Islamists view the United States as fertile ground for their ideology with good reason. MEF’s research has exposed millions of taxpayer dollars in federal funding to Islamist and terror-linked organizations via the Department of Health and Human Services. On the state level, Islamist Watch continues to uncover terror-linked South Asian Islamist networks in Texas as well as an Islamist charter school thriving on millions in state funds.

Jews in Dearborn, Michigan, are openly terrorized with the help of the city’s mayor, as a nearby mosque spreads antisemitic libels and raw hatred of Jews. In Massachusetts, lawmakers push blatantly unconstitutional legislation to grant Muslims special legal privileges. Below is a selection of MEF’s recent research on these key issues.

The August 7 signing of the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement by the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan borrows NATO’s language to declare that an attack on one signatory will be treated as an attack on all. While subsequent events revealed this claim as hollow, MEF’s analysts see the agreement as a signal to the U.S. and regional allies that, in the absence of a decisive U.S. victory over Iran, alternative strategic arrangements are within the signatories’ reach.

Will there be additional signatories to the Abraham Accords or other agreements in the region? Where does Iran fit in this new strategic balance? The need for counterweights to the Islamic Republic provides a chance to see if other alliances can be forged.