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Someone Is Paying for All of This

Melissa Brodsky · The Lioness Writes

Oct 6, 2026 · 1 min listen · Last updated October 6, 2026

Someone is paying for all of this: the land, mosques, Islamic schools, gyms, athletic fields, community centers, clinics, and multimillion-dollar construction projects appearing across Florida. Some communities raise the money themselves. Some borrow it without interest. Some receive land from donors.

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Someone is paying for all of this: the land, mosques, Islamic schools, gyms, athletic fields, community centers, clinics, and multimillion-dollar construction projects appearing across Florida. Some communities raise the money themselves. Some borrow it without interest. Some receive land from donors. There are also national Islamic organizations pooling money from hundreds of Islamic centers, investing it, lending it for construction and property purchases, and holding the deeds after the buildings go up.

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Florida is the case study because that is where this investigation started, but the financial structure does not stop at the state line. The North American Islamic Trust, better known as NAIT, says Islamic communities have entrusted property to it in 42 states. Its Islamic Centers Cooperative Fund contains money from more than 400 Islamic centers. NAIT describes a national system for pooling Muslim assets, investing money, making interest-free loans, developing Sharia-compliant financial products, and holding Islamic property in perpetuity. A Florida court case gives us a detailed look at how one piece of that system worked.

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