Every enforcement win starts as a case file. Islamist Watch, directed by Sam Westrop, builds them, and what starts here does not stay here: investigations become referrals at the Debarment Project and legislation through MEF Action.
The Stakes
Islamist networks in the West are built to be illegible: charities layered over foundations, schools over trusts, new names over old boards. Illegibility is the defense. The answer is not commentary; it is documentation: names, dates, filings, and money flows assembled to a standard a regulator, a legislator, or a court can act on without further proof.
The Record
•A counter-Islamist database of more than 4 million data points and 500-plus published investigations, the largest body of investigative counter-Islamism journalism in the Western world.
•Texas: roughly 2 dozen terror-tied schools struck from the state’s $1 billion voucher program after the Comptroller adopted our investigation.
•The case files behind the formal HHS investigation of CAIR and behind H.R. 8236.
•The exposé behind Treasury’s designation of a Hamas-linked charity.
What Is Next
Carry the Texas methodology into Georgia, Oklahoma, Florida, and Arizona; keep the database growing ahead of the next referral; and keep the standard where it has always been: evidence-grade, because everything downstream depends on it.
4M+
Data points in the counter-Islamist database, the largest body of investigative counter-Islamism journalism in the Western world.
What a Gift Funds
Investigator time: the documented, evidence-grade case files behind the Texas, Treasury, and court wins. Investigations are labor: records requests, filings analysis, translation, and verification, done by people who know what a case file has to survive.
To Discuss a Gift
Gregg Roman
Executive Director
