Islamic scholars once ruled voting in Western democracy haram. Today the same networks call elections their jihad. America’s 4,000 mosques are their barracks and infrastructure. Imam Tom Facchine is building the templates and rewriting Sharia to seize power through the ballot box. This is coordinated civilization jihad. Wake up and vote.

For decades, Islamic scholarship treated participation in Western elections as haram. Democracy is a man-made system that places legislative power in the hands of the people rather than Allah alone. Ruling by anything other than Sharia was viewed as contrary to Islam, and voting in such systems risked shirk or even apostasy.

That position has been deliberately reversed to seize power in America. Today the same networks encourage mass voting and frame elections as obligatory modern jihad. Yasir Qadhi declares: "We’re going to fight not through the bullets but the ballot." CAIR’s Nihad Awad and figures like Imam Tom Facchine push coordinated campaigns through the nation’s mosques. What was once forbidden is now a weapon of conquest.

CAIR’s Nihad Awad calls mosques their "infrastructure." Turkey’s Erdogan calls them their "barracks." Awad lays it out in detail: "We have 4,000 mosques in America… that is the largest infrastructure of social organizations, non-profit organizations." He urges strategic fundraising and spending, describing the result as "an army of manpower… that can defend the Muslim community… and we empower it politically." They can run for city council, Congress, the Senate – "even the U.S. president." These are not places of worship. They are operational command centers.

In 1997, while he was still mayor of Istanbul, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stood up and openly recited the Islamist battle cry: "The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets, and the faithful our soldiers." Mosques function as fortified command centers for indoctrination, recruitment, influence operations, institutional capture, and the generation of disciplined political power. While America sleepwalks, treating them as harmless "houses of worship," these barracks are actively building parallel societies and voter armies. Different players. Same system of civilizational jihad.

The threat has escalated further. Mosques across Texas – over 300 of them – are now officially serving as active polling stations and voting sites. CAIR celebrated its 2024 "victory" in making the Islamic Center of Brushy Creek Williamson County’s first Muslim polling location. In the March 2026 primary, voting inside these mosques was happening in real time while Democrats shattered early-voting records. Taxpayer-funded mosques are doubling as official polling stations, engineering massive Democrat surges and flipping the Lone Star State through imported voter blocs. This is engineered conquest from within the barracks themselves.

This is a highly coordinated, ruthlessly organized, and devastatingly effective operation. Across the country, these mosque command centers are being weaponized in lockstep to wage open jihad on America through the ballot box – from inside their own walls. Just look at the power of a single imam: Tom Facchine is proving how one man, operating through this national network of barracks and infrastructure, can build political machines, flip races, and advance the agenda with frightening precision.

Imam Tom Facchine: Convert, Madinah-Trained, Building an Islamic Army

Imam Tom Facchine converted to Islam in 2010 at Vassar College after immersing himself in leftist theory and Malcolm X. He then spent years at the Islamic University of Madinah (Faculty of Shariah), returning as Research Director at Yaqeen Institute and resident scholar at Utica Masjid.

Facchine has played a pivotal role in grooming young radicals under the banner of "activism" by platforming and mentoring a new generation of revolutionaries. He uses his platforms to celebrate figures like Abdullah Akl as the new generation of Muslim activists, while collaborating with banned Muslim Brotherhood figures such as Tareq Al-Suwaidan and training activists in overseas conferences in places like Turkey and Malaysia – beyond the easy reach of U.S. law enforcement. Harvard graduate student Abdullah Akl – who openly called for terrorism and "Intifada" on American soil – is a direct protégé of Facchine, platformed and legitimized by him through networks including MAS Staten Island and Within Our Lifetime. This is systematic ideological grooming fused with political agitation.

Facchine openly states he is "building out a system for what political engagement looks like." He is not merely participating – he is constructing the infrastructure and theological justification for permanent Muslim political power in America.

At the heart of this effort is his formal presentation to the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA). The Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America is a key U.S.-based Sharia authority that issues fatwas, trains imams, and provides religious rulings for Muslims living in the West. It operates a national Sharia hotline, produces classical rulings that endorse the death penalty for apostasy, condone practices such as marital rape and female genital mutilation under certain conditions, and has published blueprints urging Muslims to infiltrate American courts and legal systems under the doctrine of "necessity" with the long-term goal of elevating Sharia.

