While Japanese patriots are protesting in the streets to block the Al-Qaeda-linked Tablighi Jamaat from building a mosque next to a 1,500-year-old Shinto shrine, Texas has quietly made Garland the same group’s official U.S. headquarters.
On April 12, 2026, thousands of Japanese citizens flooded the streets of Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, chanting “No mosque, no Muslim cemetery in our city!” while waving Japanese flags. They are fiercely opposing a new mosque planned right next to the historic Samukawa Shinto shrine (established around 460 AD — long before Islam even existed).
Residents fear the Islamic call to prayer (adhan), traffic chaos, parking overload, and the long-term cultural takeover as Japan’s Muslim population grows fast.
By March 2026, the city had already received over 2,500 formal complaints. Nationalist groups like the Yamato Party are running signature drives and rallies. Japan’s registered mosques jumped from just 50 in 2008 to over 164 by 2025 — but unlike Europe or America, everyday Japanese are saying “enough” and refusing to let their peaceful, homogeneous Shinto-Buddhist country be Islamized.