
Dexter Van Zile
Managing Editor at Middle East Forum
Violin Family Research Fellow, Middle East Forum (MEF). Managing Editor, Focus on Western Islamism (FWI).
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3 weeks ago |
meforum.org | Dexter Van Zile
A mosque has taken a divisive approach to promoting the Muslim faith in New York City. The Muslim Community Center (MCC) of Staten Island has enlisted the teaching skills of Tarek Mehanna, a prominent extremist who was convicted in 2011 of conspiring to kill his fellow U.S. citizens and sentenced to seventeen years in federal prison for his crimes.
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1 month ago |
dextervanzile.substack.com | Dexter Van Zile
In 2022, I interviewed Umar Lee, a prominent Muslim activist from St. Louis, for the publication I edit, Focus on Western Islamism (FWI). One of the electrifying moments of the interview came when Lee said that he discourages young white men from converting to Islam. Muslims born into the faith regard white male converts with suspicion that will likely never go away, he warned.
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2 months ago |
dextervanzile.substack.com | Dexter Van Zile
The author near Lake Kivu, Bukavu, Zaire, 1987. As strange as it sounds, President Donald Trump needs to pay close attention to a group of leftists who started a movement called, “Decolonize the Peace Corps” a few years back. The organization has a bracing message: the only people who are really helped by the Peace Corps are its volunteers and that it’s time to shut the organization down.
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2 months ago |
dextervanzile.substack.com | Dexter Van Zile
The author near Lake Kivu, Bukavu, Zaire, 1987. As strange as it sounds, President Donald Trump needs to pay close attention to a group of leftists who started a movement called, “Decolonize the Peace Corps” a few years back. The organization has a bracing message: the only people who are really helped by the Peace Corps are its volunteers and that it’s time to shut the organization down.
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2 months ago |
dextervanzile.substack.com | Dexter Van Zile
Anglican scholar Gerald McDermott (above) has written a restorative and kerygmatic text that is of interest to scholars and lay Christians struggling to withstand the turmoil of the current age. (Photo by Dexter Van Zile). In his penultimate book, The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy posits the widely held belief that the end is near for Western civilization. He offers this message through his aptly named protagonist, Bobby Western—whose father, a nuclear physicist, worked on the Manhattan Project.
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