Posted on 07/11/2026 9:23:54 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
We are two Muslim women who have each had a death warrant, a fatwa, placed on our heads—not for committing a crime, but for opposing the extremists who claim to speak for our faith.
One of us, Anila, came to America from Pakistan and built a life here as a public school teacher.
After September 11, Anila founded an organization to empower Muslim women and confront extremism. The other, Dalia, fled Egypt after Hamas’ attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023.
Dalia was targeted for opposing the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, and has spent the years since tracing the money that radical movements use to buy influence in the West.
Though we have come to America from different countries, and to this work from different directions, we reached the same conclusion: The ideological transformation of American college campuses is not organic. It is funded, and the funding is too easily hidden.
We say this from personal experience. We have sat with Muslim students who felt they couldn’t speak honestly without losing their friends. We have watched Jewish students pull back from campus life because they no longer felt safe. We have seen faculty we respect go quiet on subjects they once engaged with openly, calculating what dissent might cost them.
Qatar alone has sent billions of dollars to American universities since 2001, more than any other foreign country, including China. Qatar’s involvement should not be taken lightly, given its longtime backing of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and the Islamic Revolutionary regime in Iran. Qatar is also the home of Al Jazeera, the premier propaganda machine that has been fueling hatred toward Israel and Western democratic values over the past three decades.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Trying to reform Islam is like polishing a turd. Let the ones who don’t like it become Christian.
Really old news...
American universities have been prime targets since the 1980s...
The flood of ragheads into the university systems began in the late 1970s and early 1980s...
Anyone who wears a hijab without being forced to is an extremist, IMO. One of the authors of that article wears one. Anything of that sort needed to rejected in the U.S.
Qatar is using asymmetrical warfare to destroy us from within while pretending to be an ally.
As of 2026, the population of Qatar is about 350,000 citizens and 3,002,000 foreigners.
American colleges sell out very very very cheaply.
And dozens of them sold out years ago, this report is hardly news.
Nobody in or out of government does a dammmmmmed thing about this and it is VERY VERY EXTREMELY serious.
(PDJT has taken a few actions but the problem persists ...)
Excellent analogy. 😄👍
They aren’t saying it is new news; what is new is that we have here two muslims willing to bring up the subject and Bewsweek’s new ownership is willing to publish what they have to say against Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Qatar. And that change in the media is new.
Interesting:
…. The House has passed the DETERRENT Act twice with bipartisan support. Both times, the Senate has sat on it. In May, a coalition of 26 academic, policy and civil society organizations, spearheaded by ISGAP and others, called on Congress to take decisive action. The DETERRENT Act is straightforward. It lowers the foreign gift reporting threshold from $250,000—set in 1986 and never updated—to $50,000 for most countries and to zero for China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. And it adds real penalties, including potential loss of federal student aid, which is the only consequence universities have ever taken seriously. It does not ban international partnerships. It requires one thing: that universities tell the public who is paying them…..
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There is no evidence yet presented that either one is an extremist or supports anything extremist. Quite the opposite.
Extremists are in the minority even among muslims but they are such a vicious minority that the bulk of people are afraid to even criticize their extremism, and furthermore, any who have come to reject Islam itself are afraid to admit so publicly.
There is no belief system on earth that has 100% acceptance among the local population - if there were 100% acceptance, or even majority acceptance, there would be no need for religious/morality police to enforce the belief system. There would be no ban on Bibles or opposing religions. The adherents would be utterly confident in the strength of their population’s ideology. But instead they are lacking in faith and feel the need to build walls around their people to deny them the option of alternate ideologies. That’s not strength, that is weakness.
The enemy wants you to believe they are all of the same mind, indeed, the enemy wants every non extremist to believe they are alone, or few. If they can get you to believe that, they win.
Antifa was trying to use the same tactics as islamic extremists by taking over and occupying entire city precincts and threatening violence against anyone who dared point out that they are just a small motley bunch of effeminate marxist/maoist freaks and delusional lesbians called up to riot on demand by rich radicals.
Are extremists dangerous, even though they are a minority of any population?
Absolutely, but never fall for the idea that they are in the majority.
Human beings on whole always choose the path of least resistance— the easiest path at the moment, even if they don’t believe it is the best path in the long run. The extremists have figured out that they can use that go with the flow aspect of human nature to their advantage by making some routes more intimidating than others. By constantly nipping at people’s heels, driving them away from the pain on this side or that, that they can get the majority to move in any direction the extremists choose—- even if it is over a cliff—- but the extremists only have this capability so long as the extremists are the only ones doing the nipping.
When others take the initiative and have the courage to enter the fray to counter the extremist dogs biting at people’s heels , we should encourage rather than discourage it.
“Trying to reform Islam is like polishing a turd. Let the ones who don’t like it become Christian.”
We have a woman, who was born in Iran, living in our condos. She’s in her early 40s and loves Trump - and America and wishes the people had the supplies/weapons to end the evil regime once and for all.
“American colleges sell out very very very cheaply.”
But American students are some of the best at catching, toting, and kicking the ball.
Yep, we enriched them to our detriment if we are without pushback.
Islam is the problem. They are not practicing true Islam.
I regard traditional universities as dinosaurs.
The federal student loan program should be ended.
There are no Extremists in Islam except the Twelvers. The 12ers’ belief is not in the Koran. Everything else that we call “extremist” is in the Koran. All Mohammedans believe the Koran rightly orders their lives. They are divided into two groups in reality, those who are determined to kill infidels or enslave them and those who want the first group to succeed. Any other modification incurs a death sentence and thus is not uttered except by the one in ten million who voices reason and sanity. Those are apostates and incur death fatwas which can be carried out by anyone at all.
There are no Extremists in Islam except the Twelvers. The 12ers’ belief is not in the Koran. Everything else that we call “extremist” is in the Koran. All Mohammedans believe the Koran rightly orders their lives. They are divided into two groups in reality, those who are determined to kill infidels or enslave them and those who want the first group to succeed. Any other modification incurs a death sentence and thus is not uttered except by the one in ten million who voices reason and sanity. Those are apostates and incur death fatwas which may be carried out by anyone at all.
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