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'''Daniel Pipes''' (born ], ]) is an American ] in the United States, a journalist, polemicist, historian, author, ] analyst, and columnist on the Middle East. He has written or co-written 18 books and keeps a widely read blog site. Some of his work has attracted controversy because of his view that aspects of ] are incompatible with democracy, freedom, multiculturalism, and other values he associates with the ]. Pipes critics have attacked him for what they believe is his aggresively negative depiction of the Islamic world, his misrepresentation of Islamic history and his extreme pro-Israeli views.
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'''Daniel Pipes''' (born September 9, 1949) is an American former professor and commentator on foreign policy and the Middle East. He is the president of the ], and publisher of its '']'' journal. His writing focuses on ] and the Middle East as well as ].


After graduating with a doctorate from ] in 1978 and studying abroad, Pipes taught at universities including Harvard, ], ], and the ] on a short-term basis but never held a permanent academic position.<ref name ="Lockman" /> He then served as director of the ], before founding the Middle East Forum. He served as an adviser to Rudy Giuliani's ].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN1641392220071119 |title= Giuliani style evokes concern among critics |work=] |date=November 19, 2007 |first=Ellen|last=Wulfhorst|access-date=July 22, 2009}}</ref>
Pipes is the founder and director of the ] and ], a former member of the board of the ], and a regular columnist for the '']'' and '']''. He contributes regularly to ]'s online publication ], and has had his work published by many newspapers across North America, including the '']'', '']'', and '']''. He is frequently invited to discuss the Middle East on American network television, as well as by universities and think tanks, has appeared on the ] and ], and has lectured in 25 countries.


Pipes is a critic of Islam, and his views have been criticized by ] and other academics, many of whom maintain they are ] or racist. Pipes has made claims about alleged "]" overrun by ] law in Europe and about ], and has defended ]'s book '']''.<ref name="SPLC2018">{{cite web |last1=Beutel |first1=Alejandro |title=Anti-Muslim figure Daniel Pipes advocates partnering with far-right political parties |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/04/18/anti-muslim-figure-daniel-pipes-advocates-partnering-far-right-political-parties |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |access-date=24 February 2022 |language=en |date=18 April 2018}}</ref>
Pipes is also the founder of ], an organization and website that supports ideological diversity in the academic world and opposes what it sees as anti-U.S. and anti-Israel bias. Pipes and the organization were accused of attacking ] in 2002 by publishing a list of academics critical of Israel and U.S. foreign policy. <ref name=McNeil>, ''The Nation'', November 11, 2002.</ref>


Pipes has written sixteen books and was the Taube Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Stanford University's ].<ref name=Hoover> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140427043635/http://www.hoover.org/fellows/9955 |date=2014-04-27 }}, Fellows, ] website. Accessed July 24, 2011.</ref>
==Background==
Pipes was born in ], ], the son of ] historian ] and his wife Irene (née Roth). Both Pipes' parents were from assimilated ] ]ish families that escaped from ] in 1939. The couple met in the ] in 1944, and married two years later. Daniel was their first child.


==Early life and education==
Pipes attended the Harvard pre-school, then received a private school education, partly abroad. He enrolled in Harvard University in the fall of 1968; for his first two years he studied ], but has stated: "I wasn't smart enough. So I chose to become a historian." He credits visits to the ] in 1968 and the ] in 1969 for piquing his interest in ], and for the following two years he studied the ]. Pipes obtained a ] in ] in 1971; his senior thesis was titled ''A Medieval Islamic Debate: The World Created in Eternity'', a study of ], one of the greatest ]s, ]s and ] thinkers in the Islamic tradition.
The son of Irene (née Roth) and ], Daniel Pipes was born into a Jewish family in ], ], in 1949.<ref name=Press>{{cite magazine | first = Eyal | last = Press | url = http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb1367/is_200405/ai_n6382769 | title = Neocon man: Daniel Pipes has made his name inveighing against an academy overrun by political extremists. | magazine = The Nation | date = May 2004 | access-date = August 17, 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071113071644/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb1367/is_200405/ai_n6382769 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = November 13, 2007}}</ref> His parents had each fled ] with their families, and they met in the United States.<ref>Richard Pipes. ''Vixi: memoirs of a non-belonger''. 2006, page 2; page 50</ref> His father, Richard Pipes, was a historian at ], specializing in Russia, and Daniel Pipes grew up primarily in the ] area.


