Due to claims of copyright infringement and threats of legal action, Eye on Islamism (EoI) is no longer featuring excerpts from articles published by most British and Irish news sources. EoI is a news-driven website that strives to educate and inform readers, […]
Since 9/11, the FBI has frequently used “sting” operations to capture would-be terrorists before they commit violence. Some of these efforts have been successful from the FBI’s point of view, meaning that the FBI was able to lure suspects into criminal activity […]
Reactionaries have seized power. Overnight, women accustomed to equal rights are suddenly informed they may no longer work outside the home. They must be supported by men, and their former property must be owned by male guardians. Most of them, at least, […]
Why have the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) and American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) urged PayPal to cancel its planned project with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to investigate and close accounts the ADL considers too extreme? At first blush, the PayPal project may sound […]
Halal school lunches have been in the news lately. Last spring, school districts in Buffalo, New York, and Atlantic City, New Jersey, announced they would begin pilot programs to serve halal lunches at some of their schools. New York City announced it […]
During his April 28 speech to Congress, President Biden asserted that white supremacism is currently the most lethal terrorist threat to the country, implicitly downplaying the threat posed by Islamist terror. The Biden administration has yet to clarify its attitude toward Islamism, […]
The English city of Peterborough is the latest stop in the ongoing debate over a symbol of Islam’s growing footprint in the West: the amplified call to prayer (adhan). Last fall, Masjid Ghousia requested permission to broadcast three daily prayer calls using […]
Almost two years after his column sparked a firestorm, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is still being accused of bigotry for having opined that face-veiled Muslim women bear a resemblance to letter boxes and bank robbers. While the former comparison may be […]
Most media outlets are content to describe CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, as a “civil rights organization” and leave it at that, but what do they do when someone quoted in a story inconveniently brings up the group’s connections to terrorism? […]
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