Pakistani Imam Converts 165-Acre Illinois Holiday Inn Into Muslim City

A Pakistani imam is quietly turning a 165-acre former Illinois Holiday Inn into a $400 million all-Muslim gated city – a self-contained enclave with its own mosque, school, and economy, built so residents never have to step outside its walls into American society. It is one node in what he claims is a $2.5 billion empire of hotels, properties, and Sharia-compliant investment platforms stretching across the United States.

He markets it worldwide, runs a visa company and a six-month pipeline that funnels foreign nationals and their money into the country, and brags that a second property he owns in Pennsylvania sits atop America’s "underground Pentagon," the government’s nuclear-war bunker. In Urdu-language interviews never meant for American ears, he drops the talk of “love” and says it plainly: "The next war is of the merchants" - Islam, he explains, will spread through commerce the way it once spread through traders, not armies.

... Who is really funding the construction of a parallel society on American soil, and why is no one watching?...

His stated goal is to erase the existing image of Islam and replace it with a new, sanitized one, not through genuine reform, but through demographic expansion, economic power, and parallel institutions. By openly declaring that this resort will launch a global "wave" and produce the next generation of Muslim billionaires who will "lead the world ethically", a phrase that, in Islamic usage, means under Sharia. Sukhera reveals the real objective: using American soil, American infrastructure, and American freedoms to grow a separate Islamic power base that ultimately seeks to dominate, not integrate. This is linguistic jihad dressed up in soft language: words that mean one thing to Western ears and something entirely different to the Ummah...

... He is deliberately constructing his "Ummah-wide system" on American soil. While he smiles and talks about "Islam is love" and "diversity and inclusion," he is using U.S. land, U.S. freedoms, and overseas Muslim capital to create self-contained Islamic enclaves designed to expand and dominate...

To understand what Sukhera means by a "war of the merchants," it helps to know a concept woven through modern Islamist thought: that struggle in the cause of Islam is waged not only by the sword but by the word and by the purse...

For years, RAIR Foundation has warned that the Muslim Brotherhood’s 'Project' is actively building parallel Islamic societies inside the United States, self-contained enclaves deliberately engineered to reject assimilation, preserve foreign values, and operate as separate nations within our nation....