Amy Mek, RAIR Foundation, 4/4/25
Retired Lieutenant Douglas Deaton exposed a disturbing reality: EPIC’s Sharia-controlled enclave in Plano isn’t some future vision—it already exists. For nearly 12 years, EPIC has operated a religiously exclusive neighborhood comprising 74 homes, a sprawling mosque, Islamic schools, a medical clinic, and Sharia-compliant financial services. Most alarming, the enclave includes a fortress-like residence constructed directly beside the Plano Police Academy—strategically positioned to overlook restricted law enforcement areas and tactical assets. They haven’t been hiding—they’ve been operating in plain sight. And no one stopped them.
The East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) is, to put it mildly, a controversial Islamic mega-mosque based in Plano, Texas. It is widely known for its radical resident scholar, Yasir Qadh, and its aggressive expansion across North Texas.
What began as a modest community mosque has transformed into a 76,000-square-foot Islamic complex, making it one of the largest in Texas. Its main prayer hall alone spans 33,000 square feet and can accommodate over 3,200 worshippers. The sprawling campus also includes an entire Islamic school, a multi-purpose hall, youth indoctrination spaces, and Sharia-compliant classrooms—all designed to reinforce Islamic norms and community control.
Over the years, EPIC has built significant political and financial influence, positioning itself as far more than just a mosque. It has become a hub for ideological control and community structuring, using its infrastructure to advance Sharia-based systems within a Western civic framework.
Now, EPIC is under intense public scrutiny for its latest and most ambitious project: the construction of EPIC City—a massive, Sharia-adherent residential and commercial enclave being developed nearly 40 minutes from its current Plano headquarters.
EPIC City is not just a housing development. It is a deliberate blueprint for a self-contained Islamic community, built around Sharia principles and insulated from public oversight. The 402-acre project will include over 1,000 homes, a mega-mosque, an Islamic school, retail centers, and senior housing—all structured to function within an Islamic legal and social framework.
The announcement of EPIC City triggered massive public outrage, fueled in part by a series of hard-hitting investigations by RAIR Foundation USA. RAIR also exposed EPIC’s long-term strategy to replicate the insular, Sharia-compliant enclave it has quietly organized in Plano over the past decade—only this time, on a much larger and more secluded scale. In response to mounting public pressure and questions over multiple potential legal violations, Texas state officials have launched multiple investigations into EPIC City and its shadowy developers.
At a public hearing held Monday by the Collin County Commissioners Court to address the growing backlash, Retired Lieutenant Douglas Deaton—a 26-year veteran of the Plano Police Department and a recognized expert in SWAT tactics and urban threat analysis—confirmed what many residents had long feared. In explosive testimony, Lt. (Ret.) Deaton warned that EPIC City is not a new idea at all, but rather a larger replication of the Sharia-aligned enclave already operating for years around EPIC’s mega-mosque in Plano. Now the head of RDR Investigations & Crisis Management—a licensed private investigation and consulting firm—Deaton spoke with the authority of both firsthand experience and ongoing professional expertise.
“There seems to be a general misunderstanding that we’re talking about a plan to build an Islamic Sharia-friendly community,” Lt. (Ret.) Deaton said. “The EPIC neighborhood already exists in Plano. It’s been there for nearly 12 years.”
Lt. (Ret.) Deaton explained that the new 402-acre project—located just 30 minutes from downtown Dallas and branded as a “faith-friendly master-planned community”—is simply a scaled-up version of what EPIC has already built in Plano: a closed, religiously exclusive neighborhood anchored by a mosque, Islamic school, medical clinic, commercial businesses, and Sharia-based financial institutions.
EPIC City, he warned, is designed to take that model and amplify it—creating a much larger, autonomous Islamic enclave operating far outside traditional civic accountability.
The project’s financial and operational structure is controlled by Community Capital Partners, a for-profit investment group formed by EPIC leadership. Public statements from those behind the project have emphasized selective sales practices and religious alignment, prompting serious legal and ethical concerns over compliance with Fair Housing laws and Texas anti-BDS statutes.
A Parallel Community with Religious Gatekeeping
According to Lt. (Ret.) Deaton, the existing enclave in Plano surrounding the EPIC mosque includes 74 homes, a large mosque, Islamic schools (here and here), a medical clinic, and businesses—all within a neighborhood where only Muslims who are members of EPIC are allowed to purchase homes. He stated that he knew this firsthand: “I dealt with them regularly when I worked for the Plano Police Department.”
He testified that this policy is widely known among local officials and police, yet no action has been taken to investigate whether this violates federal Fair Housing laws, which prohibit religious discrimination in housing.
Lt. (Ret.) Deaton described the financing arm present in the Plano neighborhood—UIF Corporation, a Michigan-based financial firm with a branch on site—stating that it engages exclusively in Sharia-compliant transactions. According to the company’s own public statements, its business model is based on avoiding traditional interest-bearing loans, in favor of Islamic financial instruments that comply with Sharia.
“The UIF Corporation is not a bank. It’s a Michigan-based corporation whose publicly stated purpose is to, quote, ‘engage in financial transactions that are Sharia compliant,’” Lt. (Ret.) Deaton said, emphasizing that these are the company’s own words, not his.
In a detailed Facebook post following his testimony, Deaton elaborated that the UIF office actually predates the mosque’s construction. The building remains visible on Google Street View (October 2018), confirming the deep-rooted nature of EPIC’s Islamic financial network.
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We Americans made the same mistake that George W. Bush did when he called Islam a “religion of peace”. We thought all religions were peaceful and could coexist with American culture, laws, and institutions as had, for example, the Hindus and Buddhists who came to the USA. Their beliefs were tolerated and respected. The Muslims coming to America knew and expected that same treatment, also knowing that Muslims would not coexist peacefully with American culture, laws, and institutions but would set up their own. The result is Muslim enclaves like EPIC.
These enclaves must be dissolved because Islam has a warrior, not a peaceful, ethos which wages war against all non-Muslims. they will attempt to subvert and then overthrow everything American. They will not relent, they cannot be reasoned with; they aim to conquer. History attests to that.
We’re finally becoming aware of that this late. In the movie “American Sniper” Chris Kyle called them savages; he wasn’t wrong.
The Founders warned Americans not to allow Muslims entrance for many of the reasons you listed. But we did not heed their wisdom.