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Winfield Myers
FWI Research
Exploring Minnesota Mosque Dar Al-Farooq’s Connections to Pandemic Relief Fraud Case
June 6, 2024
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Sam Westrop
Winfield Myers
FWI Research
Two New Jersey Islamist Charities Support Anti-Jewish Islamists at Home and Abroad
May 31, 2024
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Leo Ward
Winfield Myers
FWI News
CAIR Leader Eulogizes Bin Laden’s ‘Spiritual Leader’
May 28, 2024
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John Rossomando
Ahnaf Kalam
FWI Research
Top Federal Government Partner ANERA Is a Hive of Jew-Hate and Hamas-Support
May 22, 2024
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Sam Westrop
Ahnaf Kalam
FWI Government Funding of Islamism
Rep. Torres Secures $1 Million for Oct. 7 Supporters
April 16, 2024
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Sam Westrop
Winfield Myers
FWI News
The U.K. Government (Finally) Distances Itself from Islamists
April 8, 2024
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Hannah Baldock
Ahnaf Kalam
FWI Government Funding of Islamism
USAID Hands Almost $1 Million to Hamas Charity in Gaza Linked to Son of Terror Leader Ismail Haniyeh
April 4, 2024
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Sam Westrop
Ahnaf Kalam
FWI Research
Islamic Relief Partnered with Senior Hamas Officials, including Son of Terror Leader Ismail Haniyeh
April 4, 2024
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Sam Westrop
Ahnaf Kalam
FWI News
Islamist Groups in Canada Receive Public Funds — Thanks to a Culture of Complacency
March 28, 2024
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Michael Lewis
Ahnaf Kalam
FWI Research
U.S. Taxpayers Funding Anti-American Mosque in Michigan
March 27, 2024
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Dexter Van Zile
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Ahnaf Kalam
FWI Government Funding of Islamism
Biden Gave $5 Million to Terror-Tied Islamists in 2023 (Still Much Less than Trump)
March 26, 2024
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Sam Westrop
Ahnaf Kalam
FWI News
Islamist Propaganda Organization Promotes Divisive Agenda in New Jersey Schools
March 25, 2024
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John Rossomando
Ahnaf Kalam
FWI Opinion & Interview
Interview: U.K. Imam Who Took on Interfaith Industry – And Won
March 24, 2024
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Dexter Van Zile
Robert McCaw, government affairs director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), speaks at an August 1, 2023, press conference, amid CAIR's efforts to distance itself from progressivist causes.
CAIR to Comment?
CAIR Wins Legal Battle for SJP Leftists
October 7, 2024
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Larry Estavan
Al-Hussnain Seminary students from Indiana with radical Pakistani cleric and Tablighi Jamaat leader Tariq Jamil
FWI News
Department of Justice Compels Indiana County’s $300k Payout to Tablighi Jamaat Seminary
October 4, 2024
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Sam Westrop
Pro-Hamas activists display a banner lionizing Matt Nelson, a radical leftist who immolated himself in front of the Israeli Consulate in Boston on September 11, 2024. They displayed the banner during a September 24, 2024 vigil organized by the Muslim Justice League, a Boston-based nonprofit that has received substantial funds from charitable foundations headquartered in the city.
FWI Research
Muslim Nonprofit Legitimizes Violence and Suicide at ‘Vigil’ in Boston; Seeks to Suppress Reporting
September 30, 2024
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Dexter Van Zile
Primary Source, an educational nonprofit which has offices in this building in Watertown, Massachusetts, has deleted all references to one of its previous funders, Qatar Foundation International (QFI), regarded part of the kingdom’s influence operations in the West.
FWI News
Primary Source, a Nonprofit Organization, Hides Its Qatar Connection
September 21, 2024
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Dexter Van Zile
Supporters of Scott Hayes, a pro-Israel activist, gather on the steps of Newton District Court on September 13, 2024, following his arraignment. Hayes was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon after defending himself from an September 12 attack by Caleb Gannon, an anti-Israel activist. Without hesitation, supporters contributed the $5,000 needed to get Hayes released on bond. (Photo: Dexter Van Zile)
FWI Research
Israel Blamed for October 7; Pro-Israel Activist Blamed for Being Assaulted
September 20, 2024
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Dexter Van Zile
FWI Research
National Security Council Embraces Official of Hamas-Contracted Charity
September 20, 2024
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Sam Westrop
Young Muslims who participated in pro-Hamas protests that disrupted life on college campuses last spring will be first in line to participate in a government jobs program initiated by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). (Photo: Dexter Van Zile)
FWI Research
CAIR Grooms Pro-Hamas Protesters for Government Jobs after Graduation
September 19, 2024
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Anna Stanley
Kian Kianfar, an Iranian-born American who lives in Framingham, Mass., appears to relish his status as a mascot for the oppressive Iranian regime at protests in the suburbs of Boston. Above, he carries a banner accusing Israel of apartheid while taunting his adversaries at a rally in Lexington, Mass., in mid-August 2024.
FWI Research
Meet Kian Kianfar, the Pro-Iranian ‘Cement Worker’ Agitating for Mullahs in Massachusetts
Kian M. Kianfar, judging from his Facebook and Instagram pages, revels in his status as the eastern Massachusetts mascot for the oppressive mullahs in Iran.

