(Iran International) Tehran enlisted criminals to carry out armed attacks on Israeli embassies in Stockholm and Copenhagen coinciding roughly with its vast missile barrage against Israel this week, a Swedish police source and another informed source told Iran International. Shots were fired […]
(Washington Examiner) President Joe Biden’s White House National Security Council recently hosted the leader of a group with a track record of collaborating in Gaza with Hamas officials, the Washington Examiner confirmed. The NSC held a meeting in Washington, D.C., on Sept. […]
(NY Post) A Brooklyn Muslim cleric who once partnered with New York Mayor Eric Adams on a campaign to end hate is now spreading it by calling for the annihilation of Israel, the Post has learned. Meanwhile, one of his counterparts at […]
(Daily Record) A Muslim member of Maryland’s hate crime commission resigned Monday amid what he called “a coordinated Islamophobic campaign of hate and online bullying from anti-Palestinian and anti-Muslim groups.” Ayman Nassar, CEO of the Islamic Leadership Institute, was appointed to the […]
(Washington Examiner) Under Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), the state of Minnesota awarded over $2 million to an Islamic group that fundraises for a charity linked to an al Qaeda affiliate, according to funding records reviewed by the Washington Examiner. The Islamic Association […]
(Washington Examiner) Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, on at least five occasions as governor of Minnesota, hosted a Muslim cleric who celebrated Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack last year on Israel and promoted a film popular among neo-Nazis that glorifies Adolf Hitler, […]
(Free Beacon) Murat Güzel is one of Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s closest allies in the United States. A former board member of the Turkish American National Steering Committee alongside Erdogan’s cousin, Halil Mutlu, the Turkish-born Pennsylvania businessman has lobbied lawmakers on […]
(Washington Examiner) A federal judicial nominee under fire for his prior role at an anti-Israel group was a key figure at a Muslim lawyers conference co-sponsored by a terrorism-linked group that the Biden White House disavowed over its Hamas support, documents show. […]
(Washington Examiner) House Democrats accepted donations late last year from a staunch anti-Israel activist who helps lead an organization long accused of sharing ties to Palestinian terrorism, records show. CEO Hussam Ayloush of the California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, […]
(National Post) Laith Marouf, the government-funded anti-racism consultant whose record of hateful tweets became an embarrassing controversy for the Liberals, is now the director of an anti-Israel online broadcaster. Free Palestine Television (FPTV) was launched after the Hamas massacre of Israeli civilians […]
(JNS) After the Middle East Forum charged that the Fort Lauderdale Marriott Coral Springs Hotel & Convention Center was to host a Jan. 12-13 event of the “region’s most extreme alliance of Islamist organizations,” the hotel canceled its contract with the South […]
(Washington Examiner) Congressional Democrats pocketed campaign donations from a leader within an anti-Israel organization that has long been accused of being linked to Palestinian terrorism, records show. Over the last two decades, Hussam Ayloush has sprinkled tens of thousands of dollars combined […]
(JNS) Of 60 federal grants, worth $15 million, given to Muslim organizations in 2022, $2 million went to groups “controlled by Islamists or involved in Islamist networks.” That’s according to a May 3 article by Sam Westrop in Focus on Western Islamism. […]
(Arab News) A global coalition formed to counter the spread of Islamist extremism in the West has held its first conference in the Austrian city of Salzburg. The Champions for Liberty Against the Reality of Islamist Tyranny, or CLARITy Coalition, was set […]
(Free Beacon) Pro-Israel community leaders in Los Angeles are sounding the alarm over a Democratic candidate for the city’s top legal post who has spent several decades working alongside groups accused of supporting terrorism against Israel — and whose far-left views on […]
(Columbus Dispatch) The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ national office revealed more information on Wednesday afternoon about two people who came forward to say they were familiar with — and in one case, directly involved in — a plan to spy on American Muslims for the Investigative Project on Terrorism. […]
(IPT) Nihad Awad normally presents himself as mild mannered and measured. That demeanor has helped the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) co-founder and executive director appear on national news channels and be welcomed in congressional offices. But his true radicalism was exposed […]
