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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.
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Thank you for your support for our work fighting the influence of Jamaat-e-Islami, Tablighi Jamaat in both India and the U.S. We're half way to our fundraising goal for our next few months of research. Please share this link further (and donate!)
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My colleague Martha Lee investigates shadowy @standwkashmir movement, which, she found, advocates for Al Qaeda and Hizbul Mujahideen linked terrorists. Will American policymakers and media continue to treat it as just some peace activist group?
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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.
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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.
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3) The Reach Education Fund in Illinois, whose leading official glorifies Nazism, posting a swastika and referring to himself as a follower of Hitler, celebrating the genocide of Jews
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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. /1
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18) Share this report. Retweet this thread. Place pressure on your representatives, and these corporation foundations and other big donors to stop subsidizing terror. They've been duped. Then let's shut down these terror subsidizers.
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Sam Westrop
3 years
Masood Khan has just been appointed Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States. He is an overt supporter of terror. His links to jihadists are numerous. Were he not a diplomat, he'd likely be on a no-fly list. The Biden administration should reject him.
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2 years
1/ Mobs of masked men surrounding Hindu temples in Leicester have not come out of nowhere. @AhnafKalam reveals the huge @ISNAHQ conference earlier this month featured panels and literature painting Hindus & Indian government as Nazis and scum
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11 months
17) This report has uncovered many more flagrant instances of U.S. Islamist charities funding Hamas proxies, employing staff who glorify Hamas's evil, and and working with designated terror groups directly. It's time for the FBI to act. It's time for Congress to act.
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4) Baitulmaal in Texas, which funds an array of Hamas proxies in Gaza. It was officials include former Taliban fundraisers and hardline activists shared praise of "martyrs" who killed Jews
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Sam Westrop
3 years
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.
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4 years
Stand With Kashmir "calls for the immediate release of all Kashmiri prisoners," and yet several have been involved with Al Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Hizbul-Mujahideen.
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5) Islamic Relief in VA and CA, whose overseas branches openly fund Hamas proxies, and which the U.S. State Department has condemned for “blatant and horrifying anti-Semitism and glorification of violence exhibited at the most senior levels"
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15) ... a huge assortment of major corporate foundations and major employee-giving and donation platforms. Here are the worst funders of these Hamas-aligned charities. Recognize any names?
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8) American Muslims for Palestine, whose official Taher Herzallah, recently paused after talking about embracing anti-Zionist Jews only to remind his audience that "Jews" remain "enemy number one"
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14) Who is funding all these organizations? Our data shows as much as $100 million from the federal government through poorly managed @USAID programs, but an astonishing $260 million comes from ...
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6) Islamic Relief franchise's founder, meanwhile, in an interview with Hamas's official radio station, urged cooperation between charities and the Hamas "government". And here's Islamic Relief's logo at a Hamas rally in Gaza:
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11) International Humanitarian Relief, whose founder praised the October 7th attacks and wished the resistance "victory"
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16) There's lots more examples in our major new report here. Look out for other big corporations and their foundations, belonging to JPMorgan, Bank of America, Shell, Morgan Stanley, among others.
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9) Pious Projects of America in Chicago, which admits openly to having handed Hamas's Ministry of Health $50,000
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Sam Westrop
4 years
1/ American Islamists have firmly set their sights on India. The Dallas-Fort Worth branch of the terror-tied Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-DFW) is looking to hire interns to "monitor the troubling rise of Hindutva activities in the U.S."
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7) ANERA, whose staff member in Gaza has venerated the Hamas founder Sheikh Yassin, posting pictures of the terrorist leader.
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Sam Westrop
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2/ Islamists, linked to Pakistani regime, are urging Western Muslims to oppose Hindus here in the West. Leicester is just one example of many to come, we fear. Read @AhnafKalam 's report from the ISNA conference at @FWIslamism :
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13) Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, which advertises in Hamas newspapers and runs part of the Al-Rantisi Children’s Hospital in Gaza, which today Israel found housed “a Hamas ‘command and control center’ and may have been used to hold hostages.” Weapons caches were also found.
