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Free speech, a historic principle of Western democracies, is under attack in the U.K. Where law enforcement officials made more than 12,000 arrests over “offensive” social media posts in 2023.
FWI News
When Fear Replaces Freedom: Britain’s Slide Toward a Soft Blasphemy Law
Policy Exchange Conference Pushes Back against Failure of U.K. Elites
October 27, 2025
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Potkin Azarmehr
Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib had a tough time at the October 23, 2025, hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Senators did not appear to buy his attempt to repackage his previous praise for Saddam Hussein as proof of his hostility toward Iran, nor did they give much credence to his complaints that his offensive posts on social media were taken out of context or "mistranslated."
FWI Opinion & Interview
Mister Ghalib Goes to Washington to Rebrand Himself; Senators Don’t Buy It
Nominee for Ambassador’s Post in Kuwait Backtracks on Abraham Accords, Won’t Acknowledge Israel’s Legitimacy, Loathe to Admit Error on Saddam Hussein
October 24, 2025
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Dexter Van Zile
A Spanish court has grudgingly affirmed the right to critique Islam by clearing a Catholic priest who faced a three-year prison sentence for alleged “Islamophobic” remarks made years ago.
FWI News
Spanish Court Acquits Priests Charged with ‘Hate Speech’ Against Islam
Clergymen Stand by Statements against Islamism and “Radical Jihadism”
October 22, 2025
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Jules Gomes
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee convenes tomorrow, Thursday, October 23, 2025, to consider Hamtramck, Michigan Mayor Amer Ghalib’s nomination as U.S. ambassador to Kuwait.
FWI Opinion & Interview
Senate to Hold Confirmation Hearings for Disgraced Michigan Mayor Amer Ghalib
Foul-Mouthed Bigot and Med School Dropout Could Be Next Ambassador to Kuwait
October 22, 2025
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Benjamin Baird
Multiple sources indicate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has distributed information about Raheel Raza—a prominent Pakistani-Canadian journalist and human-rights activist known for her outspoken criticism of Islamist extremism and pro-Israel stance—to its network. Experts fear the IRGC has flagged Raza as a target for intimidation and harassment.
FWI News
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Targets Canadian Counter-Islamist Raheel Raza
Cyber Leaks Reveal Surveillance and Intimidation of Outspoken Dissident
October 22, 2025
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Joe Adam George
The Ahlul Bayt Mosque in Windsor, Canada, hosted an event memorializing the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in late September.
FWI News
Controversial Shiite Mosque in Canada Holds Nasrallah Memorial
Mosque in Windsor Previously Hosted Pro-Iranian Events
October 17, 2025
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Joe Adam George
The city council of Spain’s autonomous region of Aragon has sparked widespread condemnation for conferring a top honor on an organization founded by a leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, an organization that has bragged of participating in the October 7 massacre.
FWI News
Spanish City Honors Group Founded by Leader of Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades
House of Palestine Founder Named City’s “Favorite Daughter”
October 17, 2025
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Jules Gomes
Shaykh Asrar Rashid delivers a sermon at the Nottingham Islamic Centre in which he calla for “offensive jihad” against the inhabitants of the U.K.
FWI News
Radical British Cleric Calls for ‘Preemptive’ Jihad Against the ‘White Man’
Police Fail to Investigate Multiple Islamist Preachers for ‘Hate Speech’
October 16, 2025
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Jules Gomes
Southwark Crown Court, where Justice Joel Nathan Bennathan overturned the conviction of Hamit Coskun, ruling that “there is no offense of blasphemy in our law.” Coskun was convicted of burning a Qur’an earlier this year.
FWI News
U.K. Court Overturns ‘Blasphemy’ Verdict Against Qur’an-Burning Activist
Shadow Justice Secretary Calls for Guidance Against ‘Criminalizing Heresy’
October 16, 2025
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Jules Gomes
According to a growing cadre of intellectuals in Canada, this protester raising his fist at a rally in Toronto is a potential victim of anti-Palestinian "racism." Activists have used the concept of “anti-Palestinian racism” to portray criticism of Hamas and other extremist movements as racial discrimination.
FWI News
Canadian Scholars Unveil New ‘Islamophobia’—Anti-Palestinian ‘Racism’
Concept Will Stifle Free Speech, Criticism of Violence
October 15, 2025
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Joe Adam George
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has opened an investigation into EPIC City, a development project backed by the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) led by Yasir Qadhi, an Islamist who promoted hostility toward Jews and gays, and has promoted the "Dancing Israelis" conspiracy theory about 9/11.
