Girl Scouts Takes Another Left Turn-This Time Toward Islam

For decades, the Girl Scouts was regarded as one of America’s most wholesome institutions–a place where girls learned responsibility, service, leadership and practical skills. That image, however, is becoming increasingly difficult to reconcile with the organization many Christian parents see today.

What once focused primarily on developing young women has steadily moved toward the broader progressive culture. Controversies have included transgender ideology, concerns surrounding sexuality and abortion-related associations, and now increasingly visible Islamic religious activities conducted under the Girl Scout banner.

At some point, Christian parents have to stop asking whether every individual troop is problematic and ask a more important question: What kind of worldview is this organization helping normalize in our daughters?

The latest warning sign is Islam.

Girl Scouts of the USA officially recognizes Islamic religious awards administered through the Islamic Committee on Girl Scouting. Programs connected with Girl Scouting have included instruction about Ramadan, Islamic prayer, the Five Pillars of Islam and Hajj.

Recent reports have documented mosque-based troops incorporating Islamic practices directly into their activities. At a Girl Scout-related event at the SALAM Islamic Center in Sacramento, girls were reportedly invited to try on hijabs, learn about Islamic modesty, tour the mosque and visit an informational booth about Palestine.

Years earlier, Girl Scouts Heart of Central California highlighted troops operating from the same mosque, including a Ramadan sleepover involving fasting and girls “praying through the night.”

This goes beyond simply teaching girls that Muslims exist and should be treated respectfully. There is an important difference between learning about another religion and placing its religious observances, symbols and instruction inside an organization parents may assume is religiously neutral.

This Is Part Of A Much Larger Pattern

The concern over Islam might be easier to dismiss if it stood alone, but it follows years of controversy over the direction Girl Scouts has taken on some of America’s most divisive cultural issues.

Girl Scouts has embraced gender-identity policies that many Christian families believe directly contradict the biblical understanding of male and female. GSUSA has allowed transgender-identifying youth to participate when they are recognized and living as girls, while some local councils have gone further by explicitly embracing transgender and nonbinary identities.

Consider the contradiction: an organization created specifically for girls now operates within a cultural framework that increasingly treats biological sex as secondary to gender identity. That isn’t merely an accommodation around the edges; it raises fundamental questions about what a girls-only organization now believes a girl actually is.

Christians have also raised concerns for years about the organization’s associations, materials and broader ideological direction regarding pro-abortion indoctrination.

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