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In the aftermath of the Israel-Iran war, and as the FBI announced, the U.S. is facing threats from Iranian and Hezbollah sleeper cells within the country. The MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor project monitors this and other jihadi activity in the U.S. and Canada, providing timely alerts to law enforcement, on the federal, state, and local levels. Our alerts about jihadi activity have in the past led to arrests, helped support prosecutions, and led to convictions.
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In the U.S. and Canada, and across the West, MEMRI's Sermons By Imams in the West project is monitoring extremist imams and Islamist organizations who are often behind anti-U.S. and anti-Israel protests and activity – such as the rally in Portland, OR where participants chanted "Death to America! Death to Israel!" and called "the American entity" – the U.S. –"a den of liars."
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As multiple Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle are supporting legislature to declare the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, MEMRI's research continues to expose the Qatari regime – the main sponsor of the Muslim Brotherhood and terrorism around the world – and will serve Congress as an important resource. With our Qatar Monitor Project, we maintain the largest archive in the world of translated content from Qatari media, including its Al-Jazeera network, as Qatar continues to pay massive sums to gain influence in American and Western politics, higher education, media, and other areas of U.S. and Western life – including backing pro-jihad, pro-Hamas, and pro-Iran activity.
For many years, we have been closely following the Qatar-supported International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), which is one of the Qatari regime's main tools for disseminating extremist anti-Western Islamist ideology, routinely inciting jihad, terrorism and antisemitism. The IUMS recently called the U.S. "the cause of all our troubles."
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