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10) Heroic Hearts, whose “program coordinator,” Omar Hammad, is a unabashed supporter of Hamas founder Sheikh Yassin.
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12) Helping Hand for Relief and Development in Michigan, which funds a Hamas proxy and whose chief partner in Pakistan, Al-Khidmat, is a proud financier of Hamas.
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Sam Westrop
5 years
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…
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Sam Westrop
4 years
1/ Emgage, a radical, Islamist-run group tied to Biden campaign, boasts of its work in Washington D.C. to demonize India.
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3 years
Blocked! Why? Just because I generated international media furor over his appointment, letters from American congressmen, delaying tactics by the State Department, and angry claims of a conspiracy from Pakistani officials? Rather touchy, isn't he?
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Sam Westrop
3 years
The prominent 'academic' Audrey Trushcke conflates factual statement with malicious conspiracy, because the latter suits her rather thin worldview. A common deficiency of the social sciences; also a crucial underlying tactic of radical activism.
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1 year
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:
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Sam Westrop
4 years
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 .
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3/ Now, my colleague @BenjiBaird has published a *devastating* exposé of @IAMCouncil and its officials, showing its outrageous racism and anti-Hindu rhetoric, and ties to violent activists.
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1/ Western Islamist charities that work with terror-tied Jamaat-e-Islami cells and Pakistani-backed terrorists such as Lashkar-e-Taiba continue to spend millions of dollars on the ground in India. It's time for the Indian government to ban these dangerous institutions
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Sam Westrop
4 years
Well. This is interesting. Infamous anti-India activist and self-proclaimed 'expert' Pieter Friedrich ( @FriedrichPieter ) appears also to be an overt anti-Semite. (first noticed by @nitayuvani )
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3/ CAIR-DFW was originally founded as CAIR-Texas by Ghassan Elashi, who was was sentenced to 65 years in prison for his role in funneling $12 million to Hamas. (In connection with this, CAIR was named by federal prosecutors as an unindicted coconspirator)
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2/ It continues: "This will include collecting stories of Americans who were intimidated by Hindutva supporters and monitor events, rallies, and other programs in support of Hindutva ideology. … Interns may receive academic credit or community service hours"
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Sam Westrop
4 years
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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Sam Westrop
3 years
13/ Also see coverage by @AartiTikoo for IANS, picked up by dozens of newspapers around the world.
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Sam Westrop
3 years
Dr Yasir Nadeem Al Wajidi, one of the leading Deobandi clerics in the United States, declares: "Congratulations to #Taliban and the people of Afghanistan on the rebirth of the Islamic Emirate!"
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Sam Westrop
3 years
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
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Sam Westrop
4 years
The brilliant @abhashankar1 writes on the anti-Hindu, anti-Semitic jihadist rhetoric once again found at the heart of American Islamism.
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Sam Westrop
4 years
My latest scoop: of the $1 million in grants given out by the federal government's SBA, recipients included dangerous radicals tied to South Asian violent extremists with long histories of violent ties.
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“COVID Relief Funds Went to Violent Extremists,” explains ⁦ @samwestrop ⁩ in today’s ⁦ @NewsweekOpinion ⁩.
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4 years
1/ Our effort to stop Islamist and Khalistani activists passing an anti-Indian resolution in Chicago paid off!
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1) Thanks to everyone who signed up to send letters to @ChiCouncil opposing its divisive anti-India resolution and persuading the aldermen to vote 26-18 against it. Your participation was instrumental in striking a blow to #Islamist special interests. @meforum @Islamist_Watch
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3 years
12/ There’s much more to this story. Read the full investigation here:
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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.
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3/ In fact, Habib is also the appointed U.S. representative of prominent jihadists involved with the separatist All Huriyat Alliance, such as Syed Ali Gilani, former ‘head of jihad’ for Jamaat-e-Islami; and Asiya Andrabi, the head of banned jihadist outfit Dukhtaran-e-Millat.
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4/ In fact, he was brought into to replace a Hindu campaign official after the Islamists organized a campaign against him.
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4/ We never felt any heat from this nasty little far-Right group's attempt at a campaign against us (only just found out about all of it, weeks later), but important to push back these theo-fascists when possible - and @BenjiBaird has done exactly that.
