Texas American Muslim University Opens in Dallas
A new university has opened in the Dallas suburbs, calling itself the first in the United States to offer STEM degree programs that include required Islamic Studies. Texas American Muslim University, known as TexAM University at Dallas and run by the nonprofit Texas American Institute for Technology at Dallas, is now open in Richardson and is accepting applications for Spring 2026.
The university says its mission is to blend modern technology with Islamic beliefs. It aims to give students technical skills while supporting Islamic values. The motto is to build a strong community through quality education. Graduates are prepared for roles in digital innovation, Islamic finance, digital services, and religious education in a tech-focused world. About 30 percent of the coursework is mandatory Islamic Studies, so Islamic teachings and ethics are part of every technical subject, including AI, cybersecurity, and health informatics.
The university offers degrees in high-demand areas. Students can earn bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, and Health Informatics. There is also an online master’s program. Certificate courses cover topics like Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Islamic Ethics in Artificial Intelligence, Introduction to Cybersecurity, the U.S. Healthcare System, and Introduction to Islamic Finance.
Notable faculty include Prof. Dr. Toseef Azid for Islamic Finance, Adjunct Prof. Imran Rasheed for Cybersecurity, Prof. Dr. Javaid Ajmal for Health Informatics, and Prof. Dr. Muazzam Khattak for AI ethics. Classes are offered through a mix of live and online formats.
Admissions for Spring 2026 are now open. The university is offering special introductory pricing to attract early students, with some three-credit courses costing as little as $99. It also partners with donors to cover tuition and fees for students from lower-income families. There is a special program for Pakistani students that demonstrates the university’s international focus. The campus is located at 1100 E. Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas 75081.
The university’s public materials do not clearly state its accreditation status. TexAM is described as a faith-based school and works with local community facilities. Its events include iftar gatherings and donation drives.
This development should set off alarm bells for Texas families, policymakers, and national security observers. The core concern is that by embedding mandatory Islamic Studies as 30 percent of a STEM curriculum, TexAM creates an institutional framework that promotes Islamic ethics within technical education.
The main argument is that this model stimulates a parallel system that could undermine integration with American secular norms. The university promotes this fusion as a strength, highlighting values such as risk-sharing and the prohibition of riba in finance, and supporting the cultivation of “future Muslim leaders.”
However, Britain’s experiences with the consequences of parallel societies show the potential dangers: when education and community structures are deeply driven by religious ideology, societal integration may falter, and vulnerabilities can emerge.
Texas already faces similar experiments, such as EPIC City proposals and the expansion of faith-centric enclaves. Allowing a university to train tech professionals in an explicitly Islamic ethical framework risks producing graduates whose main loyalty is to Sharia-derived values instead of the U.S. Constitution.
This is especially critical in disciplines like cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and healthcare data. Questions about foreign funding, influence from international Islamic networks, and H-1B pipelines for Pakistani recruits add to this concern.
The university’s leaders are Dr. Ghulam M. Chaudhry (President), Dr. Saleha Suleman (Vice President of Admissions and International Affairs), and Shahid A. Bajwa (CEO and “Lead Dreamer” of the Texas American Technologies Foundation). Their stated goal is to build a community of Muslim professionals based on Islamic teachings. Some observers say that, with growing worries about foreign influence and radicalization, this approach could affect community unity, assimilation, and national sovereignty.
Are the faculty and admin a reflection of the coming student body - all men? Is someone going to challenge this in court?
As enrollment builds for Spring 2026, materials on the university’s sites emphasize the ambition: to become a global leader in education-driven innovation yet keeping Islamic principles at the center.
The primary test will be whether graduates assimilate into Texas’s broader economy and civic culture, or whether this approach accelerates the fragmentation of American higher education.
State officials and lawmakers must seek full transparency about curriculum and funding, accepting the main argument: ignoring recent international warnings about religious parallel societies could have serious repercussions.
