The White House this week issued a statement explaining why it does not view the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group. It was in response to an online petitionwhich attracted more than 213,000 signatures in support of designating the Egyptian-based group. The statement
Recent arrests in Jordan and Israel show that Hamas and the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood are trying to smuggle weapons into Gaza and the West Bank. After Egypt’s army destroyed tunnels joining Gaza and Sinai that had been lucrative smuggling paths,
For American teens these days, the biggest heroes are no longer baseball players or even Lady Gaga: they are mostly You Tube stars, like the comedy team Smosh, followed by Katy Perry and – surprisingly – 92-year-old actress Betty White. But
A new report by Canada’s Point de Bascule takes the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to task for participating in a panel discussion Wednesday sponsored by the Muslim Students Association (MSA) at the University of Windsor. RCMP Superintendent Doug Best, who heads the Canadian law-enforcement agency’s national
Officials at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) have expressed astonishment and confusion over a decision by the United Arab Emirates to include the American-Islamist organization on a list of terrorist groups. “Well this is shocking to us in the first place,”
Iran’s Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei charged that the enemies of Islam created the Islamic State to spread “Islamophobia” during a speech Monday at Tehran’s Imam Ali Military Academy. The West sets up armed extremist groups such as the Islamic State and trains them to
The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) cabinet approved a comprehensive list of 83 designated terrorist organizations Saturday, the WAM Emirates News Agency reports. The list includes various al-Qaeda affiliates and the Islamic State. But the UAE also considers the Muslim Brotherhood and
The Muslim Brotherhood’s leading global voice, Sheik Yusuf Qaradawi, called on MuslimsThursday to fight “the greatest battle of liberation” against Israel and the Jews. In an Arabic message posted on his website and translated by the Investigative Project on Terrorism, Qaradawi called on Muslims
The famed laissez faire liberalism of the Dutch is only matched by their flinty commonsense. Two years after the brutal 2004 murder of filmmaker Theo Van Gogh at the hand of Islamist jihadists in Amsterdam, the Dutch government quietly introduced a form
Brookings’ partnership with the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC), in conjunction with its Qatari-backedProject on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World, sends a mixed message for a think tank that claims to want “a more open, safe, prosperous and cooperative international system.”
The speaker rosters at the Brookings Institution’s annual Doha conferences read like a veritable Who’s Who of international leaders. Featured guests include influential American policymakers such as National Security Adviser Susan Rice, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former Undersecretary
The Brookings Institution bills itself as “the most influential, most quoted and most trusted think tank in the world,” but should it be? Brookings’ long-term relationship with the Qatari government – a notorious supporter of terror in the Middle East – casts
Just after last week’s terrorist attacks in Ottawa, the city’s police chief Charles Bordeleau reached out to various Muslim leaders and organizations with questionable ties to radical organizations including the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, according to a report produced by the Canadian website Point De
Starting Nov. 4, federal prosecutors in Detroit present their case against a Palestinian woman who slipped through the cracks. Rasmieh Odeh, 67, has been in the United States since at least 1995. To her advocates, she’s a peaceful community activist
Lured by local mosques and the Internet, by visions of warriors and victory dancing in their heads, thousands of European Muslims have left the safety of their homes in England, France, Germany, the Netherlands and elsewhere to join the Syrian
This article originally appeared at the Investigative Project on Terrorism. Note: This analysis has been excerpted, with the approval of the author, from a much longer scholarly article that will be published in an academic journal. “Which will come first,
A Somali-American will serve 30 years in prison for plotting to detonate a massive car bomb at a crowded 2010 Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Oregon. Mohamed Mohamud, 23, was arrested in November 2010 after repeatedly trying to detonate the bomb,
A Turkish man who was part of a flotilla that violently tried to break Israel’s blockade on Gaza in 2010 has been killed in bombing raids targeting ISIS terrorists in Syria, media reports say. Yakup Bülent Alniak was in Syria researching a
AT had a chance to catch up with Steven Emerson, head of The Investigative Project on Terrorism, and hear his assessment of the ISIS threat here on American soil. Emerson runs the country’s top data center on Islamic terror groups in
Thousands of Palestinians mourned the deaths Tuesday of two Palestinian men suspected of kidnapping and killing three Israeli students in June, the Jerusalem Post reports. A massive funeral procession honoring Marwan Kawasme and Amar Abuysha moved through the streets of Hebron, featuring mourners
