by WorldTribune Staff, August 17, 2026 Non-AI Real World News
Parents are expressing shock over what they say is Islam's intrusion into schools in Texas and California.
Field trips to mosques, distributing Qurans and hijabs to students, and handing out pamphlets extolling the upside of Sharia law have all occurred in the past few years in school districts in both states.
"They've never bussed students to temples or churches. They said we must keep religion out of schools. WTF is going on??" one X user commented in reaction to the video.
"Teaching about different religions is one thing. Handing out sacred texts, putting religious clothing on students, photographing them without permission, and framing one faith as the vehicle for social justice is something else entirely," Kyle Reyes, owner of Law Enforcement Today, Blue Lives Matter and The Police Tribune, and CEO of The Silent Partner Marketing noted in a post to LinkedIn.
Students at Palo Alto High School in California "were handed Qurans, encouraged to wear hijabs, and told Islam promotes social justice on a school field trip. Now parents are suing," Reyes noted.
Jewish, Hindu, and Zoroastrian parents filed a federal lawsuit against Palo Alto Unified School District and Principal Brent Kline over the fall 2025 trip to a Santa Clara mosque as part of the school's Social Justice Pathway program.
The complaint alleges female students were provided hijabs and encouraged to wear them, all students were gifted Qurans to take home, photos of the minors were taken and posted online without parental consent, and the visit presented Islam as uniquely tied to social justice work.
"The district failed to maintain religious neutrality, failed to ensure equal treatment among faiths, failed to protect student privacy and failed to vet, supervise, and monitor religiously divisive outside speakers during the school-sponsored event," reads the lawsuit.
Students also heard from Zahra Billoo, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Bay Area office, who later dismissed the lawsuit as "misguided," saying public schools have an obligation to expose students to different worldviews and that neutrality does not mean shielding them entirely.
In Texas, dozens of attendees at a Wylie Independent School District school board meeting in February of this year questioned how the outside group "Why Islam" was able to set up a table on campus during school hours without district approval.
In a viral video, the president of the school's Republican Club describes what he saw: "They were giving out hijabs to girls throughout the high school, and they were giving out Qurans, and they also had pamphlets about Sharia law."
Wylie East student Camden Campbell attended the school board meeting with his father: "When I found out, it was pretty shocking," he said.
"My main concern is kind of the same as his," Jordan Campbell said. "It was basically, how did they get in and then come back and say we didn't know what they had? The other side of it was the Sharia law pamphlet."
In March of this year, The Texan reported that more than 30 high school students from Humble Independent School District took a field trip to the Centro Islamico, which is run by the organization IslamInSpanish.
In a video posted after the field trip, which occurred on Feb. 17, a school bus is seen dropping off students and teachers at the Centro Islamico. According to the Kingwood High School Muslim Students Association (MSA) Instagram page, the field trip took place during the school day, with students leaving after their second period class and not returning until 3:45 p.m, with lunch at halal food trucks, a midday prayer, a tour, and presentation from IslamInSpanish.
"We'll have scarves," the social media post said. "This will not count towards the 4-absence exemption rule," it continued, referring to one of the school's requirements for student final exam exemptions.
The Kingwood MSA advertised multiple activities that had taken place during the school day, including a designated prayer time, Hijab Social where students and teachers tried on the head coverings, and a field trip with a Islamic "khutbah," or sermon, and prayer.
The Kingwood High School MSA Instagram also shows a representative from CAIR Houston speaking to the high schoolers.
In November 2025, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott designated CAIR, along with the Muslim Brotherhood, as "foreign terrorist" and "transnational criminal" organizations.
🚨 OMG. Terrifying development as taxpayer funded public school students in Texas are bussed to an ISLAMIC CENTER so they can see Islam up close and personal
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 13, 2026
The Muslims who run the mosque are ecstatic with how many kids are showing up to possibly be converted 😠
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