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Sam Westrop
Director, Islamist Watch
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Profile
Sam Westrop has directed Islamist Watch since March 2017 and is a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. He earlier ran Stand for Peace, a London-based counter-extremism organization.
Summarized from the MEF bio of Sam Westrop, read October 4, 2026.
Writes on: Islamism in the West; foreign influence and funding; terrorism and counterterrorism; Muslim Brotherhood; the United States; the United Kingdom; India and Pakistan.
Topics are this site's tags, assigned from the subjects of Sam Westrop's bylined MEF pieces, the MEF bio and the topics MEF lists on its Speakers Bureau page.
MEF Work (305)
Bylined pieces published by the Middle East Forum, newest first, 2016 to 2026. Titles are quoted as MEF published them and link to the original on meforum.org.
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2026 (13)
- What’s Next for America’s Counter-Islamism Policy?
- Revealed: CAIR's $7.7 Million of Foreign Financing
- Texas Islamist Charter School Funded With $75 Million of State Monies
- How Texas Became the Hub of a Terror-Linked Kashmiri Outfit's Activities
- What’s Next for Wealthy Texas Islamism?
- Uncovering the Iranian Regime Influence Operation to Radicalize Texas Students
- Iran’s Texas-Pakistani Network
- TexAM’s Radical Leaders Betray the Institution’s Underpinning Agenda
- Church of Latter-day Saints Partnered with Hamas Ministry and Financed Hamas Contractor
- Hamas Officials' Family and Affiliates Established and Staffed Top Dallas Private School
- A Guide to Islamism in Texas
- The Islamist Schools Industry in Texas
- Mormon Charities Among Top Contributors to Terror-Aligned Islamist Charities
2025 (17)
- The U.S. Government Embraces an Islamist Bangladesh
- Texas Faces a Far Broader Islamist Threat Than Just the Muslim Brotherhood
- U.S. Government Provides Millions to Malaysia’s Muslim Brotherhood
- Has the Federal Government Dismantled Hamas’s U.S. Networks? No
- Homegrown Islamism: The Inconsequence of the Muslim Brotherhood
- Terror-Aligned Charity 'Human Appeal' Should Be Prosecuted, Not Publicly Funded
- Beachhead: Georgetown U. with Anna Stanley
- Texas State Government Gives $13 Million to Islamist Mosques and Community Groups
- Plano, Texas, Hands $1.2 Million to Radical Terror-Aligned Charities, Including Controversial EPIC City
- Did New Gaza Aid Effort Utilize U.S. Hamas-Aligned Islamist Charities?
- Terror Subsidizers to Receive Billions of Surviving USAID Dollars
- Terror Finance at the State Department and USAID
- Trump’s Foreign Aid Suspension: A Good First Step to Disrupt USAID’s Terror Finance
- Michigan Islamists Applaud Trump’s Pressure on Israel, Meet With FBI Director Nominee
- Why Does Israel (Still) Facilitate Hamas’s Funding?
- Antisemitic, Pro-Hezbollah Imam Invited to Deliver Prayer at Trump Inauguration
- Houston's Harris County Embraces Official of Islamist Network Connected to New Orleans Terrorist
2024 (16)
- South Africa's Terror-Tied Ambassador Returns to Washington
- Reasserting American Power in the Middle East: A Blueprint for the Trump Administration with Gregg Roman, Michael Rubin, Jonathan Spyer, Jim Hanson, Winfield Myers, Benjamin Baird, Eric Navarro, Dexter Van Zile, Alex Selsky
- Hamas-Aligned Charities Have Little to Fear from Government
- Department of Justice Compels Indiana County's $300k Payout to Tablighi Jamaat Seminary
- National Security Council Embraces Official of Hamas-Contracted Charity
- Iranian Regime Involvement with Texas Student Anti-Israel Protests
- Exploring Minnesota Mosque Dar Al-Farooq's Connections to Pandemic Relief Fraud Case
- Top Federal Government Partner ANERA Is a Hive of Jew-Hate and Hamas-Support
- Rep. Torres Secures $1 Million for Oct. 7 Supporters
- USAID Hands Almost $1 Million to Hamas Charity in Gaza Linked to Son of Terror Leader Ismail Haniyeh
- Islamic Relief Partnered with Senior Hamas Officials, including Son of Terror Leader Ismail Haniyeh
- Biden Gave $5 Million to Terror-Tied Islamists in 2023 (Still Much Less than Trump)
- 'Uncommitted Vote' Campaign was Designed to Unify Fractious Islamists
- Western Islamists Work to Build the Taliban's Afghanistan into a Global Caliphate
- Canadian Muslims Divided Over Israel “Normalizers”
- Terror TV Station Established in Canada, Supported by U.S. and European Radicals
2023 (26)
- Yet Another Radical Bangladeshi Preacher Embarks on a U.K. Tour
- The U.S. Charitable Network That Subsidizes Hamas, and the Donors Behind It
- Who Funds CAIR?
