Leftism is a slippery slope. One minute they want the government out of the gay bedroom. The next they want children at a drag show. One minute it’s my body, my choice. The next they’re ending children outside the womb and calling it health care. One minute they defend private prayer. The next they’re walking your daughter through hijab etiquette at Sunday night Girl Scouts.
An investigation by Natalie Winters has uncovered a national pattern of Girl Scout troops folding Islamic prayer, Quran study, and hijab lessons into programs run under the GSUSA banner.
You send your daughter to get out of the kitchen, learn which berries won’t kill her, tie a knot, and say what she thinks. She comes home an expert in covering her hair and a faith whose classical law still shrugs at child marriage. Leadership!
In 2025, at a Sacramento mosque event for Girl Scouts, girls were invited to try on hijabs, hear about “the significance of modesty,” and practice being “aware and empathetic” to Palestine. The point was to open the mosque to the “broader Girl Scout community” and deliver “strong Islamic values.” Troops have met there for years. Sleepovers, fasting, praying through the night because, as one leader put it, “we just incorporate our religion into the framework that Girl Scouts provides.” Cute!
Call it the green-on-green alliance. Scout green. Islamist green. Not a Thin Mint in sight. Just headscarves from hairline to ankle, Orange Man’s head on a pike, and anti-border wall posters being held by children. Campfire s’more, anyone?
The Islamic Center of Naperville instructs its girl troops to bring headscarves. The Islamic Center of Long Island says combining Islamic education with scout activity is their “prime goal.” The Prince George’s Muslim Association in Maryland invites Girl Scouts to overnight Ramadan programs where they can study the Quran and Hadith, provided they wear a white hijab and cover up properly upon entry. The Girl Scouts of the USA celebrate troops that host “Open Mosque Day for Girl Scout families,” in which they receive mosque tours and presentations linking Islam to the Girl Scout Promise and Law. And if your little princess works hard enough, she can be awarded the “Girl Scout of the Islamic Faith” medals – Bismillah, In the Name of Allah, Qurat ul A’in, and Muslimeen. Fabulous. Bonus points if you “Share Ramadan with a Friend.”
But no one’s pushing Sharia on anyone else, right, guys?
Right! They’re not pushing. They’re shoving with the full force of Allah, from Long Island to Virginia to San Diego.
But no matter where you go, you can’t earn an equivalent “Girl Scout of the Christian Faith, Jewish Faith, or Hindu Faith” medal. Obviously, that would be weird. And don’t go looking for a troop worksheet that invites a “non-Christian or non-Jewish girl to Mass.” That would be too much. Modesty try-ons and salah observation, however, are diversity.
It is a strange thing to watch a religion associated with female legal inferiority, compulsory modest dress, male authority, and — in the worst regimes — the stoning of women who step out of line, get folded into an organization whose sales pitch is that girls should become stronger, more independent, and better leaders.
What could go wrong?
As for the boys, “Scouting America” (Boy Scouts after the rebrand) is running the male version of this. Saudi Arabia recently dumped $87 million into their World Scouting Messengers of Peace, which recently held a U.S. National Jamboree in West Virginia featuring an inflatable mosque and minaret, Islamic education, Friday worship, and “Allahu Akbar” medals for not just Muslim troops, but all “scouting families.”
Send your boy to learn knots, and he comes home a junior diplomat for a monarchy that just lifted its “national ban on women driving” in 2018. Every mother’s dream.
Across the pond, things are just as peculiar.
Britain’s Scout Association will sell any kid an Islamophobia Awareness Month badge and send him/her/they/furry home with homework from the national website. Suggested activities include: learn the Five Pillars, visit a mosque, listen to the call to prayer, invite an imam, do a joint activity with a Muslim troop.
“On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God Allah and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.” Say it with us!
One of the outfits running interference here is CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. It calls itself a civil-rights group. Federal prosecutors in the Holy Land Foundation case listed it as an unindicted co-conspirator and tied its founding circle to the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee. When a St. Louis troop sold Gaza bracelets under the Girl Scout logo, CAIR wrote to national headquarters. When the badges hit the internet, CAIR called the coverage hysteria. Civil rights group and troop publicist? These folks really do it all.
This matters, because scouting was one of the last corners of American childhood that still pretended character mattered. Courage, self-reliance, dirt under the nails. These are things you don’t get sitting in a lock-in with prayer garments or a Palestine booth.
You get a girl told covering up is empowerment and a boy told “duty to God” means a specific legal tradition that, in its classical form, does not think his sister is his equal in court, inheritance, or the prayer line.
We’re quickly sliding down the slippery slope. First the exception: optional emblems, same as the Catholics. Then the hosted troop: we just incorporate our religion into the framework. Then the outreach night: try the hijab, meet the imam, share Ramadan with a friend who didn’t ask. Then the national badge that treats skepticism as pure bigotry.
Until they send scouts camping again and teach them to start a fire without a lecture on salah, tell the kiddos there are cookies at home.
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