Saturday, June 10, 2023

Islamist to Be Ousted from School Board Posts After Radicalism Exposed

Joe Kaufman -
A prominent educator and activist in South Florida will be removed from two committees associated with the Broward County School Board, after officials learned of her ties to radical Muslim groups and promotion of antisemitism. The decision came after her connections to Islamist organizations...

Shills for Iranian Islamism Ousted from Board of UK Charity

Potkin Azarmehr -
Iranian expats in the UK who oppose the religious dictatorship in Iran enjoyed a small victory after officials sacked the trustees of a charity affiliated with Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Hosseini Khamenei, and appointed an interim manager. The UK Charity Commission’s decision to appoint Emma...

Maryland Legislature Funds Pro-Iran Mosque Entangled in Terror Trials

Benjamin Baird -
While Iranians continue to take to the streets, risking their lives in a women-led uprising to topple the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Maryland...

UK Limiting Islamist Books in Prisons Raises Questions

Hannah Baldock -
The UK’s Ministry of Justice has imposed new rules aimed at curbing the spread of Islamist ideology in prisons. The measures, announced in late...

Did the Voice of America Cave to Iran’s ‘Lobby’?

Susannah Johnston -
Voice of America (VOA), a U.S government-funded public broadcaster, has expunged a video from its website after the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) announced on April 21 that it had “initiated legal efforts” after VOA...

German Capital Lifts Hijab Ban on Public School Teachers

Soeren Kern -
Muslim teachers in Berlin, the German capital, have been authorized to wear Islamic headscarves in the classroom after a court determined that the city’s religious neutrality law, which imposes a blanket ban on sectarian clothing...
 

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

Islamist Dissent

Muted Islamist Reactions to Death of Kamal El-Helbawy

Sam Westrop -
Kamal El-Helbawy, a leading figure behind the spread of Islamism in the West, has died in London, according to a social media post by his son. Once a leading member of the Ikhwan Al-Muslimeen (better known as the Muslim Brotherhood), Helbawy left the movement in...

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...

Opinion

European Appeasers Fail to Confront the Iranian Islamists of the IRGC

Majid Mohammadi -
It’s time for European politicians to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization. That became manifestly clear and urgent on March 28, 2023 when Greek authorities exposed an Islamist terror plot to attack a Chabad house in downtown Athens. It's not as...

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...
News in Brief

Tariq Ramadan, Islamist Scholar, Acquitted of Rape Charges

FWI Staff -
Tariq Ramadan, a prominent Islamic scholar and grandson of Hassan Al-Banna, the founder of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, has been acquitted of rape charges in...
Islamism in Politics

LA City Council Set to Pay Terror-Linked Group to Fight Deportations

Benjamin Baird -
On April 17, the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to pay a dangerous Islamist organization to provide legal representation to immigrants facing deportation.  The...

Iran’s Poorly Attended Quds Day Rallies in the West

News Susannah Johnston -
Supporters of the Islamic Republic of Iran gathered in cities around the world to call for the destruction of Israel, the US, and the...

Muslim Mayor with Links to Al Qaeda Cries ‘Islamophobia’ after White House Snubbing

Islamism in Politics Benjamin Baird -
A Muslim American mayor from Prospect Park, New Jersey, was recently denied access to a White House celebration marking the end of Ramadan, prompting...

Federal Government Handed Almost $2 Million to Domestic Islamist Organizations in 2022

Government Funding of Islamism Sam Westrop -
The federal government handed almost $2 million to domestic radical Islamic organizations in 2022, Focus on Western Islamism has found. Upon cross-referencing 10,000 names against...

Crisis in France: Author Writes on Islamism, Needs Police Protection

News Soeren Kern -
Islamists have leveled death threats at an influential French academic, forcing her to live under police protection after writing a hard-hitting book about the...

Meet Hamza Sodagar, Tehran’s American Mouthpiece

Investigations Susannah Johnston -
The Islamist regime in Iran does not lack for spokesmen willing to promote its brutal ideology in the West. In Britain, the regime spreads...

Indiana Congressman Praises Muslim Brotherhood Group He Once Rejected

News in Brief Benjamin Baird -
Back in 2015, U.S. Rep. Andre Carson’s (D-IN) was forced to drop out of a panel and renounce ties with an Islamist organization that...

Tarek Fatah a Beacon of Courage for Counter-Islamists Everywhere

News Dexter Van Zile -
Tarek Fatah, a founding giant of the global counter-Islamist movement and a leading figure in the effort to update the practice of Islam in...

Irvine Mayor Farrah Khan Courts Pakistani Terror Ambassador

Islamism in Politics Benjamin Baird -
City of Irvine Mayor Farrah Khan’s first two years in office were clouded by controversies involving her relationship with foreign governments. In her latest...

