Leaders of American Islamist groups celebrated Eid al-Fitr, the end of Ramadan, this week by heaping praise on Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey who aims to be a leader of the Sunni world. “[P]rofound human rights violations against hundreds of thousands of people” in Turkey were identified in 2018 by…
U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., helped American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) raise more than $20,000 Saturday by speaking to the group’s “online gala.”Last week, I reported that Dingell and fellow Democrat Barbara Lee of California were slated to speak, despite AMP’s extensive record of hateful rhetoric and connections to a defunct…
Professional politicians say a lot of things that just aren’t true, so perhaps it’s not fair to hold others to a higher standard than the people we put in power. But when it comes to anti-Israel activists, it seems that anything goes, including claims that cross the line into outright…
https://www.investigativeproject.org/audio-video/1016.mp4 Despite a long record of anti-Semitic speech and radical connections, Linda Sarsour manages to enjoy a reputation as a “civil rights activist” and “community organizer.” Simon & Schuster thought well enough of her to publish her memoir this week. In this video, the Investigative Project on Terrorism examines…
The federal government knows a lot of troubling things about two prominent American Islamist organizations. Curiously, the same federal government continues to seek out partnerships with those same radical organizations and even awards them taxpayer-funded grant money. Last summer, the Commerce Department severed a partnership with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)…
Their countries wanted them dead because of their ideas. You’ve probably heard of one – Jamal Khashoggi. His 2018 murder inside a Saudi Arabian consulate in Turkey sparked international outrage and front page headlines. Khashoggi was a Washington Post columnist, and his brutal killing at the hands of Saudi government agents naturally sparked anger and a vociferous defense…
It is an ultra-conservative Sunni movement that seeks a global Islamic state. It has been banned in 13 countries, including Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Germany and Turkey. But representatives of the group Hizb ut-Tahrir (HuT) were welcomed recently by two of America’s largest Islamist groups at their annual joint convention. The group was…
Its leaders won’t condemn terrorist groups like Hamas or Hizballah, but the founder and executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) says his organization deals with “Zionism on [a] daily basis.” Nihad Awad, who co-founded CAIR in 1994 and is the only person to run it, cast Zionism as inherently…
https://www.investigativeproject.org/audio-video/1000.m4v As the Palestinian Islamic Jihad fired hundreds of rockets at Israeli civilian communities last week, a coalition of supposed peace groups organized a Times Square rally to make their position clear. They stand with the terrorists. As the Investigative Project on Terrorism’s exclusive video shows, hundreds attended the “Emergency Action…
Nihad Awad has a vision for America’s future. Awad, a co-founder and executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) calls it “the formula.” “A strong CAIR equals a strong community,” he said Saturday during CAIR’s national fundraising banquet. “A strong community will produce a strong, and confident and successful Muslim…
Because Saudi Arabia got caught lying about the brutal murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi last year, defense attorneys say a Virginia man convicted in 2005 of supporting al-Qaida terrorism should go free. Ahmed Abu Ali‘s 2005 conviction on nine terrorism-related charges – including a plot to assassinate then-President George W. Bush – hinged on…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used his United Nations General Assembly speech last week to blast Israel as the cause of “injustice” in the Middle East and vow that his country “will continue to stand by the oppressed people of Palestine as she has always done.” But a new report…