Researchers proved AI has deleted every reason universities exist.

Harvard University ran a controlled experiment pitting a custom AI against their own top-tier classrooms.

And the results are going to collapse the higher education bubble.

They took 194 undergraduates and split them up.

One group learned physics in one of Harvard’s best hands-on, active-learning physical classrooms. Group work. Instructor support. The premium university experience.

The other group went home and learned the exact same material with an AI tutor.

The AI didn’t just win. It embarrassed the institution.

Students using the AI learned more than twice as much as the students in the elite Harvard classroom.

They scored 30% higher on the final assessment.

And they did it in less time.

Let that sink in.

A piece of software sitting on a laptop outperformed a world-class faculty in one of the most elite learning environments on Earth.

Universities have always justified their exorbitant tuition with two things: access to elite knowledge and the physical classroom experience.

This study just proved both of those moats are gone.

When software can teach you complex physics twice as well as a $60,000-a-year institution, the math of higher education breaks permanently.

The AI didn’t just give the students answers. It used strict pedagogical guardrails. It guided. It questioned. It forced the students to do the cognitive work.

It offered perfect, one-to-one tutoring, personalized to the exact moment a student misunderstood a concept.

That level of attention is mathematically impossible to scale in a physical lecture hall.

For a thousand years, the university was the only place to get a premium education.

Now, it’s the bottleneck.

If AI can double your learning speed for a fraction of the cost, what exactly are students taking on decades of debt to pay for?

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By Jon Brown, Christian Post Reporter

A friend of C.S. Lewis’ stepson claimed this week that members of the late author’s family are “very upset” by Meryl Streep’s casting as Aslan in Netflix’s upcoming Narnia adaptation and are attempting to “regain control” of the company that manages the literary and media rights to Lewis’ works.

“They’re very concerned about it, because they’re worried that it’s going to, you know, destroy the brand,” Movieguide founder Dr. Ted Baehr told CBN News, noting that Lewis’ 80-year-old stepson, Douglas Gresham, is godfather to his daughter-in-law.

Baehr also served as president of the Episcopal Radio and Television Foundation, which produced the animated version of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe on CBS in 1979.

Confirmation from director Greta Gerwig last week that Streep was cast to voice Aslan in The Magician’s Nephew prompted a torrent of negative reaction from many Christian fans, some of whom suggested that gender-swapping the Christ-like lion is an affront to the classic Christian allegory.

Baehr stopped short of offering details on his claim that the Gresham family are attempting to take back the reins of The C.S. Lewis Company, which closed a multi-year deal with Netflix in 2018 to develop new series and film projects based on The Chronicles of Narnia.

“They did a big campaign. They’re trying to regain control of The C.S. Lewis Company in order that—” Baehr said before cutting himself off. “The problem is, and this happens quite often — no, I shouldn’t tell you that. But anyway, things happen.”

Baehr, who ensured that Aslan remained an uncompromised allegory for Jesus Christ in the 1979 adaptation, explained that the casting of a female actor to portray Aslan presents “lots of issues” that extend beyond merely upsetting fans.

“One, it’s beloved; one, it’s going to destroy the brand. But there’s a deeper issue, which is the theological issue,” he said, noting the serious theological implications of tinkering with the gender identity of Aslan — a character Lewis described as the incarnation of Christ in a world like Narnia.

“Because God the Father, and Jesus the Son and the Holy Spirit and, of course, the whole process leads toward The Last Battle, and The Last Battle represents Jesus in Heaven,” he said, referring to the last book in the Narnia series. “If God is a Father, he is not Meryl Streep pretending to be a father. He’s not trans. He’s the Father, he’s our Father. He loves us, He adopts us.”

The Last Battle, which reflects Lewis’ eschatology and views on modern apostasy, tells the story of an old, manipulative ape named Shift convincing a gullible donkey named Puzzle to masquerade as Aslan by wearing the skin suit of a lion. Shift deceives many of the talking animals of Narnia into following the false, ultimately demonic Aslan named “Tashlan,” which is the name some critics on social media have assigned to Streep’s version of the character.

Baehr noted that The Magician’s Nephew was intended as the Genesis of Narnia, and that the fatherhood of God in creating the world is a crucial part of the story.

“You have to have God as a Father. You can’t have God being voiced as a woman. This is not theologically correct,” said Baehr, who placed director Greta Gerwig’s reinterpretation of Narnia in the context of other directors inserting ideology into adaptations of classic literature, such as Christopher Nolan’s recent version of The Odyssey.