Arizona: Muslim teen gets 21 months prison for plotting jihad massacre at Phoenix Pride parade
A hadith depicts Muhammad specifying the punishment for homosexual activity: “The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, ‘Whoever you find doing the action of the people of Loot, execute the one who does it and the one to whom it is done.’” (Sunan Abu Dawud 4462)
Teen sentenced after planning ISIS-inspired attack on Phoenix Pride parade
by Brian Petersheim Jr. and Brandy Beard, WYMT, May 2, 2026:
PHOENIX (AZFamily/Gray News) – A teen convicted of planning an ISIS-inspired terror attack on an Arizona pride parade will spend just under two years in prison, a judge ruled.
Marvin Aneer Jalo was 17 when he was arrested in October 2024 at the start of Phoenix LGBTQ+ Pride festivities. Authorities said he planned to use an explosive drone during the parade, scheduled for two days after his arrest.
Jalo, now 18, pleaded guilty April 3, 2026, to two counts of terroristic threats. He was sentenced April 29 to 1.75 years in prison, with credit for 599 days served.
When Jalo was arrested, he was originally charged as an adult with felony terrorism and conspiracy.
Investigators said he used chat rooms in 2023 with people he described as extremists. At one point, authorities said he posted that they could “bomb 2024 Pride Parade and take over USA.”
Yeah, because America is run from the Phoenix Pride Parade, everyone knows that, right? RIGHT? Good grief!
He was also accused of ordering chemicals needed to make an explosive through Amazon….
A Slap on the Wrist for the Muslim Responsible for the Death of a Jew in California
In November 2023, in a suburb of Los Angeles, a few weeks after the Hamas attack in Israel, there were dueling demonstrations, with some demonstrators denouncing Hamas and others supporting the Hamas attack on October 7. At one point, a Palestinian in the crowd denouncing Israel and praising Hamas, Loay Abdel Fattah Alnaji, bashed a megaphone on the head of a 69-year-old Jewish man, Paul Kessler, who was demonstrating for Israel. The elderly Kessler fell backward, hitting his head on the sidewalk, and later died of his injuries. The man responsible for his death was charged with involuntary manslaughter. Now a plea deal has been reached, and both Jewish groups, and the prosecutors, have expressed their outrage at what amounts to a slap on the wrist. More on this hideous outcome can be found here:
Jewish leaders lament ‘woefully inadequate’ sentence of California man who killed Jewish activist
by Grace Gilson, JTA, May 8, 2026:
…a plea deal reached Tuesday… is expected to spare the man charged with causing the 2023 death of Jewish protester Paul Kessler from being sent to prison. Instead, Loay Abdel Fattah Alnaji would face no more than a year in county jail.
Alnaji, 53, of Moorpark, California, admitted to hitting Kessler, a 69-year-old Jewish pro-Israel activist, in the head with a megaphone during dueling pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel demonstrations in a Los Angeles suburb in November 2023.
Kessler later died of his injuries, and his death became the first tied to demonstrations surrounding the war in Gaza in the United States.
On Tuesday, Alnaji pleaded guilty to all charges related to Kessler’s death, including felony involuntary manslaughter and felony battery causing serious bodily injury, after initially pleading not guilty.
While the maximum sentence for his charges is four years in state prison, the court indicated that, as a result of the guilty plea, it is likely to place Alnaji on formal probation with no more than 365 days in county jail. A county jail sentence is generally considered less severe than time in state prison and is served locally, often with possibilities for work release, electronic monitoring or early release….
Alnaji may, if given the one-year jail sentence, be let out for work release, or let out with electronic monitoring, or even given early release from an already preposterously short sentence. Who knows? He may be out of prison in a few months, if he exhibits “good behavior.”
Alnaji, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, will only go to a jail, not a prison, where conditions are much harsher. Furthermore, he will serve at most a year, and probably a good deal less. And this for smashing a heavy object on the head of an elderly man who was quietly protesting, causing his death.
Rabbi Noah Farkas, the president and chief executive of the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles, told JTA in a statement that Kessler’s death carried deep significance because “not only was he the first Jew to die during the Israel-Hamas protest movement after October 7th, but he did so while peacefully supporting his people.”
