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29 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Here's something that may surprise you. Despite all the talk of Trump as the most "anti-Muslim" President ever, his government gave out, on average, 3 times as much cash to American Islamic groups per year as it did under Obama.

meforum.org/islamist-watch…
You might be fine with that. Personally, I'm against all taxpayer subsidy of any religious group. However, much more worryingly, 2/3rds of this money went to domestic organizations with radical links - some $26 million in just four years.
Grants incl. millions to terror tied groups such as MAS and Islamic Relief, which are designated as terrorist organizations in the UAE; ICNA, which has worked with jihadists in Pakistan; and dozens of mosques and community centers with long histories of promoting hateful clerics.
e.g. $31k to the Islamic Center of Passaic County, despite the fact the very same federal government has been trying to deport its imam because of his close ties to the terror group Hamas.
Headline is: Under Trump, American was a leading state sponsor of nonviolent Islamism. Who'd have thought?

Many more examples here: meforum.org/islamist-watch…

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6 Oct 20
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.

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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).
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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…
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23 Sep 20
1/ Emgage, a radical, Islamist-run group tied to Biden campaign, boasts of its work in Washington D.C. to demonize India.

docdro.id/Lcu9Sv8
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.
3/ One of Emgage's board members is Farooq Mitha. emgageusa.org/board-member/f… He's also a senior advisor to the Biden campaign. medium.com/muslims-for-jo…
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21 Sep 20
1/ Regarding claims made by Jamaati and Zakir Naik-linked Islamists in India’s Supreme Court about me and @meforum, here’s a thread giving a quick run-down of the actual facts. barandbench.com/news/litigatio… @abhashankar1 @SudarshanNewsTV @SureshChavhanke @axidentaljourno @DebayanDictum
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
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3 Sep 20
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.
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26 Aug 20
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
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16 Jun 20
1/ Dear Terrorist Organizations,

Do remember to renew your website registrations.

This is the Facebook page for the Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA), a designated terrorist group used by Bin Laden. facebook.com/Islamic-Relief…

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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.
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