FWI News
Texas Attorney General Accuses Muslim Residential Project of ‘Fraudulent’ Conduct
Leader of Islamic Center Behind Project Has Promoted Hostility Toward Jews, Gays
October 14, 2025
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Dexter Van Zile
The Home Office has done little to show that it is enforcing the much-touted Foreign Influence Registration Scheme, introduced under the United Kingdom’s National Security Act in 2023. Proper enforcement could prevent Sheikh Hasan Ali Al-Taraiki, a radical Shia cleric from Bahrain, from promoting hateful, anti-Western ideologies.
FWI Opinion & Interview
Britain Sheltering Bahraini Cleric Who Supports Hamas and Hezbollah
October 14, 2025
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Potkin Azarmehr
The European Commission has funneled millions of euros into projects that promote the spread of Islamism.
FWI News
European Commission Spends Big Money on Islamist Projects
October 14, 2025
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Jules Gomes
An E.U. parliamentarian has raised concerns over the construction of a Turkish-funded mosque in Strasbourg, France, with ties to Millî Görüş, a pan-European Islamist organization.
FWI News
E.U. Parliamentarian Raises Alarm Over Islamist Funding for Europe’s Largest Mosque
French Intelligence Report Confirms That Turkish Islamist Outfit Behind Mosque is Linked to Muslim Brotherhood
October 28, 2025
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Jules Gomes
Cenk Uygur, host of “The Young Turks,” a news and commentary outlet named after the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide, interviewed U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-California) at ArabCon late last month.
FWI Research
ArabCon: The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee’s Hostile, Hypocritical Annual Convention
ADC Speakers Legitimize Hamas, A Group Responsible for Dozens of American Deaths
October 9, 2025
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Dexter Van Zile
The Turkish Embassy in London was the scene of a knife attack in February. Judge Adam Hiddleston allowed the assailant, Moussa Kadri, to go unpunished after the Crown Prosecution Service declined to file “religiously aggravated” charges. Kadri had expressed outrage that his victim was burning a Qur’an.
FWI News
Knife-Wielding Islamist Avoids Jail Thanks to Friendly Prosecutors, Compliant Judge
Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service Excludes Charge of ‘Religiously Aggravated’ Offense Against Assailant
October 9, 2025
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Jules Gomes
A Catholic priest in Barcelona, Spain, is facing jail time for offending Muslim sensibilities.
FWI News
Spanish Priest Faces Three Years in Prison for Article on Radical Islam
Islamists Who Praised Taliban Sue Barcelona Priest for ‘Islamophobia’
October 6, 2025
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Jules Gomes
Spanish and Palestinian protesters held signs and flags in support of the Global Sumud Flotilla as it passed by Spain's Canary Islands in late August. Numerous reports indicate that the vessels, which were blessed by an Italian archbishop, carried no humanitarian aid.
FWI News
Italian Bishops Backed Flotilla Despite Links to Radical Islamists
Pro-Palestinian Fleet Tied to Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and Muslim Brotherhood
October 5, 2025
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Jules Gomes
In a May 2024 report, France’s Interior Ministry identified the Forum of European Muslim Youth Organizations (FEMYSO) as a ‘training structure for high-potential leades within the Muslim Brotherhood movement." Nick Timothy, a member of the U.K. Parliament, is attempting to put this information onto the radar of decision makers in London.
FWI News
U.K. Lawmaker Calls Out Islamist Links in Pan-European Youth Forum
French Report Accuses Muslim Brotherhood of Using Youth Consortium to Train Its Officials
October 3, 2025
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Jules Gomes
The British Muslim Heritage Center of Manchester condemned a jihadist attack that resulted in the death of two Jews and the serious wounding of two others at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, also in Manchester. The attack took place on Thursday, October 2, 2025.
FWI News
Muslim Council of Britain Offers Crocodile Tears over Stabbing at Manchester Synagogue
Groups Whose Leaders Defamed Israel Now Issue Statements Condemning Antisemitic Attack in U.K.
October 2, 2025
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Dexter Van Zile
Members of the al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, seen during a patrol in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Jan 26, 2020. U.K. officials maintained a close collaboration with Hamas even after designating it a terrorist organization in 2021 according to internal Hamas documents declassified by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and published by the human rights organization NGO Monitor.