September 5, 2024
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Dexter Van Zile
FWI News
Media Covers for VP Nominee Tim Walz Who Danced with Hitler-Promoting Islamist
August 23, 2024
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Dexter Van Zile
FWI News
Islamists Have a Lobby, White Supremacists Do Not — Guess Which the Feds are Targeting
June 27, 2022
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J.M. Phelps
Delegates at the USCMO's National Muslim Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill
FWI Government Funding of Islamism
Terror Supporters and Child Abuse Enthusiasts to Benefit from Expanded Federal Program
June 24, 2022
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Sam Westrop
A recent survey reveals that Islamist complaints about life in England do not reflect what most Muslims think and feel about the country. (Photo by Nevit Dilmen, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons.)
FWI Opinion & Interview
Islamists Do Not speak for British Muslims
June 23, 2022
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Wasiq Wasiq
FWI News
CAIR Welcomes Ruling on Religious School Funding
June 22, 2022
Nellie Bly (left), an undercover reporter working for the New York World, exposed abuses at Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island in New York City in 1877. Her reporting prompted a grand jury investigation into the facility. Nihad Awad (right), executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), has applauded efforts to stymie undercover reporting.
FWI Opinion & Interview
Undercover Reporting Necessary to Counter Threats to Democracy, Islamism Included
June 22, 2022
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Dexter Van Zile
FWI News
USCMO Concludes National Muslim Advocacy Day
June 17, 2022
Oberlin Professor Mohammad Jafar Mahallati Jafar Mahallati performing a talk at TEDxTehran 2019. (Photo by Ali Mirshafi/TEDxTehran - https://flickr.com/photos/93265126@N02/48314107171, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=89266647.)
FWI News
Exclusive: Oberlin’s Iranian Prof Boasted of His Utility to Tehran
June 16, 2022
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Susannah Johnston
FWI Opinion & Interview
Why “The Lady of Heaven” Movie Has Rattled the UK: The Producer Explains
June 15, 2022
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Sam Westrop
Journalists have been reluctant to report forthrightly on Islamism in the U.S. Some have even tried to obscure the Islamist motivations of terrorists such as Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a perpetrator of the bombing of the Boston Marathon in 2013 (above left), and Omar Mateen, who killed 49 people at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in 2016 (above right).
FWI Opinion & Interview
American Journalists Avert their Eyes from Islamism
June 15, 2022
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Dexter Van Zile
FWI Research
Massachusetts Politicians Enable Boston’s Islamists
June 13, 2022
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Sam Westrop
FWI Islamist Dissent
How Abortion Divides American Islamists
June 7, 2022
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Martha Lee
FWI Research
France’s Islamist Challenge: A Top Issue for French Intellectuals
June 7, 2022
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Martha Lee
FWI Opinion & Interview
Interview: Radical preacher Daniel Haqiqatjou on “Islam vs. Liberalism”
June 3, 2022
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Sam Westrop
Texan Pastor Bob Roberts speaks at the ICNA-MAS convention in Baltimore on Memorial Day weekend in 2022.
FWI Opinion & Interview
A Texan Pastor’s Shameful Love Affair with Islamism
June 3, 2022
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Dexter Van Zile
Zakir Naik, an Indian born exile living in Malaysia has called for the execution of apostates from Islam. (Photo by maapu, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons)
FWI News
UK Regulators: Promoting Death for Apostates Not OK
June 2, 2022
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Susannah Johnston
FWI News
Activists to Highlight Oberlin Professor’s Islamism in Graduation Protest
May 31, 2022
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Susannah Johnston
Brazilian politicians are reluctant to confront Islamism within their country's borders because of its reliance on halal meat exports for income.
FWI Opinion & Interview
Brazil’s Leaders Hope Ignoring Islamism Will Make It Go Away
May 30, 2022
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Sonia Bloomfield, Ph.D.
FWI Research
Connecticut Congressional Candidate Bankrolled by Libyan Muslim Brotherhood Supporters
May 27, 2022
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Benjamin Baird
U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (top and bottom right), are scheduled to appear at an Islamist-organized convention taking place in Baltimore during Memorial Day weekend. Other speakers at the convention, organized by the Islamic Circle of North America and the Muslim American Society, include Hussain Kamani (top left) who has declared that a man can fulfill his sexual desires with a "female slave that belongs to him." Abdul Nasir Jangda (bottom left) has reportedly outlined the circumstances under which a man is permitted to have sex with a slave.
FWI News
Minnesota Politicians Join with Sex Slavery Advocate
May 26, 2022
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Dexter Van Zile
Usman Khan (bottom right) enjoyed celebrity status while serving time in Her Majesty's Prison Belmarsh (left). The year after his release from prison in 2018, Khan murdered two people and injured three others near Fishmonger's Hall in London before he was killed by police.
FWI News
How to Stop UK Prisons from Incubating Jihadi Attacks
May 13, 2022
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Wasiq Wasiq
FWI News
Kashmiri Jihadist’s Guilty Plea Puts His Western Backers in Spotlight
May 13, 2022
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Sam Westrop
Sarah Haider speaking at the Blasphemy, Islamophobia, Free Expression Panel at the International Conference on Free Expression and Conscience in London in 2017.
FWI News
How Social Media Crucially Helps and Hinders ex-Muslims
May 12, 2022
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Dexter Van Zile
FWI Research
Once Again, London Has an Islamist-Run Borough
May 11, 2022
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Sam Westrop
Mohammed El-Saeiti, the former imam of Didsbury Mosque in Manchester, testifies at the Manchester Arena Inquiry on Nov. 24, 2021. (YouTube screenshot.)
FWI Opinion & Interview
UK Islamists Persecute a Moderate Muslim Leader
May 6, 2022
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Wasiq Wasiq
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