In August 2025, at AMJA’s 21st Annual Imams’ Conference, Facchine presented his paper "Grounding Political Engagement in Shariah Norms." Historically, democracy and voting in non-Islamic systems have been ruled haram by mainstream scholars because they transfer legislative authority from Allah to the people. Facchine is systematically working to reverse that ruling. His paper argues that political participation and social activism are not only permissible under Sharia but, in the American context, can be viewed as necessary – framed as expressions of divine vicegerency, commanding good and forbidding evil, and bearing witness for justice. He is attempting to make voting and democratic engagement halal by reinterpreting classical concepts so that Muslims can seize political power while claiming fidelity to Islamic law.

Facchine declares: "The constitution is plastic. The constitution was meant to be reinterpreted… You’re allowed to come up with your mastermind plan to take over the country." And that is exactly what he is doing.

Facchine goes further on weaponizing America’s own laws. He discusses how court rulings and legal trends have increasingly prioritized the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment (protecting the free practice of religion) over the Establishment Clause (which prohibits government establishment of religion). Facchine sees this shift as a golden opportunity. He states:

"Let’s say all of the Muslim jurists in America come and issue a statement and saying that [something is a] religious obligation. We could have it legally recognized and it could invalidate overnight all anti-Sharia, anti-BDS legislation. That’s an opportunity that you can’t afford to pass on."

In other words, if Muslim jurists and fiqh councils unify behind a fatwa declaring a Sharia-based practice an essential religious duty, courts could rule to protect it under free exercise protections, striking down laws that stand in the way. This is Facchine teaching how to turn the Constitution against America to advance Sharia step by step.

Beyond using our laws against us to advance Islam, Facchine also stands ready to game our two-party election system. As he stated earlier when discussing building out a system for political engagement:

"We have a vested interest in being present on both sides, because opportunities will come from both sides."

RAIR Foundation recently exposed that "both sides" strategy in action in Texas, with Republican official Ali Sheikhani, a wealthy Pakistani immigrant elected as Fort Bend County Precinct 3 Constable. Sheikhani had only a few years of limited, part-time law enforcement experience after joining the rank-and-file around 2019 and attending the police academy. Despite that thin record, he seized control of a local police office and has used it to advance Pakistani priorities – welcoming foreign Pakistani dignitaries into the station with VIP treatment while receiving royal receptions back home.

‘The Moral Vote’: Streamlining Islamic Election Power

The tool Facchine is using to implement some of these election strategies is The Moral Vote , a 501(c)(4) focused on Muslim voter engagement in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley – for now. He is actively working to scale this nationwide, to help other local Islamic organizations around the country mobilize for elections. While speaking at the Muslim Association of Lehigh Valley, he boasts:

"We are actually making templates for other communities to follow exactly what we’ve done… We are able to then share our templates, give them to other mosques, and say ‘this is what we’ve done, you can do the same thing.’"

Facchine does not stop at local templates. He openly boasts that he is already in direct contact with parallel operations across the country – in Michigan, California, Arizona, and other states – swapping notes, trading best practices, and learning from CAIR Action itself. This is no isolated experiment in the Lehigh Valley. It is a coordinated national network deliberately sharing playbooks so every mosque can replicate the same machine.

This is the precise infrastructure Nihad Awad has spent years building. Awad stood in EPIC Mosque in Texas and openly instructed the community on how to use tax-exempt mosques, a CAIR 501(c)(4), and a new Muslim Super PAC to make or break elections. The mosque (tax-deductible) is used to build the voter bloc, the CAIR 501(c)(4) to lobby, draft, and fight laws, PACs to fund candidates, and the Super PAC for unlimited money to flip races. Facchine’s Moral Vote is not freelancing. It is executing Awad’s plan in real time – turning the nation’s mosque network into a scalable election weapon.

During an "Our Voice, Our Power" event of The Moral Vote in June of 2025, held at the Islamic Society of Allentown, Facchine also emphasized that low turnout gives them outsized power, and reviews how small numbers from the masjid could flip close local primaries. As RAIR Foundation USA has previously exposed, local elections in off-year election cycles, such as the upcoming midterm elections, has become a pivotal battleground for building Islamic political power. From city councils to school boards, state representatives to congressional seats, many of these races across the country are determined by only a few thousand votes (and sometimes only a few dozen). These elections are won or lost in large part to low voter turnout, with local election cycles frequently seeing a voter turnout rate of 30 percent or less.

