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Director of Middle East Forum's counter-extremism project, Islamist Watch.
Nov 15, 2023 19 tweets 5 min read
1/ A new investigation into Hamas' network in U.S. uncovers 17+ Islamist registered charities' subsidy of terror, & their fundraising of over $250 million through the 501(c) system, funded by dozens of major donors from Bill Gates Foundation to JPMorgan, Shell, Paypal and others. 2/ Some examples. Take Rahma Worldwide in Michigan, which openly partners with designated Kuwaiti terrorist group RIHS (how has the FBI not noticed this?) and is part of their "Uprising in Palestine" campaign in Gaza. Image
Oct 9, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read
For the past few decades, Islamists in the West have literally embraced senior leaders of Hamas in Gaza who openly call for genocide, and are responsible for this latest massacre in Israel. Here are a few examples: 2/ Qatar Foundation official Haya Al-Nassr with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. The Qatar Foundation is a huge provide of educational services to K-12 schools and colleges across the United States Image
Oct 25, 2022 16 tweets 3 min read
1/ A new Conservative-Islamist axis is emerging. islamism.news/2022/10/25/a-c… 2/ From Andrew Tate converting to Islam, to GOP congressmen seemingly donating money to terror financing Islamist charities, and Republicans praising radical imams in Dearborn for opposing “LGBTQ” teachings in schools, across the West, a fundamental shift is occurring.
May 13, 2022 8 tweets 3 min read
1/ Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) leader Yasin Malik has pleaded guilty to terrorism charges in an Indian court. Among his biggest champions are an assortment of Islamists in the West.

islamism.news/2022/05/13/kas… 2/ Despite the murder and terrorism charges leveled against its senior officials, JKLF is not a designated organization in the U.K. or U.S. In fact, JKLF was founded in Britain, and today maintains active chapters in multiple Western countries.
Jan 17, 2022 12 tweets 3 min read
1/ There's a slight over-focus on CAIR going on in right-wing media, with many noting their advocacy for Aafia Siddiqui. CAIR is a dangerous Islamist group, no doubt. But important to identify the real forces behind Aafia support network: 2/ I looked into the late hostage taker, who seemingly attended Masjid-e-Irfan in Blackburn. UK. This is a Deobandi mosque. Aafia Siddiqui is Deobandi. (Terrorist movements such as the Taliban, which advocate for Aafia as well, are Deobandi).
Jan 15, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
1/ Re the hostage situation in Texas, I wrote an in-depth piece for @NRO on the Aafia Siddiqui support network just a few months ago. If it is indeed Aafia's brother, a synagogue is a natural target for that family. meforum.org/62644/american… 2/ Aafia famously demanded Jews be excluded from the jury at her trial. And the network of Islamists who advocate for Aafia, as well as their Pakistani backers, have long claimed a Jewish conspiracy lies at the heart of Aafia's plight.
Jun 4, 2021 14 tweets 3 min read
1/ My colleague and I have spent the last 5 months tracking a Pakistani Houston network with links to Kashmiri jihadists, ISI operatives, Khalistani activists, serving U.S. congressmen, and a powerful network of American Pakistani Islamists.

firstpost.com/india/kashmir-… 2/ The key focus of our investigation revolves around a group named Friends of Kashmir (FoK), and its head, Ghazala Habib. FoK works out of the Pakistani embassy, with Habib closely and openly associated with senior Pakistani regime officials and Lashkar-e-Taiba linked terrorists
Feb 1, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
1/ Some weeks ago, the @IAMCouncil and its rather shrill officials expressed utter fury after I referred to them as "anti-Hindu" in a Newsweek article - an allegation based on well-cited reports and articles by such excellent institutions as @HinduAmerican. 2/ IAMC loons even tried to enlist the support of others at Newsweek and other publications, and tried to, in vain, galvanize an angry Twitter mob. The mob was small, and the writers who originally spoke out retracted their comments when they realized what exactly IAMC was.
Jan 29, 2021 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.
Oct 6, 2020 6 tweets 3 min read
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.

dailyherald.com/discuss/202010… 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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Sep 23, 2020 7 tweets 2 min read
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.
Sep 21, 2020 15 tweets 5 min read
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.
Sep 3, 2020 12 tweets 3 min read
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.”
Aug 26, 2020 7 tweets 2 min read
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
Jun 16, 2020 8 tweets 3 min read
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…

(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.
Jul 23, 2019 6 tweets 1 min read
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…

dailywire.com/news/49790/wes… 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.