Baehr, who said he spoke with Gerwig after she agreed to direct The Magician’s Nephew, said while he believes the director “has a heart for God,” he questions whether she has the biblical worldview to faithfully pull off the adaptation.

“I don’t want to classify her in any category, but if you look at [Gerwig’s] ‘Barbie’ or whatever, it’s much more feminist. There’s a feminist undertone. It’s not a biblical portrait of relationships. And I think you need to see the biblical portrait,” he said of Gerwig.

Gerwig, who grew up as a Unitarian Universalist, has said she envisions her adaptation of The Magician’s Nephew to be “a rock opera,” claiming, “David Bowie saved my life. Paul McCartney saved my life. David Gilmour saved my life. Pete Townshend saved my life. Jimmy Page, Robert Plant. … Narnia is literally a world made out of music. It is a world sung to life by Aslan.”

In a 2018 interview, Gerwig said she feels “uncomfortable around ‘Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior stuff,’ I find that creepy, but I go to church every Sunday.” She claimed she would attend multiple services across different denominations on the same day, but noted she appreciates prayers to the Virgin Mary because “it feels like this ‘God the Father’ thing is a bit alienating for me.”

Yes, the gas prices are high, but I live in California, where gas prices are always going to be higher than in the rest of the country. I don’t blame President Trump, nor do I blame the conflict in Iran. If Iran wasn’t trying to blow us up in a nuclear holocaust, then there would have been no reason for the United States to attack them! California shut down two refineries, and they add taxes and fees on top of more taxes and fees. Don’t scream at Trump, blue state residents. Blame your own incompetent state governments!

Am I happy about the inflation? No. Three percent inflation is bad. This is a problem of federal overspending, and I don’t think that President Trump’s $5,000 dividend proposal is any good. If he’s joking, it’s still not a great idea. There’s a better way to give us money: let us keep what we already earn. Congress can cut a trillion and a half out of the budget, and then give all of the taxpaying Americans a $5,000 rebate from our 2026 tax returns.

Affordability, housing costs, wars and rumors of wars: the doomers, the blackpillers, the corporate media, the Democrats and their academic acolytes, all want us to focus on what is wrong or bad. They want their communist pals to get elected up and down the ticket this November.

We must not let some setbacks distract us from the great work that Trump and team have accomplished.

President Trump is doing so much good that I can let the little stuff go. The fact that we have illegal aliens fleeing our country, that visa overstays are getting kicked out, that immigrants who came in legally but caused nothing but trouble are being deported as well, and the fact that President Trump is standing tall and fighting for America makes me so proud to support him and the Republican ticket going into Election 2026.

I’m sick and tired of listening to Americans b***h and moan about how much the gas is. Maybe they should talk to someone who drove their first car in the 1970s, when the OPEC-driven gas shortages were so acute that people could only go to gas stations depending on certain days and whether they had a number or a letter at the end of their license plate. President Trump has been playing 4-D chess when it comes to ensuring energy dominance and stability, protecting American prestige, securing our interests, and advancing our future. Trump took out Venezuelan narco-dictator Nicolas Maduro, then scored an excellent oil deal with the new leadership of the Latin American Communist hellhole, soon to be freed to a republic once again. Trump has put Cuba on its heels and forced it to its knees. Mexico is no longer bailing out bad actors in the Caribbean and helping us defeat the drug cartels, too.

President Trump gave a great presentation of American greatness at the UN last week. I normally don’t watch the UN speeches, but I listened to everything he said on September 23, 2026, and I applaud everything. He stood up to Iran — to its face; he denounced Cuba, and the communist delegation saved face by walking out in shame; he stood up for American sovereignty once again, and he asserted clearly that there is no right to illegal immigration, but there is a right for nations to assert their sovereignty.

I voted for all of this. I loved that he’s doubling down on why we elected him in 2024, and he’s not allowing some bad polling or nasty press to stop him from doing what is best.

The general public, including the conservative commentary class, is not paying enough attention to the massive rightward shift overtaking Latin America. For the first time in decades, the American President enjoys considerable, consummate allies at the UN from throughout the Americas. From Argentina to Ecuador, and now including a traditional Catholic president of Colombia openly allying with us and fighting transnational drug cartels, we have allies helping us in our fight to protect our country, and you can bet your bottom dollar (or peso) that they’re stopping the flow of mass immigration to our country. Canada is the only country not getting along with us right now, but that will change soon.

