Federal Government Watch -
Trump Administration Still a Mixed Bag on Islamic Issues
by Clare M. Lopez
October 2025
“Qatar Tried to Bribe Trump Negotiator on Hamas-Israel Deal” by Daniel Greenfield at Jihad Watch, September 30, 2025
“The Courtship of Ahmad al-Sharaa” at Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), September 26, 2025
“’Material Support’ and an Ohio Chaplain: How 9/11-Era Terror Rules Could Empower Trump’s Immigration Crackdown” by Hannah Allam at Pro Publica, September 9, 2025
“Retired FBI agent exposes Hamas’ long game in America” by Maayan Hoffman at Y Net Global, 09/14/2025
ICYMI: “DHS pulls funding from groups with ‘alleged terrorist ties’ after watchdog report” by Morgan Phillips at FOX News, August 20, 2025
Trump Administration Still a Mixed Bag on Islamic Issues
by Clare M. Lopez
October 2025
“Qatar Tried to Bribe Trump Negotiator on Hamas-Israel Deal” by Daniel Greenfield at Jihad Watch, September 30, 2025
- It’s long been known that the fabulously wealthy Gulf Emirate of Qatar has backed, funded, and supported Islamic terror groups such as HAMAS.
- (For example, see this January 2013 piece by Clare M. Lopez at RadicalIslam.org, entitled “Qatar: Banker to the Global Jihad”:
- Here, Daniel Greenfield looks askance at Qatar’s financial discussions with a member of Trump negotiator Steve Witkoff’s family.
“The Courtship of Ahmad al-Sharaa” at Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), September 26, 2025
- This is an audio discussion among FDD scholars Cliff May (Founder/President), David Adesnik (Vice President of Research), and Ahmad Sharawi (Research Analyst) that urges caution for the Trump administration in dealing with the new jihadi ruler of Damascus, Ahmad al-Sharaa.
“’Material Support’ and an Ohio Chaplain: How 9/11-Era Terror Rules Could Empower Trump’s Immigration Crackdown” by Hannah Allam at Pro Publica, September 9, 2025
- This is about Ayman Soliman, an immigrant from Egypt, who initially was granted political asylum in the U.S. When his name was flagged on the FBI’s terror watch list (over membership in the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Al-Gam’iyya al Shar’iyya terror group in Egypt), however, he had that asylum revoked by the Biden administration. He was arrested by ICE on July 9, 2025.
- More here: “ICE arrests former Children's hospital chaplain who was flagged on FBI terror watchlist” by Misty Severi at Just the News, July 9, 2025
“Retired FBI agent exposes Hamas’ long game in America” by Maayan Hoffman at Y Net Global, 09/14/2025
- Although HAMAS, the Gaza branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, doesn’t have a real presence in the U.S., other Muslim Brotherhood front groups, such as CAIR, ICNA, ISNA, MAS, MPAC, NAIT and many others named as ‘unindicted co-conspirators’ in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation trial (which was about material support to terrorism), do. In the U.S., while neither the Muslim Brotherhood nor any of these groups has ever committed an act of kinetic violence (terrorism) against the U.S. or Americans, what they do engage in is far more dangerous to our Republic, simply because we’re not well prepared to recognize or counter it—and that is Islamic subversion.
ICYMI: “DHS pulls funding from groups with ‘alleged terrorist ties’ after watchdog report” by Morgan Phillips at FOX News, August 20, 2025
- Question has to be, ‘Why was FEMA’s Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) funding groups identified as Muslim Brotherhood front groups—such as CAIR, ICNA and the Dar al-Hijrah 9/11 mosque in Falls Church, VA—with U.S. taxpayer dollars in the first place” ?
- [Editor’s Note: we reported on this in our August 2025 issue.]