in France before his deeper Al-Qaeda involvement.
• Djamel Beghal – Mastermind behind the 2001 U.S. Embassy bomb plot in Paris. Beghal and his radical network used TJ gatherings to recruit and train members, many of whom later carried out the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
• Hervé Djamel Loiseau – A French convert to Islam who died in Tora Bora fighting for Al-Qaeda. French investigators traced his Islamic indoctrination to Tablighi Jamaat events.
• Maroof Ahmed Mirza – Leader of a 14-member Barcelona terror cell (2008) that was formally affiliated with Tablighi Jamaat. His group plotted suicide bombings in the city’s metro system and had ties to Pakistan.
• Syed Rizwan Farook & Tashfeen Malik – The perpetrators of the 2015 San Bernardino mass shooting, which killed 14 people and wounded 22, were reportedly associated with a mosque frequented by Tablighi Jamaat preachers. Congressional testimony revealed that DHS whistleblower Philip Haney had identified links between Farook’s network and Tablighi Jamaat before the attack but was ordered to shut down the investigation—an act he claimed prevented authorities from exposing the plot in advance.

In 2003, the FBI’s Deputy Chief of Counterterrorism testified before Congress that al-Qaeda had used Tablighi Jamaat “for recruiting now and in the past.”

France has prosecuted dozens of individuals linked to the group in connection with jihadist plots. Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Russia, and Saudi Arabia—despite its own deep ties to Wahhabi Islam—have all banned Tablighi Jamaat as a threat to public security. In 2021, Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Islamic Affairs labeled the group “a danger to society” and “a gateway to terrorism.”

Other incidents around the world reinforce the group’s ties to violence. In Morocco, over 60 members of a Tablighi-affiliated faction were prosecuted for the 2003 Casablanca synagogue bombings. In Algeria, TJ-linked preachers were instrumental in launching the Islamic Salvation Front, whose radical rhetoric helped plunge the country into a bloody civil war. In India, TJ members were implicated in the infamous Godhra train burning, in which 59 Hindu pilgrims were killed—an Islamic attack that sparked widespread communal riots.

Despite this extensive track record, the group has not been banned or even meaningfully scrutinized in the United States. On the contrary, it has established what is believed to be its national headquarters in Garland, Texas, with a growing network of satellite mosques and missionary training centers.

The refusal of U.S. federal agencies to designate or investigate Tablighi Jamaat as a foreign-influenced extremist entity represents one of the most glaring national security oversights since 9/11.

While other nations acted to defend themselves, Texas was left exposed—not because the threat was unknown, but because no one had the political will to sound the alarm.

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Britain Tried to Warn Us — But Texas Didn’t Listen

What’s now entrenched in Garland, Texas, is not unprecedented — it’s a dangerous blueprint already attempted in the UK. And unlike Britain, where Tablighi Jamaat’s mega-mosque plans were defeated after years of public resistance, Texas leaders failed to recognize the warning signs — and handed the group a victory.

For more than 15 years, Tablighi Jamaat fought to build a Saudi-funded mega-mosque in East London, just blocks from the Olympic Stadium. The proposed complex would have housed over 9,000 worshippers, along with apartments for foreign clerics, a sprawling Islamic library, minarets, and even sports facilities. It was nothing short of an Islamic city within a city — designed to project dominance, not serve a local need.

Local officials, including many Muslims, sounded the alarm: this wasn’t about prayer — it was a Trojan Horse for a hardline Islamic enclave, segregating women, discouraging integration, and promoting a rigid Deobandi-Wahhabi ideology. British Muslim Tehmina Kazi testified that TJ forced women into purdah (seclusion), required full body coverings, and passed down these isolationist values to children, ensuring multi-generational non-integration.

But when Kazi prepared to testify again in 2014, she was suddenly silenced by pressure and intimidation from mosque supporters. Pro-mega-mosque activists — backed by well-connected PR operatives — harassed her during a holiday abroad, ultimately coercing her withdrawal. As one insider put it, “Powerful Muslim men closed ranks to isolate a winsome young woman.”

Despite the enormous pressure campaign, the UK government rejected the project, citing its incompatibility with the local community, overwhelming scale, foreign influence, and lack of benefit to residents.

But here in America? We failed.

While British officials ultimately acted to stop the spread of this supremacist ideology, Texas leaders stood down. Tablighi Jamaat quietly established its American headquarters in Garland, Texas — not just with local approval, but with no meaningful oversight, no public resistance, and no state-level scrutiny.

Now, Masjid Yaseen and its expanding network of satellite mosques are doing exactly what they couldn’t do in Britain: embedding, expanding, and radicalizing — all under the radar.

The warning was clear. The precedent was known. Texas just didn’t listen.

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The Dawah Trojan Horse: Conquest by Conversion and Control

Tablighi Jamaat doesn’t scream “Allahu Akbar” and fly planes into buildings. Instead, it preaches quiet conquest. Its playbook is simple:

• Target disaffected or newly converted Muslims (especially in black American communities and prisons).
• Rewire their identities: Replace American civic values with global Islamic loyalty.
• Send them on 40-day, 4-month, or even year-long preaching missions to intensify brainwashing.
• Introduce them to foreign networks — including in Pakistan, where recruiters from terror outfits approach them directly (as documented by the Middle East Forum and others).
• Use their credentials to funnel money, move people, and legitimize radical networks.

