Plano, TX, Hands $1.2 Million to Radical Terror-Aligned Charities, Including Controversial EPIC City
In one sermon, the imam of a city-funded mosque cautions that men may beat their wives, but not “to the extent that they die.”
June 5, 2025Sam Westrop
The city of Plano, a wealthy suburb of Dallas, has handed over $1.2 million to extreme Islamist organizations, including an Islamic center under investigation by state and federal agencies over its alleged plans for a sharia enclave and whose leader advocated the killing of homosexuals; a mosque whose imam permits husbands to beat their wives; and two charities accused of links to foreign terror organizations.
East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC)
Since 2016, records published by the government of Plano, TX, indicate the city has given $219,000 to the controversial East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC), despite ongoing law enforcement investigations into the notoriously radical mosque’s efforts to establish an enclave north of Dallas.
Significant national media attention on EPIC in recent months has focused on the mosque’s controversial plans to establish a 402-acre compound north of Dallas, named EPIC City.
Crucially, the most recent grant, of some $142,921, was provided on May 9, 2025, weeks after the state of Texas, on orders of Governor Greg Abbott, opened multiple investigations, including by the Texas Rangers, into the mosque and its “affiliated entities” for “potential criminal activities.”
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