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French President Emmanuel Macron in Beirut, Aug. 6, 2020. Paris has been Hezbollah’s biggest diplomatic benefactor in the West.
Middle East Forum Online
Will France Snatch Defeat in Lebanon by Re-Empowering Hezbollah?
There Is an Element of Cynicism to French Actions as the French Hope the Terror Group Will Bypass French Interests in Any Terror Action
February 3, 2025
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Michael Rubin
Middle East Forum Online
A Century of Chaos in Syria
From the Sykes-Picot Agreement to Abu Mohamed Al-Julani’s Lightning Revolution
January 23, 2025
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Michel Gurfinkiel
Ahnaf Kalam
FWI News
France Expels Islamist Imam Who Called for Jihad against Non-Muslims
March 17, 2024
France's new rule to stop foreign countries from choosing imams could give more power to local groups connected to the Muslim Brotherhood in the country.
FWI News
France’s Half-Baked Plan to Fight Islamist Separatism
February 19, 2024
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Soeren Kern
Islamist flags on display at anti-Israel rally held in Stockholm, Sweden on October 15, 2023. The protest was organized by Hizb ut-Tahrir, an international pan-Islamist group that seeks to re-establish the Islamic caliphate and implement sharia throughout the world. At the rally protesters chanted "Israelis are nothing but dogs of the West."
FWI Research
European Islamists Ignore — or Celebrate — Hamas’s October 7 Massacre
November 22, 2023
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Soeren Kern
France’s highest administrative court, the Council of State (Conseil d’État), has has affirmed a ban on full-length robes worn by Muslims in public schools.
FWI News
France’s Abaya Ban Survives Legal Challenges, For Now
October 25, 2023
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Soeren Kern
Islamist organizations in the United States have followed Türkiye's lead by remaining relatively silent about China's mistreatment of the Uighurs.
FWI Research
American Islamists Abandon China’s Uighurs, Attack France and Israel
October 7, 2023
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Dexter Van Zile
Ahnaf Kalam
FWI News
Islamists Taking New Approach to Qur’an Burnings
August 15, 2023
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Dexter Van Zile
Muhammad Rabbani, Managing Director of CAGE.
FWI News
France Bans CAGE Director as ‘Threat to Public Order’
June 19, 2023
Romina Santarelli / Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación
FWI News
Tariq Ramadan, Islamist Scholar, Acquitted of Rape Charges
May 24, 2023
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FWI Staff
Members of Neturei Karta, a marginal anti-Zionist Jewish organization, took center stage at the Al Quds Day celebrations in London last month.
FWI News
Iran’s Poorly Attended Quds Day Rallies in the West
May 8, 2023
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Susannah Johnston
Free speech is under attack in France where Islamist death threats have forced a prominent researcher, Florence Bergeaud-Blackler, into police protection. Islamists are offended by Bergeaud-Blackler’s writings about the Muslim Brotherhood.
FWI News
Crisis in France: Author Writes on Islamism, Needs Police Protection
April 27, 2023
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Soeren Kern
Prayers outside the Paris Grand Mosque on Aid El-Fitr festival, Paris, France. (Photo by Robert Harding via Stock Adobe.)
FWI News
Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrates Official French Counter-Islamism Forum
March 9, 2023
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Soeren Kern
Winfield Myers
FWI Research
A Conservative-Islamist Alliance
October 25, 2022
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Sam Westrop
The European Union has provided publicity and funding to the Forum of European Muslim Youth and Student Organizations (FEMYSO), an influential Islamist that promotes grievances on the part of young Muslims in France, which has been the scene of numerous jihadist attacks over the years.
FWI News
EU Promotes Islamist Group, Subverts French Secularism
August 30, 2022
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Soeren Kern
FWI Research
France’s Islamist Challenge: A Top Issue for French Intellectuals
June 7, 2022
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Martha Lee
FWI Research
Macron Now Has a Modest Mandate to Counter Islamism in France
April 26, 2022
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Martha Lee
FWI Research
British NGO with Jihadist Ties Complains of ‘Persecution’ in France
March 29, 2022
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Martha Lee
FWI Research
Turkey Lobbies to Outlaw Criticism of Islamism in Europe
March 9, 2022
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Martha Lee
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