Look at the major win that President Trump scored with Greenland! We get all of the power, we get to call the shots, we get to maintain our military presence, and we cut off hostile nations both to the west and to the NATO alliance. That means China and Russia don’t get to call dibs or take advantage of the mineral deposits in Greenland. Frankly, I would have had no problem incorporating that massive territory into the American sphere as a commonwealth along with Puerto Rico or Guam. But President Trump is making the best deals to do what will serve our country for the long term.

Also at the UN, the conservative president of Paraguay, after ending sex mutilation of minors in his country, declared that Latin America must stop depending on the United States to do all the work for them. Have we not been praying for this day? The whole world has viewed the United States as the Battered Women’s Shelter of the World or the Backup Plan for every failed State and for the voters in these countries who insisted on voting for those failed politicians. Sovereign countries around the world are taking responsibility for their defense, their sovereignty, their culture, and their future. WINNING!

I voted for all of this. No matter the domestic disturbances or disappointments that we face stateside, we should not ignore the fact that Trump 2.0 far exceeds not just his first term, but the terms of all the Republican and certainly Democratic presidents who have governed our country since the end of World War II.

Because of this incredible success at the domestic level, the cleaning out of the federal government, the ending of mass immigration, the increase in respect and sovereignty for our country, plus the fact that wages are rising and poverty has plummeted across the nation, I have no problem voting for the Republican ticket up and down the ballot.

We shouldn’t just be motivated by what makes us glad, but we need to pay attention to what we’re running against. From a twinky, flimsy, fake Christian playing pastor running against an effective attorney general in Texas, to an accomplished former congressman running against a pro-jihad militant in Michigan, we’ve got crazy Communists gunning for power all over the country. I don’t care how high your gas bills may be; it will be nothing compared to the energy crisis and domestic destruction if communist Democrats take the levers of power in Congress and in state legislatures across the country.

Don’t worry about high gas prices now. The war will end. Right now, we must choose American success and continued sovereignty, or communist failure. Election 2026 is the most important election yet. Don’t sit out the vote and pout. Trump is doing great, and our country is improving. I’m going to make phone calls for candidates in California and abroad. You should as well.

Arthur Schaper, Townhall

Leftists claim that without government control, AI will kill billions. We’re supposed to believe that Bill Gates, a sociopath who openly seeks to use his wealth to diminish the human population, really has our best interests at heart when he calls for a government takeover of AI. AI is deadly because of hackers, they claim. So by limiting the ability of non-criminals to use AI, we’re supposed to believe that criminals won’t get around the laws. Even though that’s what criminals do. Just like gun control.

People who would never seek to harm others using AI will be kept from using it. Lawbreakers who intend to harm others while using AI will continue to use it. Socialists and Communists just want government in charge of the flow of information. Government (especially when influenced by destructive villains like Bill Gates) is a much greater threat to life than technology ever could be.

A quote from Cicero comes to mind, as America flirts with dictatorship like never before:

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

It seems that the Democrats have already settled on a candidate for the ’28 presidential contest. It’s always a good idea to get ahead of the game, to make your arrangements early so as to guarantee a smooth, simple process and to ensure that all the pressure is on the opposition. At least that’s what you might think until you realize that the candidate is… Kamala Harris.

This is one of those things that causes you to stare off into space and consider whether you’ve slipped through a transdimensional portal and ended up in an alternate timeline where humans evolved from chipmunks.  

Harris gave a podcast interview on BigBoyTV that made it absolutely clear that she’s running, and that she has the support of… well, whoever is actually at the wheel of the Demotanic at the moment. Profound observations, attacks on Trump, coy statements about 2028, stale Dem talking points, attacks on Trump, word salads, attacks on Trump… She’s got ‘em all. Or, at least as much as could be expected from Joe Biden’s VP.  (The link above is an hour and 35 minutes long. No, I am not kidding. Since I am well known for my kindness and sense of mercy, here’s a much shorter highlights – I think that’s the technical term – version from Megyn Kelly, who subheaded it “What’s She Talking About?)

So let’s take a look at the record. Kamala Harris, after an absolutely undistinguished term as VP (remember her stint as “border czar”?) was dumped on the Democrats by SloJoe himself (or perhaps Jill, since it’s questionable that Joe had any idea who his VP was) as a blatant act of sabotage in revenge for the July ‘24 debate ambush. She then, with three months to campaign, dawdled for weeks before getting into gear. Over the next two months, she spent $1.25 billion, on what remains unclear two years later. She stumbled through a truncated campaign, giggling and tittering, showing no aptitude for speechmaking, no charisma, no ability to move a crowd, evidently under the impression that being a “black woman” (a debatable claim in itself) would put her over the top. Her one contribution to the art of campaigning was the introduction of glossolalia as an electoral tool.

