Known as a voice in discussions around Islam in the United States, the Yaqeen Institute is a Texas-based think tank specializing in religious apologism for the Muslim faith. Immediately following the October 7 terrorist attack on Israel which left more than 1,200 civilians dead, the Yaqeen Institute president Omar Suleiman wrote an article in which he defended Hamas’s behavior as a consequence of “the current escalation of Israeli aggression and Palestinian resistance.” The Research Director of Islam and Society at the Yaqeen Institute, Imam Tom Facchine, proclaimed unequivocal support for the terror attacks, stating “We are with the Palestinian resistance 100%, no ifs, no ands, no buts, no equivocations, no apologies, no condemnations.”