Investigations
Meet Kian Kianfar, the Pro-Iranian ‘Cement Worker’ Agitating for Mullahs in Massachusetts
A stocky, olive-skinned man of middling height in his late fifties strides aggressively on the sidewalk in front of the police station parking lot in Woburn, Mass. It’s early...
A British Warning to Americans: The Notorious “CAGE International” Is Coming Your Way
An Islamist organization that advocates for violent jihadis in Britain is setting up shop...
Iranian Regime Involvement with Texas Student Anti-Israel Protests
Leading Iranian regime operatives played a key role organizing student anti-Israel protests, an investigation...
FWI Investigation: Iranian Regime Hosts Voting on US Soil
The Background Working through the Pakistani Consulate in Washington, D.C., the Iranian government recruited dozens...
Exploring Dar Al-Farooq’s Connection to Pandemic Relief Fraud Case
Defendants and witnesses in a series of trials concerning $250 million of “misused” federal...
Two New Jersey Islamist Charities Support Anti-Jewish Islamists at Home and Abroad
Two Islamist nonprofits in Teaneck, New Jersey, are driving forces behind anti-Semitic protests in the state, while also providing financial support to a 501(c)...
Top Federal Government Partner ANERA Is a Hive of Jew-Hate and Hamas-Support
In 2014, Mousa Shawwa, a charity worker, endorsed a call on social media for God to “erase the Jews.” Ten years later, the world’s...
Rep. Torres Secures $1 Million for Oct. 7 Supporters
New York Congressman Ritchie Torres has defended his decision to secure over $1 million of federal funding for a hardline Islamist organization in the...
USAID Hands Almost $1 Million to Hamas Charity in Gaza Linked to Son of Terror Leader Ismail Haniyeh
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), along with other Western governments, has handed hundreds of thousands of taxpayers’ dollars to a terror charity...
Islamic Relief Partnered with Senior Hamas Officials, including Son of Terror Leader Ismail Haniyeh
As members of the European Parliament continued to question in January the European Union’s failure to disclose funding to a branch of the global...
Biden Gave $5 Million to Terror-Tied Islamists in 2023 (But Still Much Less than Trump)
The federal government handed another five million dollars to Islamist organizations in 2023, FWI research has uncovered. During the entire of Biden's term so...
American Islamists Abandon China’s Uighurs, Attack France and Israel
Note: In the preparation of this article, FWI reached out to all organizations mentioned in it. No responses were forthcoming. For all their talk about...
Western Islamists Work to Build the Taliban’s Afghanistan into a Global Caliphate
An axis of Islamists in the U.S, Germany, and the United Kingdom - connected to Deobandis and international terror-tied Islamist movement Hizb ut-Tahrir -...
Western Europe’s Hamas Networks Operate Openly
After years of allowing Hamas operatives to operate on German soil, German security services officials have declared a leading activist, Majed Al-Zeer, to be...
The U.S. Charitable Network That Subsidizes Hamas, and the Donors Behind It
An FWI investigation has uncovered over 260 million dollars sent through the 501(c) system to Hamas-aligned charities in the United States, provided by corporate...
Terror TV Station Established in Canada, Supported by U.S. and European Radicals
A television station established by a global coalition of terror activists is operating and fundraising in Canada, assisted by a global coalition of radical...
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Panders to Pakistani Political Cult
New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ chief fundraiser was implicated last month in an alleged straw donor scheme involving the Turkish government and a...
European Islamists Ignore — or Celebrate — Hamas’s October 7 Massacre
Editor’s Note: Following is an updated version of Focus on Western Islamism’s October 26 compilation of European Islamist responses to Hamas’s October 7 massacre...
New York State Funds Islamist Hatred of Jews, Christians, Promotes Enslaving Women and Children
New York State taxpayers have handed over $23 million to a number of divisive Islamist groups over the last ten years, including one institution...