FWI News
U.K. Government Colludes With Hamas Contravening Its Ban on Terror Outfit
Cache of Declassified Documents Reveal Details of Funding After U.K. Proscribed Hamas
October 1, 2025
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Jules Gomes
Protesters associated with American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) rally against Israel in Washington, D.C., on October 21, 2023. The Department of Justice today filed suit against AMP and the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) for their involvement in a protest in New Jersey in late 2024, where American Jews were bullied and harassed.
FWI News
Breaking: Feds Sue Leftist Foot Soldiers for Hamas in New Jersey
Lawsuit Opening Salvo Against Funders of Extremism?
September 29, 2025
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Dexter Van Zile
CAGE International, a U.K. Islamist group with a track record of defending Muslim terror suspects, has organized demonstrations in four English cities in support of Majid Freeman, accused of instigating violence against Hindus in Leicester in 2022.
FWI News
U.K. Islamists Champion Terror Suspect Charged with Promoting Anti-Hindu Hostility
August 8, 2025
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Jules Gomes
Defenders of Muhammad Qatanani, an imam at the Islamic Center of Passaic County in New Jersey (lower right), assert that his call for a "new intifada" at a Times Square rally in December 2017 was not an appeal for renewed violence, but a peaceful expression of opposition to the Trump administration's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The First and Second Intifadas, which cost hundreds of Israeli lives, were marked by confrontations between Palestinians and IDF soldiers, such as one near Ramallah in October 2000.
FWI News
New Jersey Mosques Celebrate Legal Victory of Pro-Intifada Imam
August 6, 2025
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Dexter Van Zile
U.K. officials have failed to confront the willingness of Muslim institutions, many of them in Scotland, to advance the interest and agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
FWI Opinion & Interview
How Many More Outposts Are We Going to Let Iran Establish in the U.K.?
August 1, 2025
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Potkin Azarmehr
The U.K. government will allocate millions of pounds to the British Muslim Trust (BMT) to monitor anti-Muslim hatred. BMT's CEO Akeela Ahmed serves on a working group charged with creating an "Islamophobia" definition.
FWI News
U.K. Government Funds New Anti-Muslim Hatred Monitor with Islamist Links
July 28, 2025
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Jules Gomes
Thirty-seven members of the House of Lords have warned that an a working group called to write a definition of "Islamophobia" could have a negative impact on free speech in the U.K. They add that the group's recommendations should be made available to the general public.
FWI News
U.K. Lords Raise Alarm Over Labour Government’s Push for ‘Islamophobia’ Definition
July 25, 2025
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Jules Gomes
The parent company of the Islamist radio station Salaam BCR has protested a £3,500 fine imposed by U.K. media regulator Ofcom, which penalized the station for broadcasting an antisemitic speech by Shujauddin Sheikh, a leader of the Pakistan-based Islamist group Tanzeem-e-Islami.
FWI News
U.K. Media Regulator Fines Islamist Broadcaster for Hate Speech
July 22, 2025
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Jules Gomes
Focus on Western Islamism
The Curious Case of Mouaz Moustafa
July 16, 2025
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Gregg Roman
University campuses in Canada have become epicenters of anti-Israel activism and radicalism, driven in part by Islamist organizations that promote anti-Zionist rhetoric.
FWI News
Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrating Canada with Help of Nonprofits
July 16, 2025
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Joe Adam George
The Centre for Media Monitoring, a watchdog group established by the Muslim Council of Britain, has sought to bully journalists into remaining silent about Islamists and their ideology in the U.K.
FWI News
Report: Watchdog Bullies Journalists into Silence over Extremism, Islamist Supremacism in U.K.
July 15, 2025
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Jules Gomes
According to the Jewish Chronicle, an imam at Al Furqan Mosque and Islamic Center in Manchester, England, prayed for protection and victory against the "usurping Jews" in the weeks after the October 7 massacre in Israel. These and other sermons in London and Bradford were cited in a report by the Counter-Extremism Group about the role Islamism plays in promoting antisemitism in the United Kingdom.
FWI News
Report Highlights U.K.'s Failure to Confront Islamist Antisemitism
July 14, 2025
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Jules Gomes
Nafeez Ahmed, a researcher who has labeled counter-Islamist voices—conservatives especially—as “extremists,” is well-positioned to influence the U.K. government’s new initiative to define anti-Muslim hatred.
FWI News
How Much Influence Does Nafeez Ahmed Wield over Anti-‘Islamophobia’ Working Group?