- Western Backed Terror Charities Defend Killings
- Western Islamists Who Have Embraced Hamas Leaders
- Pro-Hamas Islamists Celebrate, and Gather in London, in the Wake of Israel Slaughter
- Why Has the Islamic Relief Franchise Lost the Support of Western Governments?
- In New York City, Mayor Eric Adams Amplifies the Islamists
- Why did the Turkish President Address Pakistani Doctors Meeting in Dallas?
- Businesses and Bonyads: How Pistachios Finance Pro-Iran Radicalism in the United States with Kara Hashemi
- New Documents Indicate Qatari Conspiracy to Hide Materials from U.S. Courts
- Iran's Pistachio Proxies with Kara Hashemi
- Maryland Legislators Boast of Securing Taxpayer Funding for Hostile Turkish Regime Institution
- What's Next for American Islamism (And Its Opponents)?
- Terror-tied American Islamist Charities Operate with Impunity in India
- The Challenges of Countering Islamism in the West
- Federal Government Handed Almost $2 Million to Domestic Islamist Organizations in 2022
- American Islamism's Malaysian Prime Minister
- Turkish Islamists Aim to Capitalize on Earthquake Devastation
- Muted Islamist Reactions to Death of Kamal El-Helbawy
- The Troubling Islamist Connections of Scotland's Next Leader."
- UK Organizations Fundraise for Gazan Hamas Charity Run by Killers
- UK Government Report Ties Islamism to Violence; Echoes MEF Recommendations
- USAID Boasts of Funding Antisemitic Charity in Gaza Linked to Designated Terrorist Organization
- Irreligious Islamism: Andrew Tate’s Arrest Highlights a Growing Radical Divide
- Irreligious Islamism: Andrew Tate's Arrest Highlights a Growing Radical Divide
2022 (48)
- Ban Afghan Women from Universities? Western Islamists Divided
- Hate-Filled Islamist Clerics Gather in Toronto, Bridging Theological Divides
- London's Mayor Celebrates Notorious Islamist Group
- Western Islamists Surprisingly Ignore a Muslim Brotherhood Leader's Death
- Pakistani-American Islamists Offer Republicans Support; Pompeo Praises ISI
- A Conservative-Islamist Alliance; Part 4: The Right Inches Closer to Islamism
- A Conservative-Islamist Alliance; Part 3: Islamists Throw Off Their Progressivist Shackles
- A Conservative-Islamist Alliance; Part 2: The Changing Politics of American Islam
- A Conservative-Islamist Alliance; Part 1: Trouble in Dearborn
- A Conservative-Islamist Alliance
- Will San Diego County Fund CAIR's Hate-Filled Fundraising Banquet?
- Islamists Playing Central Role in Michigan's 'LGBTQ' Textbook Controversy
- The Rise of the Islamic Economy, Part III: Radicalizing the Islamic Economy
- The Rise of the Islamic Economy, Part II: Defining the Islamic Economy
- The Rise of the Islamic Economy, Part I: For-Profit Islam
- The Rise of the Islamic Economy
- In Leicester, Islamists Fan the Flames
- The Decline of ISNA: When Islamists Clash
- Congressional Candidates Withdraw from Event at Jihadist Mosque
- Congressional Candidates Boycott Debate at Terror-Tied Mosque
- America’s Most Popular Imam Embraces Leading Jihadist Preacher
- America's Most Popular Imam Embraces Leading Jihadist Preacher
- America's Favorite 'Moderate' Imam Embraces Radicals
- Western Islamists Denounce Killing of Zawahiri
- New Illinois College to Train Hardline Imams
- Chicago Deobandi Madrassa Accredited as College
- CAIR's Latest Muslim Voter Survey Reaffirms Islamist Group's Own Deficiencies
- CAIR Polls Itself, Revealing Its Failure to Unite Muslims
- Terror Supporters and Child Abuse Enthusiasts to Benefit from Expanded Federal Program
- Congress Must End Funding of Islamist Groups
- Why “The Lady of Heaven” Movie Has Rattled the UK: The Producer Explains
- Massachusetts Politicians Enable Boston's Islamists
- Interview: Radical preacher Daniel Haqiqatjou on “Islam vs. Liberalism”
- Kashmiri Jihadist’s Guilty Plea Puts His Western Backers in Spotlight
- Once Again, London Has an Islamist-Run Borough
- Federal Government Hands $5 Million to Radical Islamic Charities in 2021
- London Mayor's Photo-Op with Terror Apologist
- Western Islamists Lament Imran Khan’s Departure
- Western Islamists Angry at Turkish Outreach to Israel
- Yvonne Ridley Returns to Her Captors
- Qatar Subsidizes Radicalization Threat in U.S. Prisons
- The Confluence of Islamism and the Far-Right
- Islamists and Neo-Nazis Flirting
- Are Western Islamists Open to Supporting Russia?
