The Broken Arrow City Council will meet to consider a planning commission’s recommended approval of a rezoning application and conditional use permit for the building of a mosque and future retail center just south of the Creek Expressway at Olive on January 12, 2026 at 6 p.m. in the Northeastern State University Administrative Services Building at 3100 E. New Orleans St.

This is a controversial project that saw over four hours of public comment when the Planning Commission considered the proposal and approved it.  There were various types of objections – cultural objections and problems caused by the site such as road access, sewer, traffic.

According to Rick Brown, the architect designing the facility, the prayer facility would be 38,000 square feet and have around 700 parking spaces.  The building would be built in three phases: the prayer hall, then classrooms and a women’s prayer area and finally a gym.  (Site plan to the right).

Republican Oklahoma state Rep. Gabe Woolley who attended the Planning Commission meeting called for prayer stating that this is not the direction we want our community, state or nation to go in.

There was an organizational meeting for those opposed to the mosque’s request to rezone and build on Jan. 6 at the 6 p.m. at the Property Event Center, located at 11500 South 129th East Avenue.  OK State Sen. Christi Gillespie of Broken Arrow, a former city councilor, was scheduled to speak to the zoning process of Broken Arrow and on how to address opposition to the Council   The meeting was organized by David Oldham of Constitutional Grounds.  His strategy is to deliver land arguments from objectors first as this will be the most convincing of the arguments and then follow with other objections.

The forms to express your opinion of this possible development can be filled out and must be presented by 5:30 pm on Jan. 12.

One of the problematic issues with this mosque brought up by Michael Bates on his website Batesline.com is the ownership of the mosque land.  According to his website the land was bought in 2014 by the Islamic Society of Tulsa and then transferred to NAIT (North American Islamic Trust).  Batesline contends that “Discover the Networks has detailed and lengthy articles on the North American Islamic Trust and its parent organization, the Islamic Society of North America, carefully and precisely documenting their connections to terrorist-linked organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood and the Holy Land Foundation.

financial subsidiary and “constituent organization” of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) was founded in 1973 in Indiana by members of the Muslim Students Association of the U.S. & Canada. NAIT is a tax-exempt nonprofit endowment that not only subsidizes the construction of new mosques in the United States, but presently claims to hold the mortgages on more than 325 existing mosques, Islamic centers, and Islamic schools in 42 states. Some sources indicate that NAIT holds the mortgages to about 27% of all U.S. mosques, which is roughly consistent with the Trust’s own claim; other sources place the figure much higher, at somewhere between 50% and 79%.

Because NAIT controls the purse strings of these many properties, it can exercise ultimate authority over what they teach and what activities they conduct. Specifically, the Trust seeks to ensure that the institutions under its financial influence promote the principles of Sharia Law and Wahhabism….

At the 2007 trial investigating allegations that the now-defunct Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development had engaged in the illegal financing of terrorism, both NAIT and ISNA were named as “unindicted co-conspirators” and as “entities who are and/or were members of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood.” Prosecutors presented copious evidence that ISNA had used NAIT to divert funds to leading Hamas officials like Mousa Abu Marzook, and to a number of Hamas-run institutions (such as the Islamic University of Gaza and the Islamic Center of Gaza, the latter of which was founded by the late Hamas leader Ahmed Yassin). ”