Mary Rourke

Yes, thanks so much for having me, Steve.

I got a call and someone told me, hey, you should go back and watch the Kauffman County Commissioner meeting from November 2025 and then the last two in February and just see if you're seeing what I'm seeing.

And as I'm going back, you know, it starts to look a little bit mundane and it's your typical daily business at the county.

And then all of a sudden you have a lawyer come up in November or in February, sorry, talking about how he's representing a holding company who wants to come in and buy some land.

But what they really need is three water districts from the county.

He doesn't really say what the development is going to be.

He doesn't give any aspects.

He claims he's going to give all of this information.

at the next one he's not asking for the water districts at this meeting he wants to get them approved for next meeting and he'll bring all the information for the citizens to understand what these water districts are going to be used for well thankfully a concerned citizen at the very end of the meeting asked for a special you know request for a question to come up and he says who exactly is this holding company that you're representing

Are they from America?

Come to find out that it's an SCE holding company based out of Dubai.

And, you know, Texans are very sensitive to this, especially after the epic city was going down in Houston.

I mean, we've had 42 mosques being built in the last 24 months in Texas.

There's clearly...

a spread of Islam here.

And that caught my attention.

So I started doing a little bit more research and found out that in 2022, Kauffman Solar LLC, which is actually owned by NextAir, it's one of the largest solar and wind energy companies in the world.

They bought this massive parcel of land in order to be able to put a solar farm on top of it.

then now right across the road is where SCE Holdings wants to put this development in.

So I started asking around, and what people are saying is that this is going to be another Muslim community.