Focus on Western Islamism & the Dhimmitude Institute

Islamism is not only a Middle East story. Focus on Western Islamism, under managing editor Dexter Van Zile, reports it where it lives, and now expands through the newly launched Dhimmitude Institute, in its founding year. The Institute takes its name seriously: dhimmitude is the old system of conditioned deference, and its modern Western echo, institutions that self-censor before Islamist pressure ever arrives, is the Institute’s subject.

Islamism advances in the West less by force than by accommodation: the school board that folds, the newsroom that softens its language, the agency that keeps funding what it should be investigating. Naming the pattern is the first defense against it. That is journalism’s job, and almost no one else is doing it.

The Institute’s founding year: charter, advisory board, and the first publication slate that sets its standard, alongside the reporting desk’s continuing coverage of Islamism inside American institutions.