Florida Mayor Goes Silent about Sponsoring Islamist Bigots

News Joe Kaufman -
Frank Ortis, who since 2004 has served as mayor of Pembroke Pines – a city of 171,000 located in Broward County, Florida – has...

Biden Staffs White House with Another Islamist

Islamism in Politics Benjamin Baird -
President Joe Biden has appointed a new liaison who will act as the White House spokesperson to the Muslim American community. Mazen Basrawi will...

Islamic Call to Prayer Now Part of Minneapolis Soundscape

Islamism in Politics Benjamin Baird -
Residents of Minneapolis, Minnesota, will soon hear the Islamic call to prayer broadcasted over loudspeakers at area mosques five times a day, thanks to...

CAIR Forces Apology from Texas Legislator Who Recalls Violence of Ramadan 

Islamism in Politics Benjamin Baird -
On Wednesday, the Texas House of Representatives voted nearly unanimously for a resolution recognizing “the holy month of Ramadan 2023” as a period of...

UK Islamist Group CAGE Justifies Murder of British-Israeli Family

News Susannah Johnston -
A British advocacy organization has justified the murder of two British-Israeli civilians, one of them a minor. The two, Rina and Maia Dee, aged...

Al-Quds Rally in Berlin Cancelled; Iran Regime Supporters Face Growing Pushback

News Majid Mohammadi -
Officials in the German capital of Berlin have brought about the cancellation of this year’s celebration of Al-Quds Day, an annual rally organized by...

Hamline U Prez Lays Down Her ‘Islamophobia’ Badge

News Dexter Van Zile -
The “Islamophobia” brigade suffered a high-profile casualty last week when Fayneese Miller announced her retirement in mid-2024 as president of Hamline University in St....

American Islamism’s Malaysian Prime Minister

Government Funding of Islamism Sam Westrop -
Under Islamist Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia now serves as a testing ground for the ideas and ambitions of a powerful American Islamist network...

U.S. Taxpayers: You Are Funding a Pro-Iran Mosque in NYC

Government Funding of Islamism Majid Mohammadi -
American taxpayers subsidize a Shia mosque in New York City that serves as a gathering point for Iranian diplomats and other supporters of the...

Erdoğan Builds Another Mega-Mosque, This Time in Germany

News Soeren Kern -
The City Council of Wuppertal, a municipality in western Germany with a substantial Muslim population, has voted to approve the construction of a controversial...

How Tehran Builds Its ‘Soft War’ in the UK

Investigations Potkin Azarmehr -
Iranian and pro-Iran regime operatives working in Western democracies are recruiting activists to participate in training sessions in the Islamic Republic. Upon completing their...

Germany’s Leftist Government Spurns Tools to Tackle Islamist Threats

News Soeren Kern -
Germany’s parliament has rejected two legislative proposals aimed at clamping down on political Islam in Germany. The sponsors of the proposed bills argued that...

World Vision, Prominent U.S. Evangelical Charity, Caught Funding Jihadis

News Susannah Johnston -
Since 2016, World Vision (WV), an international aid organization supported by evangelicals in the United States, has engaged in a propaganda campaign to portray...

Wokeness, fear of criticizing Islam Threaten Muslim Progress

Opinion Abdulrahman Bindamnan -
In higher education institutions in the United ‎States, there is a fear of subjecting ‎Islam to criticism. This fear is particularly manifest in the...

Austria’s Mosques Work Against Muslim Integration 

News Soeren Kern -
Viennese mosques are promoting Islamic separatism and actively obstructing the integration of Muslims into Austrian society, according to a new report about mosques and...

America’s First All-Muslim City Council Is Riddled with Antisemites

Opinion Benjamin Baird -
On Feb. 28, America’s first all-Muslim city council in Hamtramck, Michigan passed a proclamation “opposing military aid to all repressive governments.” Although the bill makes ambiguous statements about...

Wall Street Journal: Keep Blasphemy Laws Out of U.K.

News in Brief Dexter Van Zile -
Britain, long the world’s leading exporter of Enlightenment values such as free speech and religious coexistence, now risks becoming a leading importer of Islamic...

Islamist Organizations in the West Abandon Iranian Women and Girls

Opinion & Interview Majid Mohammadi -
If a Muslim is attacked, insulted, or shot in Europe, Israel, or North America, Islamist organizations and imams in the West will speak out....

Turkish Islamists Aim to Capitalize on Earthquake Devastation

Investigations Sam Westrop -
In the month following the devastating earthquake in Türkiye and Syria, leading Western newspapers, major charities and White House officials have encouraged Americans to...

Massachusetts Bill Privileges Muslims in State Government

News Dexter Van Zile -
The Massachusetts state legislature is considering a bill that would promote and privilege the participation of Muslims in state politics. The bill (“An Act...