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 Each month,
Islamist Watch (a project of the Middle East Forum) will provide
you with a newsletter featuring our top articles, blog posts and
media appearances.
This month, we exposed the links between the Council on
American-Islamic Relations and the San Diego school board, amid
the furor over 'Islamophobia lessons' in schools. We discovered
that a top official at Islamic Relief had circulated stories on
social media that praised the killing of Jews. And we revealed
that the Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) has received
funding from a Hamas-linked organization. (If you haven't seen
our campaign about the SVCF, click here; and sign our
petition here).
Our blog post on Tariq Ramadan's defense of the Virigina imam who
advocates for Female Genital Mutilation has been shared on social
media by the thousands. We also, for the first time, published in
a prominent Pakistani media outlet, Dunya News, on the exploitation
of interfaith dialogue by Islamist clerics.
For these stories and more, see below. And make sure to like us
on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
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Each month,
Islamist Watch (a project of the Middle East Forum) will provide
you with a newsletter featuring our top articles, blog posts and
media appearances.
This month, we exposed the links between the Council on
American-Islamic Relations and the San Diego school board, amid
the furor over 'Islamophobia lessons' in schools. We discovered
that a top official at Islamic Relief had circulated stories on
social media that praised the killing of Jews. And we revealed
that the Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) has received
funding from a Hamas-linked organization. (If you haven't seen
our campaign about the SVCF, click here; and sign our
petition here).
Our blog post on Tariq Ramadan's defense of the Virigina imam who
advocates for Female Genital Mutilation has been shared on social
media by the thousands. We also, for the first time, published in
a prominent Pakistani media outlet, Dunya News, on the
exploitation of interfaith dialogue by Islamist clerics.
For these stories and more, see below. And make sure to like us
on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
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How
CAIR Shaped San Diego's Public Schools
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In April
2017, the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) School Board
approved a plan to address anti-Muslim bullying in
schools. The driving force behind the plan, however, is the
San Diego chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations
(CAIR-SD), which has a history of ties to radical Islamists.
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Islamic Relief Official Praises
Killing of Jews
 Yousef Abdullah, the East Coast Operations
Manager for Islamic Relief - America's largest Islamic
charity - published a folk story about
"martyrs" who provide guns to "kill more than 20
jews" and "fire rockets at Tel Aviv." At the top
of Abdallah's post, the story is described as "very
beautiful." Other posts refer to Jews as
"stinking," and claim "the Jews put the
outside wall of Al Aqsa [the mosque in Jerusalem] on fire."
Read more...
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Are Islamists Exploiting
Interfaith Dialogue?
 Interfaith dialogue seems like such a noble cause. In
this age of religiously inspired terror, what could be
better than bringing preachers of different faiths together in
search of a common good? However, it seems that interfaith
dialogue is increasingly being exploited by extremists, who have
learned to praise other faiths in public, but curse them behind
closed doors.
Read more...
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Terror-Linked IIIT Funds Silicon Valley
Community Foundation
 Since January, the Middle East Forum has worked –
first in private and then in public – to persuade the Silicon
Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) to stop funding two such
extremist organizations, the Council on American-Islamic
Relations (CAIR) and Islamic Relief (IR), and instead
support reformist Muslim groups.
Read more...
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British Elections and the Future
of Counter-Terrorism
 Jewish disillusionment with the Labour Party is
accompanied by the collapse of support among Labour's traditional
voters. Much of this rejection has to do with fears over
security. Jeremy Corbyn has a long history of embracing terrorist
organizations, supporting Islamism, and attacking
counter-terrorism laws. A Corbyn-led government would likely
see the empowerment of hard-line Islamists, a warm relationship
with prominent Middle Eastern terrorist organizations, some
dismantlement of the PREVENT program, and the marginalization of
moderate Muslims.
Read more...
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Tariq Ramadan Defends Advocate of FGM
 On June 12, influential Islamist thinker Tariq
Ramadan released a 10-minute video on
Facebook expressing support for Imam Shaker Elsayed of
the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Virginia. Elsayed has
been roundly condemned since a video emerged, courtesy of
the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), in which he
recommends female genital mutilation to avoid
"hypersexuality."
Read more...
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Other IW writings and research this
month:
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