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Investigations · The 2026 World Cup, January to July 2026

An Islamic group announced 300 outreach booths at the tournament. One site called it the opening move of a conquest.

SeverityHatefulTreats a whole group as lesser, dangerous, or not fully human. Everything at this level.
Who said itAmy Mek, RAIR Foundation
Who it targetsMuslims as a whole
TrackProtected groupsProtected-group hate and political-opponent extremism are counted apart, and neither total is presented as a score against the other. Everything on this track.
What was said

ICNA’s WhyIslam project ran a public campaign around the tournament: roughly 300 booths at stadiums, fan zones, and transit hubs, free Qurans, and billboards in host cities. It's described on the project’s own website. RAIR Foundation wrote it up as “a deliberate, high-visibility dawah operation on American soil,” which it called “the doctrinal prelude to jihad” aimed at “cultural and civilizational conquest.”

Why it counts

Nothing about the campaign was hidden. A religious group advertised its own outreach, the way churches and every other faith do at large events, and the details in the piece come from the campaign’s own materials.

The invasion plot is added on top. There's no evidence offered for it and none available, because the claim is about a hidden purpose behind something announced in public. The security framing is what lets an ordinary activity be described as an attack.

The receipts

Every quote, checked against its source.

RAIR Foundation

"a deliberate, high-visibility dawah operation on American soil—the doctrinal prelude to jihad that first invites the masses to convert under the guise of peaceful outreach, then sets the stage for cultural and civilizational conquest."

The underlying campaign is documented on whyislam.org/fifa and in independent coverage.

2026-02-27 · source

One item from a pass over 33 accounts and posts tied to the tournament, from the February buildup through the July 19 final. Twenty-four of them stayed on the right side of the line, including sharp criticism of ICE, of FIFA, and of the administration. Those are listed in the full report too.

Go deeper

Hate at the 2026 World Cup

Nine confirmed items, each with its severity breakdown, the accounts checked, and the events that drew nothing. This page is the plain-language cut; that one is the whole thing, including the hate methodology that defines every score here.