Friday, February 3, 2023

Illinois Taxpayers Fund Jew Hatred and Black Separatism

Susannah Johnston -
Illinois taxpayers are currently supporting an organization that promotes the teachings of a man notorious for conspiracy theories about Jews and references to white people as “devils.” Public records indicate that the Build Illinois Bond Fund, established in the mid-1980s to promote economic development...

USAID Boasts of Funding Anti-Semitic Charity in Gaza Linked to Designated Terrorist Organization

Sam Westrop -
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which is part of the State Department, has boasted of providing taxpayer funding to a Palestinian charity linked closely to the designated terrorist organization Hamas. A USAID August 2022 “news update” celebrates the construction of a “USAID-funded Unlimited...

Sweden Closes Muslim Schools for Spreading Islamism

Soeren Kern -
The forced closure of two independent Muslim schools in Sweden has cast a renewed spotlight on efforts by Muslim Brotherhood-linked Islamists to radicalize children...

Ismail Royer Condemns Islamism, Muslim Fragility in FWI Interview

Dexter Van Zile -
Ismail Royer, a former jihadist who spent 12 years in prison on terror-related charges, spoke with Focus on Western Islamism (FWI) in a wide-ranging...

Claims of Islamophobia at Hamline University Fail to Find Support among US Muslims, Islamists

Martha Lee -
Following Hamline University’s decision not to renew the contract of Erika López Prater, an adjunct professor who had shown paintings of Islam’s prophet Muhammed from the 14th and 16th centuries to her world art class,...

Canada’s Islamists Impede the Counterjihad while Seeking Taxpayer Monies

Susannah Johnston -
An Islamist organization in Canada has obstructed the enforcement of anti-terror finance laws imposed after 9/11 and has convinced government officials to direct public funds to support Islamist-directed projects in the country. In particular, the...
 

Islam: a 1400-year-old faith that includes a great range of sects and movements.

 

Islamism: a century-old utopian political ideology that seeks to return to past glories by imposing medieval religious laws.

Islamist Dissent

Irreligious Islamism: Andrew Tate’s Arrest Highlights a Growing Radical Divide

Sam Westrop -
As the Islamist response to the arrest of social media "influencer" Andrew Tate illustrates, the most striking divisions among Western Islamists increasingly revolve not around theological matters or religious animus imported from the Middle East and elsewhere, but around more conventional internecine strife advanced...

Western Islamists Respond to Qatar’s World Cup

Martha Lee -
Many Muslims will undoubtedly have a thrilling memory of the 2022 World Cup. Qatar became the first Middle Eastern country to host the event and Morocco became the first team from an Arab and Arfican country to reach the semi-finals. However, while some Islamists...

Opinion

CAIR Leader in Minnesota Stomps on a Landmine at Hamline University

Dexter Van Zile -
Jaylani Hussein, the executive director of the Minnesota Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), has good reason to feel jittery. After coming to the defense of Fayneese Miller, the president of Hamline University, who was subsequently asked to resign for bungling a...

In-Depth Analysis

Islamists Commandeer Muslim Vote to Sweep Midterm Elections

Benjamin Baird -
A tight network of politically active Islamist organizations have employed sophisticated electioneering techniques to multiply their political power and play a major role in the outcome of U.S. elections. Aligned with the far left, these so-called Muslim civic action groups seek to create a consolidated Muslim voter bloc that...

A Conservative-Islamist Alliance

Sam Westrop -
Part 1: Trouble in Dearborn In October, Muslim protestors descended on successive meetings of the Dearborn Public Schools board, to demand the removal of “LGBTQ” books that “promote pornography” and “homosexuality” from Dearborn’s school libraries. Videos revealed angry scenes and overcrowded rooms, with loud jeers and booing directed at speakers and...
Opinion

Ismail Royer’s Journey from Jihadist Foreign Legion to Defender of American Civilization

Dexter Van Zile -
If Ismail Royer hadn’t abandoned Islamist radicalism while serving a 12-year stint in federal prison on terror related charges in the early 2000s, he...
News

Austria Bungles Investigation of Muslim Brotherhood

Soeren Kern -
A high-profile campaign against Islamic extremism in Austria is on the brink of collapse after courts exonerated more than two dozen influential Islamists of...

Islamist in Georgia Falsely Portrays Herself as Cinderella Candidate

News Susannah Johnston -
Georgia swore in its first female Islamist, Ruwa Romman, into public office on January 9, 2023. Despite spending years preparing herself for public life...