- The Economics of American Islam
- Concern in the Capitol Grows Over Terror Ties of Pakistan’s Nominated Ambassador to the U.S.
- Uncovered Qatari Regime Data Reveals Funding of Hardline Islamists Across the West with Martha Lee
- Kashmiri Islamism Advocate Lord Ahmed Convicted of Sexual Offences Against Children
2021 (19)
- The Eid Charity Files
- 'Interfaith Advocate' Cleric Shamsi Ali Praises Taliban
- A Terror Supporter Goes to Washington
- (Mis)Understanding American Islam
- Omar Suleiman Demands the Release of Islamist Terror Operatives
- Eulogizing a Jihadist
- The Khalistani Movement
- Exploiting Progressivist Handwringing, Islamists Advocate for their Own
- American Islamists Advocate for Lady Al-Qaeda
- Western Islamists Welcome Taliban Takeover
- At Pakistan's Urging, American Islamists Rally Against India
- The Mysterious Finances of One of America's Wealthiest Islamic Organizations with J.M. Phelps
- Halal Extremism with J.M. Phelps
- The Rise of the Crypto-Islamists
- Pakistan's Terror-Connected Islamist Network in Houston Revealed with Martha Lee
- Islamic Relief Faces Ongoing Crisis, Despite British Whitewash
- Beware the Islamist Underbelly
- Senate Finance Committee: World Vision was "Borderline Negligent"
- Trump's Curious Pro-Islamist Legacy
2020 (33)
- Violence-Supporting Islamists Given Federal COVID Grants
- Under the Cover of Benevolence, Islamic Relief Subsidizes Terror with Clifford Smith
- NBC Hires Islamist-Linked Journalist with a History of Hate
- Beware Pakistan's Radical Barelvis
- Trump Administration Hands Out Counter-Extremism Grants to Islamists
- A Guide to Lawful Islamism in the United States
- How Not to Fight Terrorism: The Delusions of the "Countering Violent Extremism" Industry
- How Not to Fight Terrorism
- Time to Shut Down "Muslim Aid"
- India Must Shut Down Western Radical Charities
- Rethinking Counter-Extremism
- More Trouble for Islamic Relief
- Terror-Tied Islamic Relief Files Legal Challenge Against Israeli Government
- Daniel Haqiqatjou: "The liberal mind has a problem with this idea of owning a person."
- Countering South Asian Islamism
- Terrorists, Racists and Academics Unite to Say: Free Tariq Ramadan
- Why Are American Taxpayers Funding Lobbyists for Jihad?
- Taxpayer-Subsidized Terror Lobbyists
- Flexible Salafis: The Growing Political Power of 'Woke,' Modernist Islamism
- Flexible Salafis
- Taxpayer-Funded Charity Islamic Relief Embraces Violent Anti-Semitism (Again)
- We Ignore Tablighi Jamaat at Our Peril with Abhinav Pandya
- For terror charities, COVID-19 crisis offers legitimacy
- Jamaat-e-Islami: A Threat at Home and Abroad? with Clifford Smith
- Jamaat-e-Islami in the Spotlight
- Where Europe Went Wrong
- Uncovering Terror Funding in Foreign Aid: The Islamic Relief Agency Scandal
- Prominent Islamist Clerics Deem Coronavirus "Divine Punishment"
- Pro-Terror, Anti-Jewish Activist Demands "Balance"
- Fatuous Fanatics
- Umbrella Group for American Government Funded Islamist Charities: U.K, U.S. are our "Enemies."