Post-election, it was even worse. Kamala likes to take a drink, and in her first media appearances, she was obviously half in the bag. I would assume that she spent some time in a clinic since then.  

She was, quite simply, the worst candidate in modern American political history.

So naturally, the Democrats, as currently constituted, want her for ’28.

To my mind, the high point of the podcast occurs when she addresses a vase of flowers while rambling about algorithms. The “algorithms,” see, want you to look at the yellow flowers, but what if you want to see a purple flower? (Apparently, this is an attempt to blame her ’24 performance on social media. Which is a little odd, since, prior to the arrival of Elon the Magnificent, the Dems had social media sewed up, and this didn’t bother her or anybody else at the time.)

I confess I don’t know what to make of this. As a wild guess, I would surmise that this is a DNC effort to get somebody in place before the DSA can come up with a former ISIS member to run in the primaries. With Newsom evidently bowing out, Shapiro being Jewish and thus unacceptable to the Islamists and anti-Semites that now comprise the Democrat coalition, and nobody else even vaguely compelling on the horizon, it does make sense in a dull-normal kind of way.

I just hope they remember to lock up the bottles.

J. R. Dunn, American Thinker

byDavid Catron

Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may use the SAVE (Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements) database for voter-verification purposes. Pursuant to an executive order issued by President Trump last March, about half of the nation’s 50 states have been accessing the database to assure that their voter rolls contain only American citizens living within their jurisdictions. In June, however, Biden-appointed District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan ruled that it was unconstitutional for the DHS to share the database with states. Friday’s SCOTUS ruling granted the Trump DOJ’s request for a stay. And Justice  Jackson was not pleased. AmericanCulture Books

She responded with a 12-page dissent that accused the Court’s majority of misreading both Supreme Court precedent and U.S. statutes by allowing the DHS and the White House to unilaterally expand the executive branch’s authority. Jackson’s dissent was full of cheap shots at the majority and infantile analogies such as the following: “[I]n balancing the equities, the majority only looks at one side of the scale — the judicial equivalent of expecting a seesaw with weight applied on only one side to work properly.” This was meant to refute the majority’s opinion that the judge’s ruling “inhibits the Federal Government’s efforts to assist state and local agencies in the proper administration of the midterm elections.”

Appointed by former President Biden in 2022, Justice Jackson is the Supreme Court’s youngest and least experienced member. Evidently, it has never occurred to her that this calls for a certain amount of humility. Instead, she has emerged as one of the most vocal critics of its practices and her more seasoned colleagues — in written opinions as well as public speeches. Indeed, the night before the Court’s latest ruling was released, she spoke at the University of the District of Columbia’s law school where she sharply criticized the manner in which the Court manages its emergency docket. She had the audacity to advise her fellow justices to use the emergency docket less often. The New York Times reports that she added the following remarks:

“If we’re not careful, the emergency docket can and will become an end run around the standard review process, a special avenue that certain privileged litigants can use selectively,” Justice Jackson said. “Why is it that one party should get a fast pass to the Supreme Court of the United States when so many other parties are queued up, waiting patiently for the  court’s attention?”

The “privileged litigant” she meant was, of course, President Trump. She knows perfectly well that his Justice Department has been forced to appeal to the Court via the emergency docket because Democrat-appointed activist judges have been engaged in a judicial insurrection against the Trump administration. In case after case, lower court judges handed down nationwide injunctions against various Trump policies despite lacking any legal jurisdiction to do so. Eventually, this problem got so out of hand that the Supreme Court had to intervene. First, the Court granted the administration partial stays on a number of these injunctions because they exceeded the authority of the lower  courts. Then it ruled on Trump v. CASA: ExecutiveBranch

On June 27, 2025, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Trump v. CASA, Inc., a trio of consolidated cases in which the Court limited the ability of federal courts to block federal laws and policies. The Court held that the Judiciary Act of 1789 does not authorize nationwide injunctions that reach more broadly than needed to provide complete relief to parties to a case, but left open several potential avenues for litigants to seek universal relief.

