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A ceremony at Darul Uloom Texas, a Deobandi madrassa in Texas reportedly eligible for a new state subsidy program
FWI Research
The Islamist Schools Industry in Texas
Texas Schools Eligible for Public Funding Include Institutions Tied to Hostile Foreign Regimes and Designated Extremists, and Teachers Who Promote Terrorist Groups and Spread Overt Antisemitism
January 23, 2026
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Sam Westrop
Anwar Khan, CEO of Islamic Relief USA, with Jean B. Bingham of the LDS Church Relief Society
FWI Research
Mormon Charities Among Top Contributors to Terror-Aligned Islamist Charities
January 21, 2026
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Sam Westrop
Officials from the International Republican Institute, a key thinktank of the U.S. Republican Party, meet in Dhaka with leaders of terror-tied Islamist movement Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh.
Articles by Islamist Watch
The U.S. Government Embraces an Islamist Bangladesh
December 10, 2025
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Sam Westrop
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 Research
Texas Faces a Far Broader Islamist Threat Than Just the Muslim Brotherhood
November 20, 2025
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Sam Westrop
Anwar Ibrahim, prime minister of Malaysia and a top official of a Virginia Islamist network, meets and embrace the late terrorist leader Ismail Haniyeh in 2024, just months after Haniyeh and his terror group planned, conducted and broadcast the murder from house to house of over a thousand Israelis, including children, during the October 7 attacks. Fellow Hamas terror leader Khaled Mashal was also present.
FWI Research
U.S. Government Provides Millions to Malaysia’s Muslim Brotherhood
November 12, 2025
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Sam Westrop
FWI Research
CAIR’s Latest Muslim Voter Survey Reaffirms Islamist Group’s Own Deficiencies
July 8, 2022
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Sam Westrop
Articles
Exclusive: Islamist Hamtramck Mayor’s Bigotry and Apparent Voter Fraud
July 7, 2022
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Benjamin Baird
Delegates at the USCMO's National Muslim Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill
FWI Government Funding of Islamism
Terror Supporters and Child Abuse Enthusiasts to Benefit from Expanded Federal Program
June 24, 2022
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Sam Westrop
Islamist Watch in the Media
In the Media
Terrorism in the 21st century: Causes, Drivers and Solutions
March 24, 2021
In the Media
Anti-India Resolution Backed by Islamists and the Left in Chicago City Council Defeated
March 24, 2021
In the Media
IAMC: A Breaking India Organization
March 24, 2021
In the Media
Biden Economic Policy Advisor Linked to Kashmiri Extremists
March 10, 2021
In the Media
Over anti-Semitism, US State Department ends ties with Islamic charity
January 19, 2021
In the Media
US State Department cuts ties with IRW due to antisemitism allegations
January 19, 2021
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Reports
July 31, 2024
More from MEF
If the Saudi pivot is a strategy, the Red Sea littoral is its primary theater of application; if the Abraham Accords represented a vision of an integrated regional order anchored in normalization and infrastructure interdependence, the Red Sea is where that vision encounters the structural obstacles to its realization.
Middle East Forum Online
Contested Order: The Structure of End-State Competition in the Red Sea
February 1, 2026
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Hussein Aboubakr Mansour
By allowing or facilitating the movement of radical elements toward the coast, unstable regimes in North Africa and the Levant gain a powerful bargaining chip against Europe. Their message is clear: “Fund our reconstruction and legitimize our rule, or the next boat to Lampedusa will carry more than just economic migrants.” Image: Iron boat used by migrants smugglers to arrive on the island of Lampedusa, Italy.
Middle East Forum Online
How Post-Assad Chaos and North African Smugglers Collide
The Diplomatic Veneer of the ‘New Syria’ Began to Crack, Revealing a Security Nightmare That the West Has Spent a Decade Trying to Prevent
February 1, 2026
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Amine Ayoub
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei reportedly has been in hiding since Israel's airstrikes began in June 2025.
Middle East Forum Observer
Khamenei Raises Specter of Regional War Amid Unrest at Home
Reports Indicated That Tehran May Be Willing to Give up Its Stockpile of Enriched Uranium to Prevent a U.S. Attack
February 1, 2026
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Mardo Soghom
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