(Free Beacon) Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) on Wednesday shared a tweet that advertised a fundraiser for an organization with ties to Hamas and the Taliban. Tlaib, who has a long history of anti-Semitic rhetoric, retweeted a post from critical race theorist […]
(Free Beacon) The State Department has cut ties with Islamic Relief Worldwide, an international charity that the United States accuses of spreading anti-Semitism. The public accusations represent a wholesale shift in how the United States approaches a global charity that was, until […]
(Christian Post) World Vision should have known that the Islamic group it funded and worked with in Sudan was dedicated to funding terrorism, the U.S. Senate Finance Committee said in a new report. “Based on the evidence presented, we conclude that World […]
(Free Beacon) Democratic representatives Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), and Betty McCollum (Minn.) headlined a conference this weekend run by one of the nation’s most prolific anti-Israel advocacy groups, lending their support to an organization that champions boycotts of Israel and […]
(IPT) A consortium of New York mosques plans to protest at the French Consulate in Manhattan this Sunday to express their rage at Emmanuel Macron’s support for publishing caricatures of Islam’s prophet Muhammad. “The French President is directly provoking the Muslim world […]
(JNS) The Democratic National Convention hosted an imam from an Islamic extremist institution on Sunday. Noman Hussain, imam of ISM Brookfield in Wisconsin, was one of the religious leaders who took part in the convention’s “Interfaith Welcome Service.” Hussain is a scholar […]
(Clarion) Islamist activist, sharia apologist and co-founder of the Women’s March Linda Sarsour is holding a coronavirus fundraiser to benefit the people of Gaza through Baitulmaal USA, an organization with ties to the Islamist terror group Hamas. Baitulmaal is listed as a […]
(IPT) Weeks after criticizing a U.S. drone strike that killed Iran’s top terror mastermind, U.S. Customs officials questioned a Detroit-area imam about his support for the Iranian regime. [Mohammad] Ali Elahi described the Feb. 6 encounter, which took place as he got […]
(IPT) Three U.S. House members have asked the State Department to investigate a prominent New York-based Islamist network and its charitable arms for possible terror financing. In a Nov. 1 letter to the State Department’s Coordinator for Counterterrorism Nathan Sales, U.S. Reps. […]
(Task & Purpose) The Philadelphia chapter of a leading Muslim civil rights group is urging the U.S. Army War College to reconsider an upcoming lecture by an Islamic history scholar over his “simplistic, inaccurate and often prejudicial view of the long history […]
(JTA) A conservative pro-Israel think tank has come to the defense of a far-right German party over a campaign ad depicting dark-skinned Muslim slavers bargaining over a naked white woman. In an article shared by the Philadelphia-based Middle East Forum, one of […]
(Jerusalem Post) A Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) organizer, Zohra Lasania, the program director of CAIR-Pittsburgh, reportedly gave legitimacy to a Zionists-ISIS conspiracy, according to the Middle East Forum, a conservative think-tank. Lasania reportedly posted on Facebook an article first published by […]
(IPT) Islam’s holy month of Ramadan began Sunday, so it’s not surprising that the U.S. House turned to a Muslim cleric to provide Thursday’s invocation. The problem is with the cleric chosen. Omar Suleiman is a conservative imam who has a history […]
(Religion News) Since President Trump tweeted a provocative video juxtaposing clips of Rep. Ilhan Omar and the falling Twin Towers, Omar has faced a surge of criticism along with direct threats of violence, both online and offline. But how did a video […]
(Jerusalem Post) Laurie Cardoza-Moore, president of Proclaiming Justice to the Nations (PJTN), called on the US Justice Department “to launch a full and thorough investigation” into Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) “possible connections to the Muslim Brotherhood.” Cardoza-Moore, an Evangelical leader who hosts […]
(Conservative Review) Newly elected Rep. Ilhan Omar will jet off to Los Angeles next month to keynote a fundraiser for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a terror-tied organization that was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorist financing case in […]
(IPT) Maybe Ilhan Omar had a point — it is all about the Benjamins baby. As the freshman U.S. representative was called out by her own Democratic Party leadership for anti-Semitic tweets implying Jewish money controls the Congress she now sits in, ideological […]
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