Danny Burmawi
Danny Burmawi is a Jordanian-born author, analyst, and public intellectual specializing in comparative religions, Theology, and Middle East Affairs. He is the founder and executive director of the Ideological Defense Institute (IDI), a U.S.-based research and public-education institute. Born and raised in a Muslim family in Jordan, Burmawi converted to Christianity in 2007. As a result, he was forced to leave his home country and relocate to Lebanon, where he lived and worked for approximately fifteen years. During this period, he founded and led multiple Christian organizations across the Middle East, traveled to more than forty countries and delivered lectures, seminars, and training programs across the Middle East, Europe, and North America. Due to the sensitivity of his work, much of it was conducted under a low public profile. In 2023, months before the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, Burmawi relocated to the United States to pursue advanced theological studies. The scale of the October 7 atrocities and the subsequent ideological fallout in Western capitals, particularly the failure of mainstream analysis to account for the religious and ideological drivers of the conflict, prompted him to found the Ideological Defense Institute. Since October 7, Burmawi has published more than one hundred long-form articles and thousands of short-form analytical commentaries, focusing on the ideological nature of the Arab-Israeli conflict, Islamic movements in Western societies, mass migration, and the erosion of civilizational confidence in the West. His work has appeared across mainstream media outlets and major podcasts, and his analysis has rapidly attracted a substantial international following across social media platforms. He is the author of Islam, Israel, and the West, a best-selling book examining the theological and ideological foundations of the Arab–Israeli conflict and Western engagement with political Islam.
Islam is the Problem
August 2026:On September 11, 2001, the world watched as nineteen men turned commercial airliners into weapons of mass murder. Nearly three thousand people died in the space of a few hours. The perpetrators left no ambiguity: they acted in the name of Islam, citing the Qur’an and the example of Muhammad as they struck what they saw as the heart of unbelief. For a brief, clarifying moment, the mask slipped. The ideology that had animated centuries of conquest, subjugation, and doctrinal absolutism stood exposed in the dust and fire of Manhattan, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. Here was Islam as a political system that commands its followers to fight until the religion of Allah reigns supreme.
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