Should Texas fund Muslim education?

By Carole Hornsby Haynes       April 2, 2026       American Thinker 

A federal district judge has ruled that at least four Islamic schools in Texas are eligible to receive tax payer funding with dozens of others waiting to join, according to media reports. These include the Maryland-based virtual school Bayaan Academy, K-12 college prep school Brighter Horizons Academy in Garland, the Excellence Academy north of Dallas, and the K-12 Houston Quran Academy. 

With public alarm growing over the Islamization of Texas due to mass immigration, state officials initially tried to exclude Islamic schools from receiving funding through the new billion dollar school choice program, the Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA).  Concerned about links to terrorism and a dubious accreditation agency, officials rejected most of the applications from Islamic schools and reversed those that had been approved.  

Under the voucher program, taxpayers fund more than $10,000 for student tuition at state-approved private schools. Eligible homeschool students can receive up to $2,000 for approved expenses. As expected with government programs, funds come with conditions and restrictions. 

Many of the schools, which have applied, are linked to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) which has been designated a terrorist oganization by Texas Governor Greg Abbott because it is connected to Hamas and the Mother Brotherhood. 

Abbott, despite being funded by wealthy Muslim donors, defended his opposition, “We don’t want school choice funds going to radical Islamic indoctrination with historic connections to terrorism.”   

The lawsuit employs the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment along with Freedom of Religion of the First Amendment. The plaintiffs claim religious discrimination against Muslim parents and Islamic schools that have been excluded from the approved list of private schools for voucher funding, while hundreds of other religious (mostly Christian) schools are on the approved list. 

Opponents say this is not about freedom of religion. Although Islam is considered a “world religion,” it is not a religion. It is a totalitarian, tyrannical, political theocracy. Islam is an Arabic term which literally means "submission" or "surrender" to the will of God (Allah). Islamic law -- Shari’ah -- does not co-exist with any other laws. It is totally incompatible with our Constitution and our Western values. 

Since Muslims are taught they must follow Shari’ah, how can being denied school choice funding which is based on our constitutional laws be a “religious” violation of Shari’ah? 

Would any Islamic country ever allow Christian schools to exist? How about Jewish schools? 

If there is any doubt about the teachings of Islam, read these quotes from the Qur’an, the Islamic holy book. It is quite clear that Christians, Jews and other “infidels” who do not submit to Islam are enemies and will be killed. 

• Infidels are those that say “God is the Christ, the son of Mary”. (Sura 5:17)

• Believers, take neither the Jews nor the Christians for your friends. (Sura 5:51)

• Infidels are those that say “God is one of three in a Trinity”. (Sura 5:73)

• Make war on the infidels who dwell around you. (Sura 9:123)

• The infidels are your sworn enemies. (Sura 4:101)

• When you meet the infidel in the battlefield, strike off their heads. (Sura 47:4)

• Prophet, make war on the infidels. (Sura 66:9)

• Kill the disbelievers wherever we find them. (Sura 2:191)

This is what students are taught in Muslim schools. Need proof? Check out the website of Brighter Horizons Academy. In Islamic Education “learning objectives are designed to develop Islamic values, attitudes and behaviors.” The curriculum objectives are more explicit about what type of “education” Texas taxpayers will be forced to fund in Muslim schools. 

• “To learn to glorify and adore Allah and love His prophets, to love whatever and whomever Allah and His Messenger Muhammad (Peace be upon him) love, to dislike whatever and whomever they dislike, and to willingly behave in a way pleasing to Allah.”

• “To develop an attitude of total submission to Allah’s divine revelation.”

• “To understand that Islam is a comprehensive, balanced and perfect way of life; to learn the foundational Islamic beliefs, ideals, ethics, obligations, injunctions, and prohibitions.”

This should chill the blood of all freedom loving Texans. Muslims blatantly state their goal is the conversion of America to an Islamic nation living under Shari’ah. Why would Texans want to fund Islamic schools that indoctrinate students in a tyrannical, totalitarian ideology for the takeover of America? 

Opponents have long warned about the dangers of government funded school vouchers and how they would lead to more government control over private education and homeschooling. Supporters of the new Texas legislation promised that government control would not be a problem. 

Now they are struggling with an inevitability. If no controls are exercised over the funding, then indoctrination in jihad, Shari’ah, and other core Islamic beliefs, along with paganism and whatever else, will be taught without any accountability. This cannot be an option. Americans cannot afford to allow our enemies to educate students for the destruction of our country. 

If controls are placed on the funding, then what this writer has been predicting for years is going to happen. There will be a single payer model and private schools and homeschools will become the new face of public education. Education freedom will become a dinosaur. 

To have real education freedom, private schools and homeschools must reject all goverment funding.