If you said that you organized a bake sale at your mosque, it wouldn’t be risky. If a Christian student applying to a non-religious college wrote about how a well known and controversial figure in their religion had profoundly influenced them, it would be risky.
Some students have essays inside them that they have to write. Write it now and then decide if it’s right for your college apps or maybe you’ll decide it’s an essay meant for publication in some other medium. You may also find that what you have to write on this topic would be too long and deep for the college application but as you’re writing more themes and ideas will flow out that you can use.