Farkas said he, too, wished Alnaji would be penalized more harshly, but that he saw a benefit in the case reaching a conclusion.
“We mourn his loss and welcome the admission of guilt for this heinous crime,” Farkas said about Kessler. “While we would have liked a harsher sentence that better reflects the pain of [the] Kessler family, we respect the legal process. Our hope is that today’s news helps bring closure to his family and gives our community the ability to demonstrate safely.”
Rabbi Farkas is glad because this verdict brings “closure”? Really? It is not “closure,” but a source of permanent anguish to the Kessler family, and to all those who thought justice would be done but were disabused of that hope when the verdict for this Alnaji, convicted of “involuntary manslaughter,” was announced. One wonders what would have been the result if the roles had been reversed, and a Jewish demonstrator had smashed a Muslim demonstrator on the head with a megaphone, leading to his hitting his head on the pavement and dying. I don’t think that he would get off with at most a year in a county jail, with possible early release. I think that Muslims would have organized giant demonstrations outside the courthouse, demanding that “the Zionist killer,” as they would call him, be given“at least ten years in prison for his Islamophobic and hateful murder of an innocent Muslim.”
Three Muslims caught trying to smuggle over 80 weapons, including rifles and stolen guns, into Canada
Malik Bromfield sounds like the name of a convert to Islam. When he converted, those around him were likely too besotted with multiculturalism and inoculated with fear of “Islamophobia” to be concerned. And now he has been caught, along with two other Muslims, attempting to smuggle weapons into Canada. What did they plan to do with them?
“During the interview, Ali consented to a roadside search of his person, during which a trooper recovered an expired Pakistani National Driving Permit issued to an Afghan national in another name concealed in Ali’s buttocks.” This may have been a simple drug-related operation, but the Afghan/Pakistani connection is interesting, at very least.
Three Men Charged With Attempted Smuggling Of 89 Firearms
Justice Department, May 8, 2026:
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, Assistant Director in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), James C. Barnacle, Jr., and Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF”), Bryan DiGirolamo, announced today the arrest of MALIK BROMFIELD, FAIZAN ALI, and KAMAL SALMAN, who are charged with multiple offenses relating to the transporting of 89 firearms, including at least 17 that were reported stolen, and attempting to smuggle those firearms to Canada. BROMFIELD, ALI, and SALMAN were presented before U.S. Magistrate Judge Judith C. McCarthy in White Plains federal court, and detained.
“As alleged, Malik Bromfield, Faizan Ali, and Kamal Salman were caught transporting more than 80 guns, including short-barreled rifles and stolen firearms, to smuggle them out of the country,” said U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton. “It is critically important to New Yorkers and Americans to keep illegal weapons out of the hands of criminal actors. The trafficking of dangerous weapons will be relentlessly pursued by this Office.”
“These three defendants, including two foreign nationals, allegedly endangered our communities as they attempted to smuggle 89 firearms—17 of which were stolen—into Canada,” said FBI Assistant Director in Charge James C. Barnacle, Jr. “The FBI is committed to working with our federal and state law enforcement partners to take illegal guns off our streets.”…
On or about May 7, 2026, personnel with the New York State Police (“NYSP”) initiated a traffic stop of a white Ford Explorer (the “Subject Vehicle”) after observing the vehicle commit traffic violations while driving on or near State Route 90. Upon approaching the Subject Vehicle, troopers encountered BROMFIELD, ALI, and SALMAN. After asking the occupants to exit the vehicle, the troopers observed that the occupants gave inconsistent and evasive accounts in response to NYSP questioning. During the interview, ALI consented to a roadside search of his person, during which a trooper recovered an expired Pakistani National Driving Permit issued to an Afghan national in another name concealed in ALI’s buttocks.An NYSP canine conducted a sweep of the exterior of the Subject Vehicle and alerted to the potential presence of narcotics. During a preliminary search of the Subject Vehicle, the troopers observed an unusually heavy suitcase, which was found to contain a large cache of firearms…
