Apr 2, 2025
Blue Ridge, Texas, is the kind of town that still feels like America. Just 1,200 people live here. Only 300 students attend the local high school. It’s quiet, rural, and close-knit—exactly the kind of place where neighbors look out for each other, and city politics used to be a simple matter of potholes, permits, and high school football.
But something has changed.
Behind closed doors and under the cover of routine development approvals, ideological developers with documented ties to Sharia-based education networks and radical affiliations have advanced two major projects—securing annexation, rezoning, and preliminary infrastructure support for what they present as “residential communities.” However, public records, council minutes, and developer statements tell a different story: these appear to be sectarian enclaves, designed to function under religious governance and insulated from public transparency.
These efforts are not isolated —they appear to be part of a broader, well-funded campaign by shadowy groups with radical ties to quietly Islamize Texas through land acquisition, legal maneuvering, and strategic municipal capture.
The twin proposed enclaves—Qariyah of Princeton (141 acres) and Baladeyah (32 acres)—are being marketed as housing developments, but are structured in a way that suggests a broader ideological purpose.
Each project is jointly owned:
Qariyah of Princeton is co-owned by Qariyah, LLC and Hamra Princeton 18, LLC (a subsidiary of Hamra Homes).
Qariyah, LLC is the primary land-holding company, while “Qariyah of Princeton” is its public-facing name.
Baladeyah is co-owned by Qariyah, LLC and Hussein A. Qattan, a man linked to the Islamic Services Foundation and Sharia-compliant educational initiatives.
These developments raise serious concerns about transparency, legal compliance, and potential misuse of public resources. They also represent a direct and unprecedented challenge to the legal, constitutional, and civic framework of the State of Texas.
And here’s the most alarming part: City officials appear to have enabled it.
Without notifying the public and while bypassing basic legal safeguards, the City of Blue Ridge approved key actions: annexing land, rezoning agricultural parcels, and even entertaining a developer’s request to strip Texas’s mandatory anti-BDS clause from a municipal contract. That request came just weeks after Suhana Karim—a key developer and listed manager of Hamra Princeton 18, LLC—publicly praised Hamas, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. The clause remained intact, but the request itself should have triggered immediate escalation to the Texas Attorney General. It didn’t. READ MORE
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SOURCE: RAIR Foundation USA