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In 2018, four years before he became Mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, Abdullah Hammoud condemned U.S. President Donald Trump immigration policies at a rally in the city. In this photo, taken when the future mayor was serving in the Michigan House of Representatives, Hammoud stands next to Mohammad Elahi, the imam at the Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn Heights with close ties to the Iranian regime.
FWI Research
The New Jim Crow in Dearborn
Dearborn Mayor Tries to Put Critic in His Place With ‘Islamophobia’ Accusation
September 24, 2025
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Dexter Van Zile
Activists in Berlin condemn violence in Al-Suwaida, Syria where Druze have been massacred by gunmen associated with the government led by Ahmed al-Sharaa, a former member of Al Qaeda. Mohammad bin Shams al-Din, a prominent "influencer" based in Germany, has taken to the YouTube to promote for Druze and other non-Muslims for his European audience.
FWI Research
Mohammed bin Shams al-Din: A Germany-Based YouTube Preacher of Hate
Syrian-Born Islamist Incites Contempt for Infidels Among Muslims in Europe
September 22, 2025
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Youssef Hisham
Leaders of the La France Insoumise (Indomitable France), which has the largest number of legislators in the leftist bloc of the National Assembly, have objected to the October publication of a book documenting the party’s collaboration with radical Islamists in the country. Members of the party, also referred to as LFI, protest in Marseille in 2019.
FWI News
Leftist Party in France Tries To Suppress Exposé On Islamist Ties
Bombshell Book reveals Islamist Infiltration into French Politics
September 19, 2025
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Jules Gomes
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, whose leaders applauded the October 7 massacre, issued a restrained response to the assassination of Charlie Kirk the day after it assailed Israel for attacking Hamas leaders in Qatar.
FWI News
CAIR Issues Restrained Statement on Kirk Assassination After Demonizing Israel
Groups that Lauded October 7 Condemn Attack on Hamas Leaders
September 19, 2025
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Dexter Van Zile
French authorities disbanded the European Institute of Human Sciences, citing its legitimization of jihad and Sharia, propagation of hatred against non-Muslims, and long-standing links with the Muslim Brotherhood.
FWI News
France Shuts Down Islamist Seminary for Legitimizing Jihad and Sharia
Seminary’s Dissolution Declared ‘Unprecedented Victory Against the Islamists’
September 16, 2025
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Jules Gomes
For now, most Islamist organizations seem to be keeping a low profile in the aftermath of yesterday's assassination of conservative commentator and activist Charlie Kirk in Utah. Some individual commentators, however, have been aggressive in their public comments.
FWI News
Islamists Respond to Charlie Kirk’s Assassination
Some Gloat More than Others—All Critical
September 11, 2025
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Dexter Van Zile
FWI Opinion & Interview
Homegrown Islamism: The Inconsequence of the Muslim Brotherhood
There Are Real and Present Islamist Threats Across America, but the Muslim Brotherhood Is No Longer One of Them
September 8, 2025
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Sam Westrop
The U.K.'s Department of Education recently announced that under the new Shariah-compliant finance system, Muslim students will no longer be required to pay interest on government loans.
FWI News
Government to Offer Sharia-Compliant University Student Loans in U.K.
Islamists Will Manage Loan Fund
September 8, 2025
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Jules Gomes
Focus on Western Islamism
Hamas-Aligned CAIR Outraged after DHS Cuts Funding to Terror-Linked Islamist Groups
CAIR Blames Israel for $8 Million in Security Grants Stripped from Extremist Groups Following MEF Report
September 4, 2025
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Benjamin Baird
The Austrian Parliament granted Islam official status within the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1912. In 2015, Parliament allowed for the celebration of Islamic holidays while at the same time banning the foreign funding of mosques in the country.
FWI News
Rightists and Turkish Secularists Oppose Shariah in Austria
Critics Warn of ‘Parallel Justice’
September 4, 2025
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Jules Gomes
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Human Appeal staff member Bilal Shehadeh, killed in an Israeli strike in June 2025, welcomed Hamas's October 7 attacks
FWI Research
Terror-Aligned Charity ‘Human Appeal’ Should Be Prosecuted, Not Publicly Funded
U.K.-Headquartered Charity Finances Hamas Terror Proxies
August 26, 2025
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Sam Westrop
Didsbury Mosque in Manchester, once attended by Salman Abedi and three other jihadis responsible for the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing that killed 23 and injured 113, recently advertised a position for a "Shariah Law Administrator" through the Department for Work and Pensions’ portal. The mosque removed the posting after a public outcry.
