Meet the Islamist from Texas Preaching Online Hate Against Hindus and the West
An Islamist who promotes an ideology similar to the teachings of the Islamic State—the organization that murdered and raped its way across vast sections of the Middle East and beyond— has set up shop in El Paso, Texas.
November 1, 2024Sarojini Siva, Dexter Van Zile
Abu Najim Bin al-Iskandar, a Texas translator who also goes by the name Abu Najm Rodriguez, has promoted contempt and hostility toward Hindus and Western notions of religious freedom after the fall of Hasina government in Bangladesh in August.
Abu Najim Bin al-Iskandar, a Texas Islamist who also goes by the name Abu Najm Rodriguez, has promoted contempt and hostility toward non-Muslims, moderate Muslims and Westerners in general.
An Islamist who promotes an ideology similar to the teachings of the Islamic State—the organization that murdered and raped its way across vast sections of the Middle East and beyond— has set up shop in El Paso, Texas. This evangelist of Islamist hostility and supremacism, who claims to be studying for a Ph.D. (but won’t say where) and brags of being investigated by the FBI, goes by the name of Abu Najim Bin al-Iskandar or Abu Najm Rodriguez.
“I’ve been active online for over 20 years, much of that time under investigation by the FBI/JTTF [the Joint Terrorism Task Force] for something or another,” Iskandar declared in an email to Focus on Western Islamism (FWI), which he accused of buying into a narrative offered by Hindu radicals about his statements. “Must be slow at the MEF & FWI.” (“It is a long-standing practice of the FBI to neither confirm nor deny the existence of investigations,” the FBI informed FWI via email.)
Iskandar expresses particular contempt for Hindus in Bangladesh and Muslims who assimilate in the West. He displayed this contempt in numerous messages posted on X after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government in Bangladesh in August. His calls for the subjugation of non-Muslims have caught the attention of Hindu activists and journalists in India who accuse Iskandar of “instigating Islamists in Bangladesh against the Hindu community.”
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