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The site features commentary by multiple editors, and its most frequent editor is Robert Spencer.[15] It is a project of the
David Horowitz Freedom Center.[14]Dhimmi Watch was a
blog on the Jihad Watch site, also maintained by Spencer, focusing on alleged outrages by Muslims.[16]
Funding
The Horowitz Freedom Center has paid Spencer, as Jihad Watch's director, a $132,000 salary in 2010. Jihad Watch has also received funding from donors supporting the Israeli right,[15] and a variety of individuals and foundations, like
Bradley Foundation and Joyce Chernick, wife of Aubrey Chernick.[17] Politico said that during 2008–2010, "the lion's share of the $920,000 it [David Horowitz Freedom Center] provided over the past three years to Jihad Watch came from [Joyce] Chernick".[17] In 2015, Jihad Watch received approximately $100,000 in revenue, with three quarters of that revenue coming from donations.[18]
Content and traffic
Articles begin with editorial commentary, then follow usually with a linked excerpt from a news website.
Jihad Watch is one of the world's most popular sites on the subject of terrorism, with more than 6,000 other sites being linked to it.[6] It is the most popular
counter-jihad blog.[14]
Benazir Bhutto, the
Pakistani Prime Minister, in her book Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West, wrote that Spencer uses Jihad Watch to spread misinformation and hatred of Islam. She added that he presents a skewed, one-sided, and inflammatory story that only helps to sow the seed of civilizational conflict.[22]
Abdel Bari Atwan, the editor-in-chief of the London-based pan-Arab newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi, wrote that "Most of the effective surveillance work tracking jihadi sites is being done not by the FBI or MI6, but by private groups. The best-known and most successful of those are [
Internet] Haganah ... SITE [
Institute] ... and Jihad Watch."[23]
The website was cited 64 times by Norwegian
far-right terroristAnders Behring Breivik, who committed the
2011 Norway attacks due to his belief that Muslim immigrants were a threat to Western culture.[24] Breivik later said that he was a neo-Nazi since the early 1990s, and only in later years disguised himself with and exploited counter-jihad writings.[25]
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Larsson, Göran (2014). "Islamophobia or Legitimate Concern? Contrasting Official and Populist Understanding of Opposition to Muslims". In Mays, Christin; Deland, Mats; Minkenberg, Michael (eds.). In the Tracks of Breivik: Far Right Networks in Northern and Eastern Europe. Vienna: Lit Verlag. pp. 155–66.
ISBN9783643905420.
OCLC881140905. [Jihad Watch] can also be seen as a type of hub for the expression of anti-Muslim attitudes
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abArmstrong, Karen (27 April 2007). "Balancing the Prophet". Financial Times.
Archived from the original on 12 September 2007. Retrieved 3 February 2008.
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abcPertwee, Ed (10 December 2020).
"Donald Trump, the anti-Muslim far right and the new conservative revolution". Ethnic and Racial Studies. 43 (16): 211–230.
doi:10.1080/01419870.2020.1749688.
S2CID218843237. Among the [David Horowitz Freedom Center]'s many projects are Jihad Watch, the most popular counter-jihad blog; 'Discover the Networks', a database of the US Left; and FrontPage, an online magazine edited by Jamie Glazov, whose internet TV show, The Glazov Gang, broadcasts interviews with leading counter-jihad figures.
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abBarnard, Anne; Feuer, Alan (10 October 2010).
"Outraged, And Outrageous". The New York Times.
Archived from the original on 24 June 2017. Retrieved 17 February 2017.