A New York federal jury on Monday found Arab Bank liable for enabling terrorist attacks by Hamas by routing money to the players involved. It’s a landmark decision – in the first trial of its kind against a financial institution under the
Hizballah plans to dispatch scores of terrorists into Israel while striking civilian communities with missiles in a future war that could last months, a senior Israeli source told reporters. The terrorist organization’s confidence grew, based on experience gained from its military
A Colorado teen pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS), also known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The conspiracy started earlier this year when 19-year-old Shannon Conley
Georgetown University Professor John Esposito is one of six Middle East Studies directors at American universities to embrace an academic boycott of Israel, according to a Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Watch report. The six directors signed a public letter vowing “not to collaborate on
To hear some Palestinian advocates, if Israel simply lifted its blockade on Gaza – aimed at curbing weapons smuggling into the Hamas-controlled territory – then peace could be enjoyed by all. One of the main Hamas spokesman made it clear
From The Investigative Project on Terrorism: Hamas killed at least 18 Palestinians, including two women, Friday that it suspected of collaborating with Israel, the Jerusalem Post reports. That number is expected to grow. Eleven suspected collaborators were murdered at a
Vladimir Putin’s Russian forces remain poised for a possible takeover of neighboring Ukraine. Nuclear-armed North Korea is ruled by an unstable, nihilistic dictator who constantly makes new threats against American allies and the United States itself (along with some of its filmmakers). The Islamic State
It took her more than nine years of working in the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security, but Yasmina Haifi finally uncovered the secret truth about the Islamic State: It isn’t Islamic at all. Actually, it’s a Jewish plot. Yes,
Israel conducted a targeted killing of two senior, and one lower level, Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip Wednesday night, the Jerusalem Post reports. Coordinating with the Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic intelligence agency, the Israeli Air Force struck a building in Rafah,
A senior Hamas official acknowledged that the terrorist organization was behind the June kidnapping and murder of three Israeli students, the Jerusalem Post reports. Salah al-Aruri, a senior Hamas official, praised the “heroic action of the Kassam Brigades who kidnapped three settlers
The summer war that has raged between Hamas in Gaza and Israel has left the Islamist terrorist organization battered and bruised. Its offensive tunnel capabilities lie in ruins, while its rocket arsenal near depletion. The war began when Hamas launched
Excerpt from Jerusalem Online: The President’s True Colors Finally Revealed: Op-Ed by Steven Emerson When I first glanced at the headline on today’s Jerusalem Online and reports in the Jerusalem Post and other Israeli newspapers, I thought they must have
This post originally appeared at the Investigative Project on Terrorism. Like many girls her age, 15-year-old Moezdalifa El Adoui left her family’s home on a summer afternoon without stopping to say goodbye. But unlike other teens, she wasn’t going shopping
During the 1990s, the Muslim Brotherhood created a support network in the United States to help Hamas politically and financially. It was called the Palestine Committee. According to documents seized by the FBI by some of the committee’s members, that
“I believe that everyone has his own fight in life,” Esther Voet has said. “This is my fight.” She describes running CIDI as her “calling.” From the start of the latest conflict in Israel-Gaza (known as “Operation Protective Edge”), the Netherlands’
A Hamas attack on Israeli troops left two soldiers dead and a third feared kidnappedjust hours into a planned 72-hour ceasefire in Gaza. Israeli cabinet officials are meeting to discuss a response, but already Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that Hamas will pay
A good contrast between pragmatism and raw religious hatred came in recent statements from prominent Sunni voices. Egyptian cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a prominent Muslim Brotherhood spiritual guide and popular Al-Jazeera program host, appeared on the network earlier this month to defend Hamas as
Israel’s Operation Protective Edge uncovered a comprehensive Hamas training manual that features step-by-step instructions on building homemade bombs. The terrorist manual includes detailed techniques concerning the concealing and detonation of various types explosives. For example, the manual explains how to produce a
More than 20,000 Israeli troops entered Gaza late Thursday hoping to clear out Hamas tunnels that can be used by terrorists to infiltrate Israel or which warehouse rockets for Hamas and other terrorists groups. According to Israeli military sources, the
While Israel’s response to incessant rocket fire from Gaza drew the requisite condemnations from the Arab world and some in the international community, Arab media is increasingly open in criticizing Hamas for instigating the violence. Media in Saudi Arabia, Syria,