That should have put an end to the antics of these activist judges. But many simply disregarded the  Court’s ruling or attempted end runs around the decision. In fact, according to the Congressional Research Service (CRS), no fewer than 16 nationwide injunctions were issued by lower courts in the 12-month period between June 28, 2025 and June 27, 2026. As crazy as it sounds, that is actually an improvement. During the period between January 20, 2025 and the date SCOTUS ruled on Trump v. CASA a whopping 34 nationwide injunctions were issued by lower courts. So, when Justice Jackson claims that she doesn’t know why the emergency docket has been used so much, she is lying. This is not making her friends on the Court.

Since her confirmation, Justice Jackson has earned a reputation for radicalism. Her solo dissents have provoked justified criticism from her liberal as well as her conservative Court colleagues.  Some of her dissents read as if they were written in clueless social media posts. In her dissent in Louisiana v. Callais she actually accused the majority of “acting as proxies for their favored political parties.” Justice Alito angrily referred to that as “baseless and insulting.” He added that it was “a groundless and utterly irresponsible charge.” But this is the way Democrats of all stripes talk about the Court. If Republican voters are stupid enough to sit out the midterms and allow the Democrats to retake Congress many more KBJs will land on the Supreme Court.

I am sick and tired of the left’s war on data centers. Hey leftist idiot jerks, if you use a mobile device such as your phone, do any online searching, visit any website, have a bank account, or basically interact with the modern world in any way, a data center is not just involved but essential.

So the two major Trojan horses are (a) water use and (b) electrical costs.

Let’s address each in turn.

(a) Water use: Data centers recycle their water. A massive data center fills up with about as much water as two hotel swimming pools. Then recycles. That’s it. No significant more water use.

(b) Electrical costs: Most data centers have their own power generation. Why? Simple economics. It’s cheaper than buying power off the grid.

I don’t talk about this much but I have a graduate degree in engineering and have actually helped build out data centers. That part of my career is in the past – have moved on to other things – but I’ve actually been there, done that.

Data centers should be called job centers. Install creates a lot of jobs. Support maintains many including in surrounding businesses.

Data center hysteria by the leftidiots is the modern version of global warming hysteria. Aren’t we all supposed to be dead now per Al Gore? Sheesh.

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Saturday on MSNOW’s “Connect,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) said President Donald Trump intends to kick “all” naturalized citizens out of the country.

Jayapal said, “I came to Congress to get immigration reform. As you said, I was the first member of Congress to go inside a detention center when families were being separated and talking to moms and dads whose babies had been pulled away.”

She continued, “The amount of cruelty that we are just waging on these families is hard. It it never ceases to surprise me in a way, even though I’m not shocked by anything the administration does. But how we could, as human beings, treat people like animals. Villainize people, weaponize, send them to countries that they’ve never been to, that they don’t speak the language of. Drop them off, put bags over their heads, and push them down stairs of hotels. Make deals with foreign governments to take these people, kidnap people off the streets, ram cars, ICE cars, unmarked vehicles, into people on the streets, shoot somebody in the back—has just happened in Austin, Texas.”

She added, “It is stunning to me that the United States of America would do this. And listen, I’m a naturalized citizen. He’s also trying to denaturalized us. So if you think you’re protected because you’re naturalized, or he’s not going to go after you because you haven’t committed a criminal act, or you’re here with work papers, in any of these situations, I think Americans have woken up to the fact that everyone is susceptible to this cruelty, and his intention is to kick us all out.”

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Several Hollywood actors, including Princess Diaries star Heather Matarazzo, are trying to raise awareness about new actor’s union requirements that could cause many performers to lose their healthcare benefits.

Matarazzo, whose last role was in the 2025 short film Paper Tiger, told fans on her social media that if she does not get a paying acting role soon, the new union rules will cause her to lose her health insurance, according to Variety.

She made her comment in reply to a similar post made by actor Jack Haven, who told fans that he is $4,000 short of reaching the annual $28,933 earning requirement to retain his SAG-AFTRA health insurance plan.

“I’m in a bit of an emergency situation,” Haven said in a YouTube video. “I need to make $4,000 by the end of the month in order to qualify for SAG health insurance starting in January.”

The most recent SAG-AFTRA union contract is not static at the $28,933 income level, either. According to the agreement, actors will find the annual earning total rise by $900 a year all the way to 2030, meaning that by then actors will have to earn $32,533 every year thereafter before being qualified to enroll in the union’s healthcare plan.

Union scale wages for speaking roles are currently as low as $256 a day for low-budget productions and $1,283 per day for productions carrying a $2 million budget or more.

The Welcome to the Dollhouse star echoed Haven’s distress, telling her fans, “I am literally in the same boat right now. Lots of my fellow actors are. I remember a time when we didn’t have to earn a minimum to qualify for insurance.”