Like many of the organizations on the left, Facchine specifically calls attention to the importance of voter registration, aiming for quarterly voter registration drives in the community. This is a critical function that seems to be largely overlooked within conservative/GOP circles. As we have seen time and time again in local elections, hundreds of thousands of ballots (sometimes even over a million) go uncast in any given voting district, with races determined by numbers that mirror the population size of our church congregations (less than 4,000). A small number of get-out-the-vote drives at community churches have the potential to flip key races in any given district – and vastly change how our schools, police, city councils, state houses, and even Congress are run.

Beyond just voter mobilization, The Moral Vote is also helping to push Muslim voting bloc-approved candidates into office, and unseat officials problematic to the ummah. As we saw in races in New York and New Jersey, the Muslim voting bloc mobilized heavily to provide decisive wins for Zohran Mamdani, Dr. Adam Hamawy, and Darializa Avila Chevalier. Groups like CAIR and Emgage held candidate forums, providing pre-packaged, Muslim-endorsed candidates that sailed through primaries. In many cases, primary elections prove to be more important and consequential than the general election – just as we saw in the New York mayoral race. In heavily blue districts, where the Islamic Society of Allentown is located, the real battle is fought in the primaries. Since a Democratic win is almost guaranteed, getting the "right" candidate for the Muslim voting bloc is largely determined during primaries.

As a blue precinct/district in a swing state, this also has the potential to influence seats all the way to the Senate. It is through this lens, that Facchine is laser-focused on Senator John Fetterman. During the same June of 2025 video of The Moral Vote, Facchine states:

"John Fetterman is one of the most egregious politicians…you will never be able to replace him with who you want, unless you organize now."

Unlike many in the Democratic party, Fetterman still remains mostly moderate. He has supported Trump on various policies, remains a supporter of national security measures, as well as Israel. This is precisely why the Muslim voting bloc finds him so "egregious." As RAIR Foundation has exposed, the Muslim Brotherhood’s 1982 document, called "The Project," specifically calls for using the Palestinian cause to become a unifying movement with the Left, in their efforts to push Islamic priorities and policies into American culture and government. They merge with anti-ICE, pro-immigration organizations and movements because both serve the same purpose – to weaken national security. To have a Democratic senator that supports both strong borders and Israel is an in-house blow to the Muslim voting bloc.

The full video of The Moral Vote "Our Voice, Our Power" is available here:

Fetterman is such a thorn in Facchine’s side that he continues to strategize against him in The Moral Vote’s Election 2025 Debrief, held again at the Islamic Society of Allentown, in January of this year. Here, he strategizes the various ways to unseat Fetterman, focusing on getting involved early in 2027, to allow for enough time to mobilize against the 2028 election season. It is in this session that he is singularly focused around the Palestinian cause as a metric for getting the right candidates into office. Once again, for this blue precinct, it all comes down to the primary, not the general election.

Unfortunately for Imam Tom Facchine, the Islamic Society of Allentown is part of PA-07, the congressional district now being represented by Republican congressman Ryan Mackenzie. This district encompasses Lehigh, Northampton, Carbon and Monroe counties. Lehigh County, which includes Allentown, is a Democratic county. During the 2024 congressional race, Mackenzie lost this area by 4.6 points. But that is where the Democratic advantage ends. In Northampton, Mackenzie lost by only .6 points. He ran away with Carbon and Monroe counties, beating Susan Wild by over 33 points and 35 points, respectively.

For this particular race, Facchine frames it as a game of chicken in which a Democratic challenger will not receive their vote unless they "do" certain things (one can assume this means a strong pro-Palestinian stance):

"How do we play that game of chicken where we say, yeah we don’t like Mackenzie..but we’re not going to give you our support unless you do this for us"

In 2024, Mackenzie won his district by only 4,062 votes. While he dominated in Carbon and Monroe counties, he lost to Wild in both Northampton and Lehigh counties. For the 2026 election, there is now an active voter mobilization effort happening within the Muslim community in Lehigh county. Four thousand votes is a tight race. Even with additional third party candidates running this year, this race is one of the most contested in the country and considered a toss-up. It can easily be swung by voter mobilization drives. The question remains, who will swing it? Will it be the Muslim community or the Christian community?