Islamists Try to Enforce Blasphemy Laws at Hamline College, Suffer Blowback

News Dexter Van Zile -
Activists associated with the Muslim Student Association (MSA) tried to isolate and punish an art history professor who displayed pictures of Muhammad to students...

Ban Afghan Women from Universities? Western Islamists Divided

Investigations Sam Westrop -
Islamists in the West have offered mixed responses to the decision by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s Taliban government on December 20 to ban...

UK Muslim Police Association Wants to Hide Islamism

Opinion Wasiq Wasiq -
A group of Muslim police officers is working to make it harder to speak publicly about how extremists in the UK use their faith...

Bridging Theological Divides, Hate-Filled Islamist Clerics Gather In Toronto

Investigations Sam Westrop -
On December 23, hundreds will gather at a convention center in Toronto to hear from two dozen “distinguished scholars & presenters” from the Muslim...

The Muslim Brotherhood Collapses in the Middle East, Adapts in the West

Investigations Sara Brzuszkiewicz -
The Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East has been experiencing the worst international crisis since its founding in Egypt in 1928. The movement is...

Oregon Islamist Declares War on the ‘LGBT Monster’

News Ahnaf Kalam -
A lawyer from Portland, Oregon has established a new group called “Shariah Defense” to protect the rights of Muslims in the United States from...

Did Ohio Just Elect The Next Ilhan Omar?

External Benjamin Baird -
The following article was published in The Federalist on December 14, 2022. As the first Somali Muslim woman elected to the Ohio state legislature, Munira Abdullahi is expected to bring “diversity”...

An Islamist-Leftist Alliance Threatens Freedoms in Catalonia

News Soeren Kern -
One of the most influential Salafists in Spain has been deported to Morocco after Spanish authorities accused him of promoting Islamic separatism and of...

Western Islamists and Fellow Travelers Echo Imran Khan’s Conspiracy Theories

News Isabella Meibauer -
Following the attempted assassination of Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan on November 3, Islamists and their fellow supporters in the West have blamed...

Tehran Threatens Iranian Dissidents in the West

News Susannah Johnston -
Iranian dissidents living in the West continually look over their shoulders, fearful of being kidnapped or murdered by spies working for the Islamist regime...

Exposed: Malaysia’s New PM Advances U.S. Islamism

Investigations Sam Westrop -
With a founding figure of American Islamism now holding high office in Malaysia, it seems likely that this important far-Eastern country will soon become...

Saudis celebrate Halloween, Western Islamists Shocked

Islamist Dissent Martha Lee -
Arguments among Muslims regarding the permissibility of Halloween are not new, but this year they took place against a surprising background of Muslims dressed...

Islamists Manhandle Journalist for Questioning San Diego Imam About ‘Hate Crime’

News Dexter Van Zile -
Freelance journalist Ahnaf Kalam, a frequent contributor to Focus on Western Islamism (FWI), was roughly escorted out of a mosque in Aurora, Colo., on...

​​Prominent Pro-Tehran Group Now Claims to Be Anti-Tehran

News Ahnaf Kalam -
​​As anti-regime demonstrations and subsequent crackdowns prompted by the death of Mahsa Amini in September turn into a full-blown rebellion in Iran, the National...

Leading British Politicians Honor Hateful Islamist Group

News Sam Westrop -
Leading British politicians have lionized an Islamist group blacklisted by the government because of its officials’ support for terror and anti-Semitism. On November 25, the...

Former Salafist Umar Lee: Middle East Islamism Is in Decline

Interviews Dexter Van Zile -
Umar Lee grew up in a Baptist family before converting to Islam at the age of 17. Living as a teenager in North St....

Will Tehran’s ‘Strategic Outpost’ in Germany Finally Be Closed?

Investigations Soeren Kern -
Germany’s parliament, outraged by the Iranian government’s deadly crackdown on anti-regime protesters, has called for the permanent closure of a controversial mosque in Hamburg...

