1/ Activist Javeed Akhter attacks the BJP and its Hindu supporters in his column in a Chicago newspaper. This is a good example of the increasing pernicious influence of Islamist activism in American media on the question of India and Hinduism.
2/ The same Akhter appears to be director of the International Strategy and Policy Institute (ISPI), an Islamist-linked thinktank whose leadership (including Akhter) are tied to the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). c-span.org/video/?190484-…
3/ MPAC is a key institution of American Islamism. President Salam Al Marayati, for example, once praised Hezbollah's terrorism as "legitimate resistance." meforum.org/58870/islamist…
4/ ISPI's "scholars" include Jamal Badawi, a Muslim Brotherhood cleric who tells husbands they may hit disobedient wives when there is "extreme refraction and rejection of the husband's reasonable requests on a consistent basis."
5/ ISPI partner thinktanks, meanwhile, include the Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy, a key outpost of Tunisia's main Islamist party, Ennahda (a Muslim Brotherhood affiliate) meforum.org/61102/misselli…
6/ Help us submit letters to the newspaper! Write op-eds in response! Expose the Islamist links of so-called local 'commentators' such as Javeed Akhter.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
2/ Claims to have sent 5,500 emails to Congress, lead over 60 meetings with Senate and House offices, helped organize two congressional hearings on Kashmir, and lobbied State Dept. and House Foreign Affairs Committee, inter alia.
2/ The attacks come from the Zakat Foundation of India (ZFI). We don’t know Sudarshan News, and have never spoken with them before. So I won’t address their original claims; but it’s worth rebutting the disinformation put out by ZFI in its response.
3/ Claim: *Al-Medina Trust is a “miniscule” charity that “only helps the poor and needy.”* No, this UK charity that is funding ZFI has almost £2 million (well over 18 crore) in the bank. Here are its most recent accounts, filed with UK Charity Commission docdro.id/GJ1Wl8f
1/ Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) programs operate on delusion. They serve to give govt something to boast about, to advance Islamist and soft science academics claims that ideology is irrelevant, and all while avoiding the real issue. nationalreview.com/2020/09/fighti…
2/ Ludicrously, CVE advocates argue that ideology has nothing to do with ideological violence. (At least, when it relates to Islamism). They even claim that there's "evidence that people who engage in terrorism don’t necessarily hold radical beliefs.”
3/ CVE advocates deny role of ideology, and yet try to use Islam (not Islamism) to provide "theological messaging" to counter radicalization. In doing so, they turn clearcut political extremism into a vague theological problem, all while trying to avoid Islam in the first place.
British Jamaat-e-Islami charity Muslim Aid, among the largest Islamic charities in the world, is closely tied to terror and yet operates in Europe, the U.S. and throughout India with complete impunity. meforum.org/islamist-watch… /1
From Hamas in Gaza Strip, to jihadists in Indonesia and the ISI in Pakistan, @Muslim_Aid has for decades been linked with some of the world's most dangerous Islamist groups and their backers. /2
Now, my investigation for @meforum has found that Muslim Aid India is at the center of a network operating between Hyderabad and Birmingham, England, that serves to advance the financial and ideological interests of notorious wanted terror preacher, Zakir Naik. /3
This is the Facebook page for the Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA), a designated terrorist group used by Bin Laden. facebook.com/Islamic-Relief…
(continued...)
2/ Perhaps because of the tumult in Sudan last year, leading to the removal of the genocidal Bashir regime, ISRA's operations were evidently thrown into disarray. But it's still active, as its FB page shows. However, it managed to let its website (listed on its FB page) expire.
3/ So I bought this designated terrorist group's domain name. A steal at around $10.
Here's the gist of this deeply unsettling story in a thread:
1. Ahmed Taha, a deeply unpleasant radical activist who has republished text calling for the killing of Jews, is appointed to an anti-racism taskforce in Champaign Illinois…
2. Along with lots of examples of anti-Semitism, he’s also a key figure in the Muslim American Society (MAS). You might remember, in May, MAS’s Philadelphia branch paraded some children singing about their desire to kill and torture Jews.
3. It seems no one bothered to do the slightest of google searches about Ahmed Taha and his long history of hateful rhetoric and involvement in extremist causes.