July 9, 2025
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Hannah Baldock
Anti-Israel leftists protest against Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems in Manchester, England in November 2023, weeks after Hamas murdered 1,200 Israelis, many of them peace activists, during the October 7 massacre. Islamist organizations in the United Kingdom have come to the defense of Palestine Action, a group which has targeted Elbit with protests and vandalized U.K. military equipment.
FWI News
U.K. Islamists Come to Defense of Leftist Vandals
July 2, 2025
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Jules Gomes
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has condemned the Trump administration’s decision to help Israel destroy the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear program.
FWI News
CAIR Supports Iran Over Peace in Middle East
June 30, 2025
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Dexter Van Zile
Mohammed Elahi, the imam at the Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn, Michigan, took to Facebook last week to call on President Donald Trump to pursue dialogue with the Islamic Republic of Iran, a regime that has been describing the United States as "The Great Satan" for decades. Elahi, who has long standing ties to the Iranian regime, leads a mosque whose online library included texts that promoted notions of Islamic supremacism over non-Muslims.
FWI Opinion & Interview
Dear Imam Elahi: Stop Spreading Hate, Tell Iran to Surrender, and Warn Sleeper Cells to Stand Down
June 23, 2025
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Dexter Van Zile
Ahnaf Kalam
FWI Opinion & Interview
NIAC Has Lost Its Mojo
June 20, 2025
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Dexter Van Zile
A report about the rape of mostly white working-class British girls on an industrial scale lacks any reference to motivations of the overwhelmingly Muslim perpetrators.
FWI News
U.K. ‘Grooming Gangs’ Report Omits Role Islamist Superiority Played in Rapes of Thousands
June 19, 2025
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Jules Gomes
The Canadian chapter of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) is building a mosque in Yellowknife, Canada. ISNA Canada has received substantial public funding and enjoys easy access to government officials despite its troubling history of financial mismanagement and alleged ties to Muslim Brotherhood organizations.
FWI News
Canadian Charity with Alleged Terror Ties Builds $6.5M Islamic Center Amid Financial Mismanagement Concerns
June 18, 2025
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Joe Adam George
CAGE, an advocacy group with a track record of supporting Muslim terrorism suspects, is invoking European human rights legislation to contest the U.K. government’s designation of Hamas as a terrorist organization. Above Hamas fighters stand watch during the handover of hostages taken on October 7, 2023, to the Red Cross in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, on February 8, 2025.
FWI News
U.K. Islamists Defend Hamas, Again
June 17, 2025
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Jules Gomes
The Ahlulbayt Islamic Mission (AIM), which is headquartered in the Cricklewood neighborhood of London, supports many of the worst enemies of Western democracies. For example, its Facebook page features the above image which lionizes numerous terrorists including Sheikh Ahmed Yassin from Hamas, Emad Mughniya from Hezbollah, Abu-Mahdi Al-Muhandis from the Popular Mobilization Force, and Qassem Soleimani from the Quds Force of the IRGC. Despite its support for pro-Islamist terrorists, the organization runs an annual summer camp for Muslim campers outside of London. AIM posted the above image on Facebook in 2020.
FWI News
Pro-Iran Islamists Running Summer Camp Outside of London
June 13, 2025
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Potkin Azarmehr
Nick Timothy, a Conservative Member of Parliament has introduced a bill to stop judges from using laws against disturbing the public order to stifle criticism of Islam.
FWI News
U.K. Parliamentarian Files Bill to Protect Free Speech
June 12, 2025
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Jules Gomes
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 Government Funding of Islamism
Texas State Government Gives $13 Million to Islamist Mosques and Community Groups
June 10, 2025
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Sam Westrop
Hamit Coskun was convicted of public disorder at Westminter's Magistrates' Court in a ruling that is a likely victory for people intent on silencing open debate about Islam, Islamism, and their impact on British society.
FWI News
U.K. Court Uses Public Order Law to Protect Muslim Sensibilities
June 9, 2025
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Jules Gomes
FWI Government Funding of Islamism
Plano, Texas, Hands $1.2 Million to Radical Terror-Aligned Charities, Including Controversial EPIC City
June 5, 2025
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Sam Westrop
Lord Wajid Khan kissed the ring of a Deobandi extremist during the imam’s visit to Khan’s Burnley constituency in late February.
FWI Research
FWI Special Report: Renewed Effort to Stifle Free Speech in U.K.
June 5, 2025
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Hannah Baldock
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