- DHS Approves $100k Grant of Taxpayers' Money to CAIR
- American Islamism Flourishes under Trump
2019 (53)
- Trump Administration Continues to Enable and Fund Troubled Islamic Organization with Clifford Smith
- Leading from Behind on Islamic Relief
- India's Nemesis in America
- India's Islamist Nemesis in America with Clifford Smith
- American Islamism Flourishes Under Trump
- Disinformation Campaign Targets Ilhan Omar and Qatar?
- When Foreign and Domestic Radicals Collide, Congress Takes Notice
- Jamaat-e-Islami: A Threat at Home and Abroad?
- Philadelphia Commission Looks the Other Way on Islamist Anti-Semitism
- In the West, Shia and Sunni Islamists Often Make Common Cause
- Diaspora Islamism
- Defining 'True Islam'
- ICNA Official Found Guilty of Lying to Federal Agents over Alleged Terror Finance Scheme
- ICNA Official Convicted in Connection with Terror Finance Scheme
- Tell the City of Champaign to Fire its Antisemitic Commissioner
- Tell the City of Champaign to Fire its Anti-Semitic Commissioner
- British Jewish Newspaper Buckles to Hamas
- City of Champaign Appoints Anti-Jewish Extremist to Anti-Discrimination Commission
- New Evidence: UN Connected to World Vision Terror Finance Scandal with Clifford Smith
- New Evidence: U.N. Connected to World Vision Terror Finance Scandal
- Prominent California Islamists Praise Imam's Call to Exterminate Jews
- Islamist Identity Troubles
- Has the Muslim Public Affairs Council Truly Moderated?
- Qatar's American Conservative Lapdogs with Martha Lee
- Qatar Buys Conservative Column Inches with Martha Lee
- How CAIR Makes Political Allies: A Cautionary Tale
- From Mocking Muslims to Entreating Islamists
- Prominent Imam: Pro-Palestinian Obsession has Led to "Immoral" Partnerships
- Prominent Imam Decries 'Palestine' Obsession of U.S. Muslim Leaders
- Supporters of Ethnic Cleansing Accuse LA Mayor of Supporting Ethnic Cleansing
- India Should Beware of American Islamism
- India Should Beware American Islamism
- Arizona Court Bestows Free Labor on Terror-Tied Charity
- Civil Suit Alleges Anti-Semitism and Religious Discrimination at CAIR-California
- New Research Uncovers $41 Million of U.S.-Taxpayer-Subsidized Islamism
- $41 Million of Taxpayer-Subsidized Islamism
- CAIR to Comment - April 2019
- Orange County Students Sing a Dictator's Song
- CAIR Official: "i wish hitler was alive to f*** up the jewish ppl"
- German Government: Islamic Relief has "Significant Ties" to Muslim Brotherhood
- CAIR Official: "i wish hitler was alive to f*** up the jewish ppl"
- Italian Lawmakers Oppose Islamic Relief's Extremist Clerics
- Minnesota Lawmakers Nominate Anti-Semites to Fight Anti-Semitism
- Creeping Theo-Progressivism
- It's Time to Tackle South Asian Islamism
- A South Asian Threat in America
- Catalogue of ICNA's Links to Jamaat-e-Islami
- Islamic Relief Strikes Back (But Misses)
- Islamic Relief and Qatar Implicated in Tunisian Terror Finance Investigation with Martha Lee
- Ilhan Omar to Speak Alongside Charity Official who Praised Killing of Jews
- Islamic Relief and Qatar Implicated in Tunisian Terror Finance Investigation with Martha Lee
- Behind Every Women's March Stands a Careful Islamist
- Islamism Flourishes in Darkness
2018 (32)
- Islamic Relief's Islamist Volunteers
- New York Times Expurgates Tale of Islamist Anti-Semitism
- Islamist Detained, New York Times Baffled
- World Vision, Come Clean - A Rebuttal with Clifford Smith
- USAID Names Sudanese Terror Charity as its 'Partner'
- Lost in Sudan with Clifford Smith
- Lost in Sudan
- Islamist Money Buys CAIR Some Powerful Friends
- Anti-Semites Exploit Anti-Semitism Letter
- It's Time to Prosecute Terror Finance Again
- Bangladeshi Islamists Go to Washington with Abha Shankar
- Charity and Security Network: Useful Idiots or Advocates for Hate?
- CSN: Useful Idiots or Advocates for Hate?
