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Strategic Patience with Turkey to Undercut Erdoğan Ahead of Election

NATO is essentially a security alliance. Its preamble, however, states that the organization is founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law. The grossly autocratic one-man show in Turkey, a NATO...

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Why Iranians in Smuggler Car Trunks Is Never a Good Thing

AUSTIN, Texas — A Fox News report that Texas state troopers caught an Iranian in the trunk of a smuggler's car who was on the FBI's terrorism watch list briefly diverted America's attention to the border crisis, until the...

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Erdoğan Turns Turkey's Foreign Ministry into his Personal Intelligence Arm

A political operative who comes from a family that runs a secret slush fund on behalf of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan landed in the number-two position at the Turkish Foreign Ministry, which has already become a focal...

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German City Freezes Relations with Iran Following Relentless Pressure

The international effort to bring a largely recalcitrant German city council in Freiburg to freeze its partnership with the Iranian regime in the city of Isfahan led to a victory on Tuesday for Iranian dissidents and a small...

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European Governments Ignore the Elephant in the Room When It Comes to Today's Jew-Hatred

European governments again this year marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27. But critics of the glaring lack of action by many of those same governments to combat the Iranian regime's Holocaust denial and...

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Illinois Taxpayers Fund Jew Hatred and Black Separatism

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...

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Trudeau's Puzzling Choice to Combat 'Islamophobia

On June 9, 2021, following a horrific attack on a Muslim family by a truck driver in London that killed four family members, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared his intention to appoint Canada's first special representative on...

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Turkey Running Covert Ops in U.S., Canada, and Europe

Turkish intelligence is scouring Western countries to locate former high-ranking Turkish police officials who gathered evidence of corruption, Iran sanctions-busting & support for jihadist groups by the country's Islamist government. From Abdullah Bozkurt.

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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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