Counter-Islamist Feeds

Islamist Watch · 21 hours ago
@Islamist_Watch
Illinois taxpayers are forking out half a million dollars annually to an organization that promotes the legacy of Nation of Islam Leader Elijah Muhammad and his promotion of Jew hatred and black separatism. From Susannah Johnston ( @suzanajohnston).
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Islamist Watch · 1 day ago
@Islamist_Watch
Rep. Michael T. McCaul ( @RepMcCaul), chair of the House Foreign Relations Committee, has called for an investigation into a federal grant given to Helping Hand for Relief and Development (HHRD), a charity affiliated with South Asia jihadists.
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Islamist Watch · 3 days ago
@Islamist_Watch
Christine Douglass-Williams: “Canada does not need to be collectively harangued by an ‘ #Islamophobia’ representative. … It implies that Canada is ‘ #Islamophobic,’ and that other forms of discrimination matter less.”
https://t.co/9RdpiBmTHG
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Islamist Watch · 4 days ago
@Islamist_Watch
“Six of the eleven Muslim schools in Sweden have now been shuttered due to concerns over radicalization and financial malfeasance.” @SoerenKern.
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Islamist Watch · 1 week ago
@Islamist_Watch
. @CAIRMN accused a local professor of #Islamophobia and got her fired, but the blowback from free speech and academic freedom activists forced @CAIRNational to take the opposite position. @DexterVanZile
https://t.co/5I32C7B1ED
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Islamist Watch · 1 week ago
@Islamist_Watch
Former jihadi terrorist convict Ismail Royer says Islamism is a modernist perversion of the Muslim faith and wants Muslims to defend religious freedom in the United States. @RFInstitute @DexterVanZile
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InvestigativeProject · 1 day ago
@TheIPT
U.S. "Palestinian Youth Movement" Rallies to Glorify Jenin Terrorists https://t.co/iYKnR6iApR
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InvestigativeProject · 3 days ago
@TheIPT
Jenin, Jerusalem and Intentional False Equivalence https://t.co/KMhnYm0Hru
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InvestigativeProject · 4 days ago
@TheIPT
Is 2023 the Year of Jihad's Resurgence? https://t.co/pn2MKylS33
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InvestigativeProject · 1 week ago
@TheIPT
Iranian Navy Expands Operations in Latin American Waters https://t.co/dzZGueHuy4
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InvestigativeProject · 1 week ago
@TheIPT
Anti-Israeli Bias Continues Unabated in UN Agencies https://t.co/LhamI2L2oy
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InvestigativeProject · 1 week ago
@TheIPT
Who Will Celebrate World Hijab Day This Year? https://t.co/CrbYjS2ZJp
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AIFD · 4 months ago
@AIFDemocracy
Correction 330 PM ET https://t.co/f8EDj2cBAT
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MuslimReformMovemnt@TheMuslimReform
Don’t miss today’s 3PM ET webinar @TheMuslimReform @AIFDemocracy

The Great Coverup:The Murder of Mahsa Amini

@DrZuhdiJasser moderates a convo on Iran with heroes of the women's rights movement @AsraNomani @Raheelraza @SoooMD and @SagharKasraie.

See: https://t.co/F2SxhxWGgP
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AIFD · 4 months ago
@AIFDemocracy
Don’t miss today’s 3PM ET webinar @TheMuslimReform @AIFDemocracy

The Great Coverup:The Murder of Mahsa Amini

@DrZuhdiJasser moderates a convo on Iran with heroes of the women's rights movement @AsraNomani @Raheelraza @SoooMD and @SagharKasraie.

See: https://t.co/RmFgwTXjgu
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AIFD · 6 months ago
@AIFDemocracy
This week's podcast @ReformThisRadio!

"Is the West Unsettled yet?"

Sir Salman Rushdie was attacked by an Islamist terrorist last week. All the questions freedom loving Americans should be asking. Why aren't we unsettled by the jihad against us?

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AIFD · 2 years ago
@AIFDemocracy
Must listen: @ReformThisRadio :

“On any other day but 9-11!?”

Biden admin makes a boneheaded choice of 9-11-21 to vacate Afghanistan. We hand Islamists the narrative for the day they chose. Also, the story on Hassan Shibly, another CAIR predator.

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AIFD · 2 years ago
@AIFDemocracy
Register for this week’s fascinating webinar now! https://t.co/4TWjbUsstg
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M. Zuhdi Jasser زهدي جاسر@DrZuhdiJasser
REGISTER now for our webinar @themuslimreform Wed. April 14 at 330PM ET! We break down the bizarre Muslim taboo against dogs as pets. Moderated by @AsraNomani and joined by @AlaskanMuslim.

“Angels on Earth: Why Muslims should embrace dogs as pets!”

https://t.co/I8GYt2q2LS
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AIFD · 2 years ago
@AIFDemocracy
Don’t miss @ReformThisRadio podcast this week:

“Lessons from an Iranian Prison”

@DrZuhdiJasser looks at the latest data on Islamist terror threats in the West. Also why we should cheer UK Supreme Court ruling on Shamima Begun’s citizenship.

https://t.co/GY1YMrnXpP
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