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The U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned Al-Mustafa International University located in Quom, Iran, for enabling terrorism. An offshoot of the university, the Al-Mustafa Institute, is now under intense scrutiny from German security officials.
FWI News
FWI Exclusive: PayPal Closes Account of Iranian-Controlled Institute in Berlin
Berlin-based Al-Mustafa Institute a Branch of School that Recruits for IRGC
November 22, 2024
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Benjamin Weinthal
By fits and starts, officials in a number of European countries are coming to grips with pro-Hamas elements in their midst.
FWI News
European Governments and Hamas after October 7: Some Progress, Much Work Remains
June 26, 2024
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Benjamin Weinthal
Ahnaf Kalam
Articles
Erdoğan Has Found Another Way to Undermine German Democracy
May 13, 2024
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Soeren Kern
Ahnaf Kalam
FWI News
Qatari Investment in Massachusetts Nonprofit — Primary Source — Paying Off Years Later
February 28, 2024
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Dexter Van Zile
Ahnaf Kalam
FWI Research
Western Islamists Work to Build the Taliban’s Afghanistan into a Global Caliphate
February 22, 2024
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Sam Westrop
Ahnaf Kalam
Articles
Did Qatar Buy Munich Security Conference as It Bought the 2022 World Cup?
February 13, 2024
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Benjamin Weinthal
A plan to ease citizenship requirements for immigrants will likely make it easier for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to interfere in German politics, experts warn.
FWI News
How Germany Facilitates Erdoğan’s Influence
January 17, 2024
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Soeren Kern
Islamist flags on display at anti-Israel rally held in Stockholm, Sweden on October 15, 2023. The protest was organized by Hizb ut-Tahrir, an international pan-Islamist group that seeks to re-establish the Islamic caliphate and implement sharia throughout the world. At the rally protesters chanted "Israelis are nothing but dogs of the West."
FWI Research
European Islamists Ignore — or Celebrate — Hamas’s October 7 Massacre
November 22, 2023
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Soeren Kern
Germany's reliance on natural gas imports from Qatar appears to be a major factor behind the Federal Republic's failure to confront influence operations originating from Doha.
FWI News
Qatar Continues to Support Islamism Abroad; Germany’s Bungling Response
September 11, 2023
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Benjamin Weinthal
Islamist groups linked to Türkiye were heavily involved in producing a document that falsely portays German opposition to Islamism as anti-Muslim bigotry.
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Islamists Help German Government Produce Report about ‘Anti-Muslim Hostility’
August 25, 2023
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Soeren Kern
Ahnaf Kalam
FWI Opinion & Interview
Europe Appeases the Iranian Islamists of the IRGC
May 31, 2023
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Majid Mohammadi
Members of Neturei Karta, a marginal anti-Zionist Jewish organization, took center stage at the Al Quds Day celebrations in London last month.
FWI News
Iran’s Poorly Attended Quds Day Rallies in the West
May 8, 2023
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Susannah Johnston
Winfield Myers
FWI News
Tehran-Backed Anti-Israel ‘Quds’ Rallies Losing Steam
April 13, 2023
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Majid Mohammadi
A mosque to be built in Wuppertal, Germany will be controlled by the Turkish government’s Directorate for Religious Affairs (Diyanet), which Islamist strongman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wields to spread Turkish Islamism worldwide.
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Erdoğan Builds Another Mega-Mosque, This Time in Germany
April 6, 2023
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Soeren Kern
The German parliament (Bundestag) rejected two legislative proposals aimed at giving German officials more power to stop foreign funding of radical mosques.
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Germany’s Leftist Government Refuses to Confront Islamism
March 31, 2023
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Soeren Kern
The Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East is in decline in part because of the recent deaths of Yusuf al-Qaradawi in Qatar (above left) and Ibrahim Munir in London (above right). Qaradawi’s death may, however, may represent an opportunity for Muslim Brotherhood activists in Europe by removing an embarrassing and anachronistic presence from the world scene.
FWI Research
The Muslim Brotherhood Collapses in the Middle East, Adapts in the West
December 20, 2022
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Sara Brzuszkiewicz
The Islamic Center of Hamburg (Islamischen Zentrum Hamburg) is well known for spreading anti-Western, anti-Semitic, and anti-Israel extremist ideology. (Photo by Zairon via Wikimedia Commons.)
FWI Research
Will Tehran’s ‘Strategic Outpost’ in Germany Finally Be Closed?
November 18, 2022
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Soeren Kern
Winfield Myers
Articles by Islamist Watch
A Conservative-Islamist Alliance
October 25, 2022
City officials have given permission to Cologne’s Central Mosque to broadcast the call to prayer. Critics warn the decision represents a victory for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's ongoing effort to promote political Islam in Germany. (Photo by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas via Wikimedia Commons.)
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German Mosque Broadcasts Call to Prayer; Erdoğan Gains Victory
October 18, 2022
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Soeren Kern
Mohamed Taha Sabri, the leader of Neuköllner Meeting Center in Berlin, has offered contradictory statements regarding the funding of his mosque. He has told German reporters the center has received no foreign funding but is seen in a video produced by Qatar Charity stating the opposite.
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Qatar Funds Islamist Separatism in Germany
October 10, 2022
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Soeren Kern
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