Islamist Influence

Mapping foreign Islamist funding, lobbying, and influence operations across Western institutions and politics.

Iran

Nov 1, 2026

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15 min read

The Other Election

Two days before the vote: what a Democratic House could and could not do about the Iran war, the fight against Islamist influence and the alliances in the region, and why the decisions that matter will be made in the eight weeks before it sits.

Gregg Roman

Iran

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Nov 1, 2026

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7 min read

What the Blockade Did

Treasury's report on its Iran campaign reached the President on Thursday and the press on Friday; it says the blockade and sanctions have crippled Iran's economy, and officials in Tehran describe the same shortages from their side. The same day the capital's Friday prayer leader asked for a new nuclear doctrine. Then Israel, Michigan, Beirut and the Security Council.

Gregg Roman

US Policy

Oct 29, 2026

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10 min read

In Their Own Words

The Forum's new site puts 928 statements from 36 Michigan institutions on the institutions' own video, beside the $47.4 million in public money 12 of them received and the officials who honored them. The Detroit center whose Friday prayer asked God to kill Netanyahu's soldiers "leaving none of them" received $45 million, most of it school-meal money paid through Lansing.

Gregg Roman

Iran

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Oct 21, 2026

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6 min read

The Mosque on Tireman Avenue

The Forum publishes three years of prayers for killing from the Islamic Center of Detroit, and federal spending records list the mosque as the recipient of about $45 million since 2017, $31 million of it in a single Agriculture Department entry.

Gregg Roman

Islamist Influence

Oct 18, 2026

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18 min read

The Suburbs Burned First

France’s worst unrest in years began at a high school in Créteil that was missing a mathematics teacher. What the state left in the suburbs, who moved in, which party stood at the school gates this fall, and what the Islamists did.

Gregg Roman

Islamist Influence

How San Diego Let CAIR Define “Islamophobia”

Oct 4, 2026

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17 min read

How San Diego Let CAIR Define “Islamophobia”

San Diego’s new definition of “Islamophobia” was drafted in the local office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a group named in a Hamas-financing case and designated a terrorist organization by two American governors. Nearly 2,000 pages of city records show how it happened.

Gregg Roman

Iran

Jul 31, 2026

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10 min read

Gaza Disarmament? Read The Small Print

Trump announces the complete disarmament of Hamas, Hamas attaches a Palestinian state to its heavy weapons, Riyadh launches a 14-nation fleet without the UAE, and the oil majors post the war's invoice.

Gregg Roman

Iran

Jul 22, 2026

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14 min read

Hidden Handouts, $10 Deeds, and Iran’s Red Line

MEF's new audit finds $79,045,396 in HHS money for the Islamist network, and CAIR's headquarters moves for a recited $10. Two investigations, one method: read the documents nobody else will.

Gregg Roman

Iran

Jul 20, 2026

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13 min read

The Realignment

Seventeen American names, nine nights of strikes, a Houthi blockade of Saudi Arabia, and a region done renting deterrence. The era of Western frameworks is ending; here are the receipts.

Gregg Roman

Islamist Influence