Compounding the threat, this particular voter mobilization is targeting a new, previously untouched demographic – older and highly observant Muslims. The younger generation of Muslims in America has been highly engaged in organizations like the Muslim Student Association (MSA) and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), which includes activism circles already engaged in intense voter campaigns. But for the older generation, they have remained largely untouched. We are now seeing a concerted effort to not only reach them directly using the mosque community, but armed with Facchine’s AMJA paper, dismantle the "democracy is haram" thought process and drive them to voter participation.

Conservatives now have a new threat to address in the voter mobilization battle (and one that is currently being rolled out nationwide). This is precisely why the GOP, local activists AND churches need to converge to ensure every single registered voter casts a ballot in November. A tight race during a Presidential election year is never a good sign. We know historically that will mean fewer votes for 2026. The district cannot afford low voter turnout in the middle of numerous voter mobilization campaigns largely favoring Bob Brooks, the Democratic challenger. Betting on third party candidates to help edge out a win is a big gamble. What happens in PA-07 this November has the potential to shift power in the House of Representatives. Pennsylvania GOP, activists and churches – this is an all hands on deck operation: T-minus 80 days.

Watch the full 2025 Election Debrief from The Moral Vote here:

Breaking the Law?

Tom Facchine is not just organizing. He appears to be violating federal law in plain sight – and he is doing it from the pulpit of a tax-exempt mosque.

IRS code strictly prohibits 501(c)(3) organizations – including mosques – from intervening in any political campaign on behalf of, or in opposition to, any candidate for public office. That means no endorsements, no opposition, no "game of chicken" threats, and no coordinated efforts to unseat specific elected officials. Violations can trigger loss of tax-exempt status, heavy fines, and criminal referrals.

Facchine’s explicit attacks on Fetterman and Mackenzie, delivered from inside the Islamic Society of Allentown, which is a 501(c)(3), appear to be a textbook case of IRS code violations. We are hoping that federal authorites launch an investigation.

Tamkeen and the Muslim Student Association Pipeline

Pushing his youth mobilization pipeline further, Facchine is also co-founder and Vice President of Tamkeen, a Muslim youth activism organization. It partners heavily with the Muslim Student Association (MSA) and also collaborates with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). The MSA is the student arm of the Muslim Brotherhood. It was founded by Brotherhood members as a recruitment pipeline that spawned the broader network of Brotherhood-linked groups in America. Operating since the 1960s, the MSA is found in college campuses nationwide, and has expanded to high schools as well. Using student clubs and events, they push to normalize Sharia and its practices into American education.

At ICNA-MAS 2025, Tamkeen and MSA National held a session featuring Watfae Zayed (Advocacy Chair for MSA National Masjid & Students Front and part of Tamkeen). According to Canary Mission, Zayed has whitewashed terrorism, glorified violent protests, promoted anti-Israel conspiracy theories, supported BDS, and has a long record of radical activism dating back to high school MSA involvement and MAS-ICNA events.

The same session included Hadeeqa Arzoo Malik, Student Lead for Tamkeen and one of Zohran Mamdani’s most infamous interns. RAIR Foundation exposed how Malik took a $5,000 Holocaust-survivor award from the Claire Friedlander Foundation for an essay against bigotry – then marched for a Jew-free state, berated a Muslim NYPD officer as a "pig," and engaged in aggressive pro-Hamas activism.

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Armed with this network of organizations and youth, Imam Tom Facchine already has the resources in place to further push his voter mobilization efforts.

America, Wake Up – Vote Like Your Country Depends On It

Almost no one on the Republican side is mobilizing voters the way Democrats are in every city and district across the country. If we keep ignoring this, even the SAVE America Act will not be able to save us. They are planning on a low-turnout midterm election cycle – exactly like this one – to seize more power in Congress, city councils, school boards, and courts.

This is not politics as usual. This is coordinated jihad through the ballot box, using our own elections, our own Constitution, and our own apathy against us. Every American must get out and vote. The future of the Republic depends on it.