FWI News
U.K. Mosque Deletes Ad for Islamic Law Administrator after Outcry
August 25, 2025
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Jules Gomes
The City Council in the Spanish city of Jumilla has banned the use of municipal facilities for religious and cultural activities "alien" to the city's identity. The passage of the ban coincided with anti-immigrant protests that erupted in response to the assault of a sixty-eight-year-old many by three men from Morocco in the nearby city of Torre Pacheco.
FWI News
Spanish Christians Back Islamists in Row over Worship in Public Spaces
August 20, 2025
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Jules Gomes
The reach of the Islamic Republic of Iran into the United Kingdom extends far beyond the walls of its embassy in London.
FWI News
Islamist Summer Camp Canceled; Another Iran-Promoting Institution Discovered in U.K.
Center Director Who Lamented Soleimani Death, Lauded Khomeini, Deletes Post Soliciting Donations
August 18, 2025
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Potkin Azarmehr
The German government shut down the Imam Ali Mosque—also known as the “Blue Mosque”—in 2024, citing its role as an outpost for the Islamic Republic of Iran’s harassment of dissidents.
FWI News
Germany Fails to Protect Iranian Dissidents from Regime Violence
Anti-Regime Protesters Stand Ground Against Khamenei Supporters
August 12, 2025
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Benjamin Weinthal
CAGE International, a U.K. Islamist group with a track record of defending Muslim terror suspects, has organized demonstrations in four English cities in support of Majid Freeman, accused of instigating violence against Hindus in Leicester in 2022.
FWI News
U.K. Islamists Champion Terror Suspect Charged with Promoting Anti-Hindu Hostility
CAGE Rallies Behind Leicester Riots ‘Influencer’ Ahead of Trials
August 8, 2025
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Jules Gomes
Defenders of Muhammad Qatanani, an imam at the Islamic Center of Passaic County in New Jersey (lower right), assert that his call for a "new intifada" at a Times Square rally in December 2017 was not an appeal for renewed violence, but a peaceful expression of opposition to the Trump administration's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The First and Second Intifadas, which cost hundreds of Israeli lives, were marked by confrontations between Palestinians and IDF soldiers, such as one near Ramallah in October 2000.
FWI News
New Jersey Mosques Celebrate Legal Victory of Pro-Intifada Imam
Biden and Trump Appointed Judges Let Imam Stay, Trump Judge Dissents
August 6, 2025
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Dexter Van Zile
U.K. officials have failed to confront the willingness of Muslim institutions, many of them in Scotland, to advance the interest and agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
FWI Opinion & Interview
How Many More Outposts Are We Going to Let Iran Establish in the U.K.?
Time to Confront ‘Cultural’ Centers that Promote Islamism
August 1, 2025
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Potkin Azarmehr
The U.K. government will allocate millions of pounds to the British Muslim Trust (BMT) to monitor anti-Muslim hatred. BMT's CEO Akeela Ahmed serves on a working group charged with creating an "Islamophobia" definition.
FWI News
U.K. Government Funds New Anti-Muslim Hatred Monitor with Islamist Links
Labour Accused of Conflict of Interest for Appointing ‘Islamophobia’ Advisor to Run Watchdog
July 28, 2025
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Jules Gomes
Thirty-seven members of the House of Lords have warned that an a working group called to write a definition of "Islamophobia" could have a negative impact on free speech in the U.K. They add that the group's recommendations should be made available to the general public.
FWI News
U.K. Lords Raise Alarm Over Labour Government’s Push for ‘Islamophobia’ Definition
Working Group’s Report Will Remain Private, Lords Fear
July 25, 2025
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Jules Gomes
The parent company of the Islamist radio station Salaam BCR has protested a £3,500 fine imposed by U.K. media regulator Ofcom, which penalized the station for broadcasting an antisemitic speech by Shujauddin Sheikh, a leader of the Pakistan-based Islamist group Tanzeem-e-Islami.
