On Nov. 24, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) directing the State and Treasury Departments to begin the process of deciding whether to designate some select branches of the Muslim Brotherhood as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs). Notably, this initial executive order specifically named…
The Muslim Brotherhood’s long game isn’t bombs but burrowing—an influence network shaping campuses, media, and government while Washington looks past the foreign regimes bankrolling it. Twelve years ago, in 2013, the Gatestone Institute published an in-depth account of the Muslim Brotherhood’s infiltration operations vs. the U.S. government (written by this author). The vicious…
Iran’s Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi declared a fatwa against President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on June 29. A fatwa is a religious decree on a matter of Islamic law that is issued by a senior Islamic jurist. Shirazi holds the rank of a Marja’a-e Taqlid, the highest…
See Part 1 HERE. Next, let us turn to look at where this concept of hijra comes from. Following is an overview of the doctrinal and historical bases for the campaign called hijra (الهجرة in Arabic). The word means “migration,” and is based on the original journey in 622 CE of…
Even as the Trump administration is moving with promised speed to secure America’s borders, within those borders, the Islamic mission of hijra is making inroads, notably in Texas. In the city of East Plano is the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC), whose “activities are in accordance with the teachings of the…
Trump’s DOJ vows to fight antisemitism and Hamas support—but will it confront the foreign powers, like Turkey and Qatar, funding U.S. campus extremism? The Trump administration has taken a series of decisive, direct steps and executive actions that make clear its intention to end the chaos of antisemitism on American…
Speaking before a U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on March 25, 2025, U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard stated in her opening remarks that “The IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in…
Time is running short on efforts to stop the Iranian regime’s nuclear weapons development before its warheads and missiles are fitted together and ready to deploy and deliver to targets both near and far. At a January 31 press briefing, Deputy Director of the National Council of Resistance of Iran…
In an important press update briefing of Dec. 19, 2024, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) regime opposition group reported on accelerated work by Iran to develop Exploding Bridgewire (EBW) nuclear detonators. According to the Nov. 8, 2011 Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on…
Warnings about “the threat from foreign terrorists” from senior U.S. national security officials such as FBI Director Christopher Wray have been sounded repeatedly in recent months. U.S. Central Command commander Gen. Erik Kurilla likewise has been emphasizing the capabilities of Islamic jihad terror groups including al-Qaida (AQ), the Islamic State…
Dr. Harold Rhode, a Mideast scholar and former adviser in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Pentagon, recently penned, “Misunderstanding Iran,” an insightful essay at the Jewish Policy Council that offered a sobering analysis of why we in the U.S. and the West more generally so often,…
Two recent interviews — one with former Navy SEAL and Blackwater founder Erik Prince and one with Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., — pointed to the gathering threat of terror violence inside the country this year. Aside from these two and a few more, though, there seems to be scant attention being paid…