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Can the Biden Administration Ensure that Turkey's Erdoğan 'Stays Bribed?'

The Biden administration needs a change of tactics when it comes to dealing with Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. According to recent reports, the White House has informally notified Congress of its support for the sale...

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CAIR vs. CAIR at Hamline Univ.; Inciting a Firing

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...

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Looming ICJ Advisory Opinion a Threat to Israel at the UN

The International Court of Justice confirmed on January 20 that it had been formally requested by the United Nations General Assembly to issue an "advisory opinion" on "Israeli practices and settlement activities affecting the...

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Ismail Royer's Journey from Jihadist to Defender of American Civilization

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 interview late last month. In the interview, recently published on FWI's...

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U.S. & EU Continue Ambiguous Iran Policy, Raising Concerns

The Biden's administration's Iran policy, beset by criticism that it is too dovish on Tehran's bloody crackdown on peaceful protesters and the clerical regime's ambition to build a nuclear weapons device, is facing new blowback...

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Who Will Celebrate World Hijab Day This Year?

In 2013, an activist holiday called "World Hijab Day" was foisted upon us, urging "women of all religions and backgrounds to wear and experience the hijab for a day and to educate and spread awareness on why hijab is worn." In...

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Iranian and Turkish Spies Find Haven in Austria

Austria's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism released a new report in January, asserting Iran's regime spread its nefarious spy activities in the central European country and Austria is...

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Claims of 'Islamophobia' at Hamline University Fail to Find Support among U.S. Muslims, Islamists

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, Muslims...

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Spotlight: Republicans and Islamism

28% of Muslim Americans say they voted Republican in the 2022 U.S. midterm elections, an increase of 11% over 2018. While this trend may reflect a genuine convergence of interests around economic and socio-cultural issues, some Republicans are increasingly willing to coordinate with Islamists and even support government policies advantageous to them.

Sam Westrop, the head of MEF’s Islamist watch project, has covered this issue closely. See the selections at right

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A Conservative-Islamist Alliance; Part 1: Trouble in Dearborn
by Sam Westrop (Oct 25, 2022)
A Conservative-Islamist Alliance; Part 2: The Changing Politics of American Islam
by Sam Westrop (Oct 25, 2022)
A Conservative-Islamist Alliance; Part 3: Islamists Throw Off Their Progressivist Shackles
by Sam Westrop (Oct 25, 2022)
A Conservative-Islamist Alliance; Part 4: The Right Inches Closer to Islamism
by Sam Westrop (Oct 25, 2022)
Islamists Playing Central Role in Michigan's 'LGBTQ' Textbook Controversy
by Sam Westrop (Oct 14, 2022)
Islamists and Neo-Nazis Flirting
by Sam Westrop (Mar 21, 2022)
Trump's Curious Pro-Islamist Legacy
by Sam Westrop (Jan 29, 2021)
Violence-Supporting Islamists Given Federal COVID Grants
by Sam Westrop (Dec 7, 2020)
American Islamism Flourishes under Trump
by Sam Westrop (Winter 2020)

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