Thursday, May 29, 2025 | 11:30AM Eastern Time

The Forum Roundtable: Stealth Jihad and Islamists in the West

Thursday, May 29, 2025

11:30AM Eastern Time

While violence remains a primary tactic for Islamist movements, those who seek death to America, Israel and the West also operate in more subtle, irreversible and dangerous ways. College campuses post-October 7 have witnessed severe and continued pro-Hamas and pro-jihad agitation (seemingly greenlighted by administrators and faculty members who have enabled and abetted the Islamist narratives used to indoctrinate young minds for decades). This constitutes only one obvious result of the West’s failure to address the stealth jihad that’s taking place across the Western world.

Frank J. Gaffney is the president of the Institute for the American Future and the host of “Securing America with Frank Gaffney” on the Real America’s Voice network.

Daniel Greenfield is the CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

Lauri Regan, host of the Forum Roundtable podcast series, serves as the vice president, treasurer, and board member of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East and as a board member of Polaris National Security.

Sam Westrop is director of the Middle East Forum’s Islamist Watch project.

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