This is how jihadist terror cells grow — under the radar, cloaked in religious garb, using the “dawah” cover provided by groups like Tablighi Jamaat.

This model has been tragically effective in U.S. prisons. By the mid-1990s, up to 20% of inmates identified as Muslim, with 30,000 converting annually — many under Tablighi or Wahhabi influence. This captive audience, disconnected from society and hungry for purpose, is a perfect breeding ground for radical Islamic indoctrination.

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Texas as a Launchpad for Radicalization? It’s Already Happening

We’ve already seen how this story plays out:

• Malik Faisal Akram, the 2022 Texas synagogue hostage-taker, was reported to be a longtime member of Tablighi Jamaat, according to Indian and UK media outlets. He was known to attend Tablighi-linked mosques in Blackburn, England, and followed the group’s missionary path before flying to Texas to carry out the attack.
• His link to Tablighi Jamaat is especially concerning given that British intelligence services have previously described the group as a “conveyor belt to terrorism.”
• Radical elements in Houston, DFW, and Plano now host ijtema (mass gatherings), attracting thousands of men from out of state and abroad — with zero transparency.
• Preachers trained at Masjid Yaseen and Houston’s Madrasah Islamiah — a seminary aligned with the Deobandi movement that shares Tablighi Jamaat’s ideological roots — are now circulating across the South, indoctrinating young Muslim men with Salafi-Deobandi ideology that explicitly rejects American democracy, freedom of religion, and gender equality.
• Masjid Yaseen in Garland is the operational hub of Tablighi Jamaat in the U.S. Madrasah Islamiah in Houston is the ideological and educational feeder institution.

Understanding Salafi and Deobandi: Different Origins, Same Objective

While Salafism and Deobandism come from different historical and geographic roots — Salafism from the Arabian Peninsula and Deobandism from South Asia — both movements share a rigidly literalist interpretation of Islam and a rejection of Western political systems, pluralism, and secular law.

Salafis follow the teachings of early Islamic scholars and emphasize a return to the practices of the “salaf” (the first three generations of Muslims). The ideology is most closely associated with Wahhabism, the dominant religious doctrine in Saudi Arabia.

Deobandis, on the other hand, emerged from colonial India in the 19th century, rooted in opposition to British rule and influenced by Hanafi jurisprudence. But like Salafis, Deobandis reject democracy, denounce religious tolerance, and aim for an Islamic state governed solely by Sharia.

Though doctrinal differences exist, both camps converge in their disdain for Western civilization, their goal of Islamic supremacy, and their use of missionary outreach (dawah) to build parallel societies. In practice, Salafi and Deobandi preachers often operate in the same ecosystems — especially in prisons, madrassas, and mosques like Masjid Yaseen.

This is not integration — it is parallel society-building with a supremacist worldview.

One Pakistani Tablighi sympathizer even wrote that the goal of black Muslim converts was to “offset the venal influence of the India-Israel lobby” and shift U.S. foreign policy in favor of Islam.”

Another imam with ties to Tablighi Jamaat boasted that “if all the Afro-American brothers and sisters become Muslims, we can change the political landscape of America.”

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What Texas Must Do Now: Policy, Oversight, and Public Pressure

• Investigate Masjid Yaseen’s foreign ties: Demand an audit of financial records, funding origins, and legal affiliations with the Tablighi Jamaat shura in India.
• Demand full transparency from religious nonprofits: Require any organization receiving foreign funding to publicly disclose donors and activities, including mosque expansion projects.
• End local political complacency: Call on Texas state representatives, mayors, and local law enforcement to speak out and take action — or face electoral consequences.
• Scrutinize Islamic missionary schools and boarding programs: Ensure compliance with child protection, curriculum standards, and ideological transparency.
• Expose the national security blind spot: Pressure the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI to release assessments of Tablighi Jamaat’s presence and activity in the U.S.
• Educate the public: Launch campaigns to raise awareness about the group’s tactics, goals, and history — especially in vulnerable communities such as prisons and inner cities.
• Ban foreign-controlled religious headquarters: Propose legislation preventing religious centers from being overseen by international shuras or ideological councils.

This Is Texas’ Wake-Up Call

Tablighi Jamaat is not just another religious group — it is the ideological scaffolding for a global Islamic order that seeks to replace our Constitution with Sharia. While other nations — including Russia, France, Saudi Arabia, and India — have recognized and rejected this threat, Texas has welcomed it with silence and open doors.

This is not about freedom of worship — it is about a foreign movement using that freedom to build parallel societies that reject American law, reject integration, and ultimately reject the legitimacy of the state itself.

Every mosque linked to this movement, every missionary trained in Garland, and every indoctrination school opened in our backyard chips away at the foundation of Western civilization.

This is no longer a question of tolerance, if indeed it ever was. It is a question of survival.

If Texas — the proudest, fiercest symbol of American grit — cannot stand up to a foreign ideological invasion on its own soil, then what chance does the rest of the United States have?

Masjid Yaseen is not just a mosque. It is a headquarters. A hub. A launching pad.

The time for silence is over.