FWI News
U.K. Media Regulator Fines Islamist Broadcaster for Hate Speech
Radio Station Accuses Watchdog of ‘Islamophobia’
July 22, 2025
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Jules Gomes
Focus on Western Islamism
The Curious Case of Mouaz Moustafa
Does He Advocate for Freedom or Islamism?
July 16, 2025
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Gregg Roman
University campuses in Canada have become epicenters of anti-Israel activism and radicalism, driven in part by Islamist organizations that promote anti-Zionist rhetoric.
FWI News
Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrating Canada with Help of Nonprofits
July 16, 2025
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Joe Adam George
The Centre for Media Monitoring, a watchdog group established by the Muslim Council of Britain, has sought to bully journalists into remaining silent about Islamists and their ideology in the U.K.
FWI News
Report: Watchdog Bullies Journalists into Silence over Extremism, Islamist Supremacism in U.K.
July 15, 2025
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Jules Gomes
According to the Jewish Chronicle, an imam at Al Furqan Mosque and Islamic Center in Manchester, England, prayed for protection and victory against the "usurping Jews" in the weeks after the October 7 massacre in Israel. These and other sermons in London and Bradford were cited in a report by the Counter-Extremism Group about the role Islamism plays in promoting antisemitism in the United Kingdom.
FWI News
Report Highlights U.K.'s Failure to Confront Islamist Antisemitism
July 14, 2025
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Jules Gomes
Nafeez Ahmed, a researcher who has labeled counter-Islamist voices—conservatives especially—as “extremists,” is well-positioned to influence the U.K. government’s new initiative to define anti-Muslim hatred.
FWI News
How Much Influence Does Nafeez Ahmed Wield over Anti-‘Islamophobia’ Working Group?
July 9, 2025
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Hannah Baldock
Anti-Israel leftists protest against Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems in Manchester, England in November 2023, weeks after Hamas murdered 1,200 Israelis, many of them peace activists, during the October 7 massacre. Islamist organizations in the United Kingdom have come to the defense of Palestine Action, a group which has targeted Elbit with protests and vandalized U.K. military equipment.
FWI News
U.K. Islamists Come to Defense of Leftist Vandals
July 2, 2025
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Jules Gomes
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has condemned the Trump administration’s decision to help Israel destroy the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear program.
FWI News
CAIR Supports Iran Over Peace in Middle East
June 30, 2025
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Dexter Van Zile
Mohammed Elahi, the imam at the Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn, Michigan, took to Facebook last week to call on President Donald Trump to pursue dialogue with the Islamic Republic of Iran, a regime that has been describing the United States as "The Great Satan" for decades. Elahi, who has long standing ties to the Iranian regime, leads a mosque whose online library included texts that promoted notions of Islamic supremacism over non-Muslims.
FWI Opinion & Interview
Dear Imam Elahi: Stop Spreading Hate, Tell Iran to Surrender, and Warn Sleeper Cells to Stand Down
June 23, 2025
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Dexter Van Zile
Ahnaf Kalam
FWI Opinion & Interview
NIAC Has Lost Its Mojo
June 20, 2025
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Dexter Van Zile
A report about the rape of mostly white working-class British girls on an industrial scale lacks any reference to motivations of the overwhelmingly Muslim perpetrators.
FWI News
U.K. ‘Grooming Gangs’ Report Omits Role Islamist Superiority Played in Rapes of Thousands
June 19, 2025
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Jules Gomes
The Canadian chapter of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) is building a mosque in Yellowknife, Canada. ISNA Canada has received substantial public funding and enjoys easy access to government officials despite its troubling history of financial mismanagement and alleged ties to Muslim Brotherhood organizations.
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Canadian Charity with Alleged Terror Ties Builds $6.5M Islamic Center Amid Financial Mismanagement Concerns
June 18, 2025
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Joe Adam George
CAGE, an advocacy group with a track record of supporting Muslim terrorism suspects, is invoking European human rights legislation to contest the U.K. government’s designation of Hamas as a terrorist organization. Above Hamas fighters stand watch during the handover of hostages taken on October 7, 2023, to the Red Cross in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, on February 8, 2025.