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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.
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3 years
4/ We can link this Houston network not just to a whole array of Sikh separatists, PTI officials and Jamaat-e-Islami Islamists, but also to big Pakistani regime proxies in the U.S. such as the APPNA and PAKPAC.
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7/ Indian-Americans (and everyone) *must* fight back against this. Don't let Islamist disinformation win, or you may have 4-8 years of anti-Hindu, anti-Indian extremists working out of federal departments, or advising at the White House.
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3 years
5/ Both groups are close to Imran Khan and his party, and which work, alongside a network of private Pakistani American businessmen, to influence financially and politically a number of American politicians, including the heads of the U.S. Congress’s Pakistan Caucus.
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Sam Westrop
3 years
6/ One firm that works closely with FoK is the International Humanitarian Foundation (IHF), a group controlled by senior PTI officials, one of whom is a personal representative of Imran Khan. IHF was a key player organizing the big anti-Modi protests in Houston in September 2019
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Sam Westrop
4 years
1/ Uh-oh. Biden's newly-announced White House pick, Sameera Fazili, appears to be closely involved with the terror-tied Stand With Kashmir movement.
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Sam Westrop
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2/ Dawat-e-Islami, and Barelvis, are often held up as moderates in contrast to the more overtly extreme minority Deobandi movement. But that's just not the case.
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7/ IHF has a lot of money. Justice Dept. documents show that it hired Fenton Communications, a big DC lobbying firm, paying its tens of thousands. In addition, IHF took out NY Times advertisements, likely costing hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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3 years
By dressing everything in hysterical terms and offering endless comparisons of Hindus to Nazis and Modi to Hitler, no wonder she rubs shoulders with Islamists, Christian fundamentalists and other purveyors of anti-Hindu hate. One wonders how she personally justifies it though.
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Sam Westrop
5 years
6. How have we got to the point where journalists and politicians openly embrace someone who republished violent rhetoric against a minority because it suits a ‘progressive’ political agenda? This is madness.
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4 years
3/ Dawat-e-Islami have long been involved in the persecution of the minority Ahmadi Muslim sect, with the very same Qadri having endorsed the punishment of death for the 'crime' of blasphemy, and stating that those who murder blasphemers should not be punished.
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Sam Westrop
3 years
The full report can be read here, containing a detailed look into all the main Khalistani groups operating in the United States:
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3/ One of Emgage's board members is Farooq Mitha. He's also a senior advisor to the Biden campaign.
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11/ Other speakers included alleged ISI agents, radical Kashmiri activists such as Riffat Wani, and the notorious anti-Jewish, Islamist British peer, Lord Ahmed, who was recently forced out of the House of Lords amid accusations of criminality.
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9/ This incestuous, close-knit network features a small group of officials, who between them manage dozens of nonprofits and businesses. Many of them are key donors to the two heads of the Pakistani congressional caucus.
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8/ Meanwhile, back in Houston, IHF and a whole bunch of groups tied to FoK and a big local Pakistani mosque with Islamist ties, are all based out of or linked to a single Houston address.
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Sam Westrop
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4/ In fact, one of Pakistan's other leading Barlevi leaders, Tahir ul-Qadri, was responsible for introducing the death penalty as punishment for blasphemy in Pakistan, claiming that blasphemers should be “murdered and kicked like a dog into hellfire.”
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6/ Dawat-e-Islami is also active in India, but, crucially, is opposed by moderate Muslims in India, who have noted that it works to spread sectarian division. And Indian law enforcement have shut down their activities in the past. .
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Sam Westrop
3 years
Happening right now - my colleague Benjamin Baird discusses Jewish-Hindu collaboration in fighting international Islamism.
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Join @Islamist_Watch Deputy Director @BenjiBaird as he hosts Dr. Richard Benkin in a discussion about Jewish and Hindu solidarity in the face of Islamist threats. Friday at 1pm EDT. @meforum @HinduAmericans
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Sam Westrop
3 years
6/ And even if it turns out not to be Aafia's brother, this development proves the network dedicated to her release remains extremely dangerous. Astonishing that they are able to operate registered charities (along with the various public benefits that affords) so openly.