- CAIR Bigots Exploit Fears of Bigotry
- Author of Muslim Bigotry Report Is a Noted Bigot and Antisemite
- Islamist-linked Keith Ellison Accused of Domestic Abuse
- Terror Charities Top Corporate Donation Charts
- Terror Charities Reap the Benefits of Corporate Donations
- Exclusive: Obama Administration Knowingly Funded a Designated Al-Qaeda Affiliate
- Exclusive: Obama Administration Knowingly Funded Designated Al-Qaeda Affiliate
- Cleric Protesting Child Separation Justifies Honor Killings
- Islamic Relief Should Be Shut Down
- Islamic Relief Is a Cog in a Dangerous Machine
- Islamic Relief: Charity, Extremism & Terror
- Moderate Islam Falters in the Face of Silicon Valley Censorship
- Moderate Islam Falters in the Face of Silicon
- Deobandi Cleric: Beat Your Wife, But Lightly
- Humanitarian Heroine Hates Jews, Loves Hamas
- Islamists Declare: Politics is Our Weapon
- Interfaith Commercial Designed by Hate Group
- Pakistani Islamism Flourishes in America
- American Islamist Charity Openly Partners with Designated Terrorists
2017 (47)
- Islamic Center of New England Gives Platform (Again) to Islamist Imam
- Islamic Center of New England Gives Platform (Again) to Deobandi Imam
- Leading American Islamist Endorses Violent Anti-Ahmadi Group
- CAIR, Georgetown Professor Denounce 'Heretical,' 'Lowlife' Muslims
- Deobandis Meet in Virginia to Incite Violence Against Persecuted Islamic Minority
- The Boston Islamic Seminary Is Training the Next Generation of Extremists
- The Islamic Society of Boston: From One Scandal to Another
- The Boston Islamic Seminary Is Training the Next Generation of Extremists
- Now Revealed: Millions of Foundation Dollars Flowing to Islamist Groups
- Sex Scandal Sparks Islamist Infighting in America
- CAIR Exploits a Tragedy
- When Islamists Fall Out
- Another Anti-Jewish Hire at the Islamic Society of Boston
- U.S. Charity Openly Funds Violent Pakistani Shi'ite Movement
- Terror-Linked Charity Islamic Relief Escapes Ban on Receiving Your Tax Dollars
- How Hurricane Irma Saved Islamic Relief's Funding, for the Moment
- American Islamists Turn to Ankara with Samantha Rose Mandeles
- Credulous Journalists Help Islamists Thrive
- Act Now to Block Federal Funds to Islamic Relief Worldwide
- Putting an End to Government Funding of Islamism
- Islamic Relief Chairman Seems to Hate Jews and Love Jihad
- More Calls on Silicon Valley Community Foundation to Stop Funding Hate
- More Calls on Silicon Valley Community Foundation to Stop Funding Hate
- Silicon Valley Censorship
- Karim Abuzaid and the letter they didn't want you to see
- The Impact of Jihadi Attacks on the British Elections
- Excuses Fail an Islamist "Charity"
- Senior Islamic Relief Official Praises Killing of Jews
- What do the British Elections Mean for Counter-Extremism Efforts?
- Are Interfaith Dialogues Being Exploited To Promote Islamist Bigotry In The West?
- Helping Hand for Relief and Development Hosts Anti-Jewish and Pro-Terror Preachers (Again)
- Keith Ellison Withdraws AGAIN from Gathering of Extreme Islamists
- American Islam's Most Extreme Conference
- The Daily Show's Trevor Noah Should Pull Out of Toronto Islamist event
- Calling for The Daily Show's Trevor Noah to Pull out of Toronto Event Supporting Islamist Intolerance
- An Onslaught Of Islamist Violence Is Europe's New Normal
- Worst of the ICNA-MAS Conference 2017
- With Friends Like These...
- Once Again, CAIR Shows That Islamism and Civil Rights Don't Mix with Gregg Roman
- ICNA Relief Banquet Features Anti-Semitic, Homophobic Preachers
- Tariq Ramadan and the Next Generation of American Muslims
- Silicon Valley Subsidizes Hate
- Keith Ellison Risks Legitimizing Islamic Extremists
- Keith Ellison Risks Legitimizing Extremists
- Countering Islamist Extremism the Right Way
- Brandeis Hires Suheil Laher, Anti-Semitic Islamist with Al-Qaeda Links
- How American Charities Fund Terrorism
2016 (1)
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