Matarazzo, 43, had roles in the short film Paint and five episodes of the Netflix series Wednesday in 2025. She is also about to perform in the upcoming production Lore Harbour.

The union began a series of steps several years ago to change the plan “to address financial deficits facing the plan.”

But, according to Variety, that means about 90 percent of actors are no longer covered under the union’s healthcare plans.

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The organization hosting the event has plans for a 40,000-square-foot Islamic facility near Plano, Texas.

Shaykh Uthman ibn Farooq laid out a vision for an Islamic America during a livestreamed event at the Sufaraa Center in McKinney, Texas, last week. Authentic Ilm Mission, which hosted the event, has plans for a 40,000-square-foot facility near Plano, Texas, and used the livestream featuring Farooq to fundraise for the multipurpose school and Islamic community center.

“We love this country,” Farooq said. “We want good for this country. And that’s why we want Islam for this country, ’cause we think that’s the best thing. And we’re not going to be ashamed of that.”

He went on to argue that Muslims are fully within their constitutional rights to adhere to Sharia law. “We’re Muslims. That’s our identity, and there’s nothing wrong with that. The Constitution of this country protects that. That’s our right to believe in the Sharia. Yes, I said it. That’s our right.”

“There’s communists that believe in communism and live in America,” Farooq continued. “The current mayor of New York is a socialist. Bernie Sanders is open socialist. … Our president — I don’t know what the, what he is actually. I don’t think he knows what he is. … But he has that right according to the Constitution. … There are Satanists. There’s a church of Satan. I’ve debated them.”

Farooq works with the One Message Foundation and is a viral social media influencer. His Instagram and YouTube pages boast 430,000 and 1.4 million followers, respectively. The One Message Foundation’s homepage says it, together with other groups, converted nearly 1,500 individuals to Islam during the World Cup. Farooq’s social media videos feature his commentary speaking of polygamy as legitimate and speculating that President Donald Trump may be an evil spirit.

The event host, Authentic Ilm Mission (AIM), which is led by Dr. Karim AbuZaid and Farooq, is fundraising for an expansive Islamic facility “in one of the most densely Muslim-populated areas between Richardson and Plano,” according to the group’s website. On the former site of a Christian church, the four-acre campus and its facilities — 40,000 square feet in total — will be used to host “Islamic K-12 education,” a seminary, and training in Da’wah, that is, Islamic proselytization.

The AIM website describes the project as having raised $300,000 of the $800,000 needed, with donations reportedly coming from 1,500 individuals in 50 countries. The site features a video of a mosque displacing a beautiful church building with a steeple and classical brick architecture. A different graphic on the website allows users to swipe across the screen to replace an image of the church building at the address listed with an image of the new mosque. The number of mosques in America has surpassed 3,000 in recent years.

During the livestreamed event, Farooq said that the classes offered at the “Da’wah center” would help “educate our youth to have that knowledge … [and] refute Christian apologists and Islamophobes and hadith-rejectors and anybody else that’s trying to deviate Islam.”

He also warned against compromising Islamic principles, framing the warning in terms of Muslims’ military conquests in Europe. Muslims being driven out of parts of Europe in and around the 1500s demonstrate the consequences of compromise, Farooq said: “Portugal and Spain, Sicily — these areas were under Muslim rule for around 700 years. … When the Muslims went there, one of the leaders of the Muslims … went with sword in hand, iman in heart … The Quran was on their tongues. It was in their hearts. It was in their actions. And Allah made them victorious. Victory after victory until, to the middle of Europe, they were victorious. Seven hundred years of compromise, of trying to accommodate ended with what? the Muslims losing.”

Farooq is no stranger to controversy. Yvette Cooper, who was serving as home secretary at the time, barred Farooq from visiting the United Kingdom due to comments justifying Muslims having sex with female captives, a position endorsed by Muhammad in the Quran. Farooq visited Europe in April 2025. When speaking at a Birmingham mosque, he said, “The future is ours. Every ideal nightmare of a Muslim Europe will come true.”

Texas has one of the highest Muslim populations in the United States at more than 300,000, and a significant portion resides in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The intended site for the Authentic Ilm Mission facility is situated about 20 minutes southwest of the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) mosque, which boasts 10,000 members and is embroiled in controversy that garnered nationwide attention with its efforts to establish a Muslim city. The legal battle over EPIC’s planned complex of more than 450 housing plots is ongoing.

Joshua Monnington, The Federalist