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U.K. Islamists Defend Hamas, Again
June 17, 2025
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Jules Gomes
The Ahlulbayt Islamic Mission (AIM), which is headquartered in the Cricklewood neighborhood of London, supports many of the worst enemies of Western democracies. For example, its Facebook page features the above image which lionizes numerous terrorists including Sheikh Ahmed Yassin from Hamas, Emad Mughniya from Hezbollah, Abu-Mahdi Al-Muhandis from the Popular Mobilization Force, and Qassem Soleimani from the Quds Force of the IRGC. Despite its support for pro-Islamist terrorists, the organization runs an annual summer camp for Muslim campers outside of London. AIM posted the above image on Facebook in 2020.
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Pro-Iran Islamists Running Summer Camp Outside of London
June 13, 2025
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Potkin Azarmehr
Nick Timothy, a Conservative Member of Parliament has introduced a bill to stop judges from using laws against disturbing the public order to stifle criticism of Islam.
FWI News
U.K. Parliamentarian Files Bill to Protect Free Speech
June 12, 2025
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Jules Gomes
Children at the Islamic Education Center in Houston, which has received almost half a million dollars from the Texas state government, perform a song pledging allegiance to Iran's Supreme Leader
FWI Government Funding of Islamism
Texas State Government Gives $13 Million to Islamist Mosques and Community Groups
June 10, 2025
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Sam Westrop
Hamit Coskun was convicted of public disorder at Westminter's Magistrates' Court in a ruling that is a likely victory for people intent on silencing open debate about Islam, Islamism, and their impact on British society.
FWI News
U.K. Court Uses Public Order Law to Protect Muslim Sensibilities
June 9, 2025
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Jules Gomes
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Plano, Texas, Hands $1.2 Million to Radical Terror-Aligned Charities, Including Controversial EPIC City
June 5, 2025
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Sam Westrop
Lord Wajid Khan kissed the ring of a Deobandi extremist during the imam’s visit to Khan’s Burnley constituency in late February.
FWI Research
FWI Special Report: Renewed Effort to Stifle Free Speech in U.K.
June 5, 2025
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Hannah Baldock
FWI Research
Did New Gaza Aid Effort Utilize U.S. Hamas-Aligned Islamist Charities?
May 27, 2025
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Sam Westrop
The city of Mississauga, Ontario, could host a conference this upcoming weekend where attendees advocate for the establishment of a Caliphate that would impose Sharia law on its inhabitants. Hizb ut-Tahrir, the organization hosting the conference, has been banned in the United Kingdom.
FWI News
Canadian Muslim Group Features Radicals at Annual Conference
May 23, 2025
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Joe Adam George
Tarek Mehanna, a prominent extremist who was convicted in 2011 of conspiring to kill his fellow U.S. citizens and sentenced to seventeen years in federal prison for his crimes, is reportedly teaching the Qur'an to young people at a mosque on Staten Island.
FWI News
Staten Island Mosque Enlists Felon, Antisemite, and Pro-Jihadist to Teach Children Qur’an
May 13, 2025
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Dexter Van Zile
FWI News
Ex-Human Rights Chief Sues Canadian Muslim Organization for Defamation
May 1, 2025
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Joe Adam George
Regulators in the United Kingdom are giving a charity with close ties the Islamic Republic of Iran free rein. Despite a growing body of evidence, the U.K. Charity Commission has dragged its feet in shutting down Labaik Ya Zahra, a charity whose trustee, Syeda Umme Farwa, has expressed support for the regime's founder, Ayatollah Khoemeni.
FWI Opinion & Interview
When Will U.K. Charity Commission Act Against Pro-Iran Charity?
April 30, 2025
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Potkin Azarmehr
Islamist organizations are using fear of "Islamophobia" and hostility toward Israel to stoke Muslim support for liberals in the national election taking place in Canada today. Outrage over "Islamophobia" was used to generate a protest in front of the U.S. Consulate in Toronto on February 4, 2017.
FWI News
Will Islamists Play Kingmaker in Canadian Election?
April 28, 2025
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Joe Adam George
Mousa Abu Marzouk, head of Hamas’s International Relations and Legal Office—a terrorist organization responsible for the October 7 massacre and the brutal killing of Palestinians who speak out against its policies—has hired Riverway Law to advocate for its rights in the United Kingdom.
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U.K. Law Firm Advocating for Hamas Has History of Defending Jihadis
April 25, 2025
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Jules Gomes
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