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Sam Westrop
4 years
7/ And Dawat has a substantial presence in the United States, with around a dozen mosques and groups in the United States directly affiliated with the group. Here are some of them:
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Sam Westrop
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10/ Dawat-e-Islami is a dangerous group, which has operated under the pretense of apolitical quietism for decades. And yet, almost certainly, not a single federal official is monitoring its activities in the U.S. We need to change that.
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Sam Westrop
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10/ These two congressmembers, Reps. Jackson Lee and Banks, took part in a 2020 FoK webinar, hosted by the Pakistani consulate, which featured radical Kashmiri activists and representatives of Khalistani organization Sikhs for Justice, banned in India because of terrorism ties.
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Sam Westrop
3 years
As with much of the anti-Semitic industry within Western academia, Trushcke apparently works hard to combine both. A shame really. Because, as with any ideology, there's plenty to critique and discuss. Especially something as interesting and relevant as modern Indian politics.
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3 years
1/ Across Pakistan, the anniversary of the terrorist Burhan Wani's death in a shootout with Indian law enforcement is marked by praise of violent Kashmiri "resistance".
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6/ It seems likely these anti-Indian extremists will have access to a Biden White House if he wins in November. But the Biden campaign is not intrinsically anti-Indian; Islamists instead find its sheer naivety on the subject far too easy to exploit.
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Stand With Kashmir claims its website has been blocked in India! Undoubtedly the result of the revelations uncovered by my colleague Martha Lee in our discovery of this radical group's ties to Kashmiri jihadists
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5/ Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer was murdered by a Dawat-e-Islami member, leading even the Pakistani authorities to attempt to curb the influence of the group.
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Sam Westrop
4 years
Yet another example of American Islamists using the Islamophobia narrative to go after India, this time with the help of groups linked to the Turkish regime.
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Göç Araştırmaları Vakfı
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Within the scope of İDMAM seminar series on Islamophobia in India, we want to invite you for our second seminar. This week we will listen to Dr. Hatem Bazian ( @HatemBazian ). Please follow the link for registration: #Islamophobia_in_india #İDMAMseminar
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4 years
1/ This CAIR-backed candidate rather sums up the fascinating growth of both progressivism and Islamism, sometimes in cahoots, within a significant portion of American Islam right now.
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Sam Westrop
4 years
Makes sense, given his extremely close links with the hate-preaching, terror-tied Indian American Muslim Council.
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Rajiv Pandit
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Hey @FriedrichPieter , before you harangue an actual journalist @ChadDWashington , maybe you want to disclose that you’re not actually neutral or a journalist. Just own up to being paid by @IAMCouncil 's co-founder to attack Hindu candidates like Sri Kulkarni across the country.
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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.
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3 years
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.
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Sam Westrop
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8/ In the U.S, it is closely involved with Khatm-e-Nubuwwat (KN), a group (run by both Deobandis and Barelvis) dedicated to killing Ahmadi Muslims. I wrote about several American Dawat-e-Islami groups involved with this conference:
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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.
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3 years
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:
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Mehdi Hasan, a Qatari regime favorite who previously compared homosexuals to pedophiles, has now been offered star roles by both NBC's @peacockTV and @MSNBC .
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In the U.S, Jamaat-e-Islami's ICNA and the Qatar regime's Al Jazeera confirm the new international Islamist agenda: India is the new Israel - its people are to be hated; Kashmir is the new Gaza - its jihadists are to be justified.
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Sam Westrop
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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.
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@DrAmbardar @HinduAmerican Hindu community needs to set up a Hindu version of @Islamist_Watch or the @TheIPT . We need articles, databases of the networks behind this insidious Islamist anti-Indian campaign. Investigations into their revenue, campaign finance, lobbying vehicles, foreign state ties, etc.
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5/ Aafia's cause has been picked up closely by Ikhwani Islamist groups such as @CAIRNational and its branches in recent months, along with Jamaatis at @icna and its various subsidiaries. My guess is Pakistani regime or even ISI money is partly responsible for the renewed push.
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