Pipes attended the Harvard pre-school, then received a private school education, partly abroad. He enrolled in Harvard University, where his father was a professor, in the fall of 1967. For his first two years he studied ] but said he "found the material too abstract".<ref name=Ballon>{{cite news |title=Daniel Pipes fights the worldwide threat of Islamism – from Malibu|url=http://www.danielpipes.org/article/4326 |last=Ballon|first=Marc|work=]|date=March 6, 2007|access-date=May 12, 2008}}</ref><ref name=Tassel>{{cite news|first=Janet|last=Tassel|url=http://harvardmagazine.com/2005/01/militant-about-islamism.html|title=Militant about "Islamism"|work=]|access-date=May 26, 2016|date=January–February 2005}}</ref> After visiting the ] in 1968, the ] in 1969,<ref name=Tassel/> and travels in West Africa, he changed his major to ].<ref name=Ballon/> He obtained a ] in ] in 1971. His senior thesis was a study of ] and other Muslim philosophers.<ref name=Tassel/> After graduating in 1971, Pipes spent two years in ], then earned a ] in 1978, also from Harvard.<ref name=Ballon/> He wrote a book on colloquial ], published in 1983.<ref>{{cite book|first=Daniel|last=Pipes|year=1983|title=An Arabist's Guide to Egyptian Colloquial|url=https://www.danielpipes.org/books/an-arabists-guide-to-egyptian-colloquial.pdf|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=Foreign Service Institute|lccn=83081668}}</ref>
He returned to Harvard in 1973 and obtained a ] in medieval Islamic history in 1978. His Ph.D. dissertation eventually became his first book, ''Slave Soldiers and Islam'', in 1981. He studied abroad for six years, three of which were spent in ], where he wrote a book on colloquial ] which was published in 1983. He taught world history at the ] from 1972 to 1982, history at Harvard from 1983 to 1984, and policy strategy at the ] from 1984 to 1986.


==Career==
Pipes has served in various capacities at the ] and ], and has testified to the ]. <!--and has worked on four presidential campaigns.--> He has been awarded honorary doctorates from universities in Switzerland and the United States. He speaks French and English and can read Arabic and German.
===Work in academia===
Pipes returned to Harvard in 1973 and, after further studies abroad (in ] and ]), obtained a ] in medieval Islamic history<ref name=Press/> in 1978. His doctoral dissertation eventually became his first book, ''Slave Soldiers and Islam'', in 1981. He switched his academic interest from medieval Islamic studies to modern Islam in the late 1970s, with the rise of ] and the ].<ref name=Press/>


He taught world history at the ] from 1978 to 1982, history at Harvard from 1983 to 1984, and policy and strategy at the ] from 1984 to 1986. In 1982–83, Pipes served on the policy-planning staff at the State Department in 1982–83.<ref>Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite, Kaplan, Robert D., p. 287, Simon and Schuster, 1995</ref>
He has been married twice, and has three daughters.


=== Post-academia ===
As of January 2007, Pipes held the position of ] at ] teaching a course titled "International Relations: Islam and Politics." <ref>, University of Pepperdine.</ref>
Pipes largely left academia after 1986, although he taught a course titled "International Relations: Islam and Politics" as a visiting professor at ]'s ] in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pepperdine.edu/pr/releases/2006/december/danielpipes.htm|title=School of Public Policy Announces 2007 Distinguished Visiting Professor: Daniel Pipes|publisher=]|access-date=May 13, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071208195838/http://www.pepperdine.edu/pr/releases/2006/december/danielpipes.htm|archive-date=2007-12-08|url-status=dead}}</ref> Pipes told an interviewer from '']'' that he has "the simple politics of a truck driver, not the complex ones of an academic. My viewpoint is not congenial with institutions of higher learning."<ref name=Tassel/>


From 1986 on, Pipes worked for think tanks. From 1986 to 1993, he was director of the ]-based ] (FPRI) and editor of its journal, '']''. In 1990, he organized the ] as a unit of FPRI; it became an independent organization with himself as head in January 1994. Pipes edited its journal, the '']'', until 2001. He established ] as a project of the Middle East Forum in 2002, followed by the Legal Project in 2005, Islamist Watch in 2006, and the Washington Project in 2009.
==Praise, criticism and controversy==
His allies at The '']'' have called Pipes "an authoritative commentator on the Middle East.<ref>], "", ], April 1, 2006</ref> ] of ] described him as one of the best-known "Mideast policy luminaries" <ref>], "", ], November 21, 2001</ref>. ] referred to him one "of the country’s leading experts" on the Middle East. In the ''Boston Globe'' ] wrote, "If Pipes's admonitions had been heeded, there might never have been a 9/11."


In 2003, President ] nominated Pipes for the board of the ]. A ] was launched by ] Senators in the ] against Pipes' nomination.<ref name=LATedit>{{cite news|title=A Misdirected Attack: Editorial|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-aug-17-ed-pipes17-story.html|work=]|date=August 17, 2003|access-date=May 12, 2008}}</ref> Senator ] said that he was "offended" by Pipes' comments on Islam, and that while "some people call a scholar... this is not the kind of person you want on the USIP."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/jul03_pipes-stalled.html|title=Daniel Pipes nomination stalled in committee|work=]|date=July 23, 2003|access-date=May 13, 2008}}</ref> While defending Pipes' nomination, White House spokesman ] distanced Bush from Pipes's views, saying that Bush "disagrees with Pipes about whether Islam is a peaceful religion".<ref name=Stevenson/> Pipes obtained the position by ]<ref name=Tassel/> and served on the board until early 2005. His nomination was protested by ] groups in the U.S., and ] leaders.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.husainhaqqani.com/2003/07/|title=Where's the Muslim Debate?|last=Haqqani|first=Husain|date=July 2003}}</ref><ref name=lockman>Lockman, Zachary. ''Contending visions of the Middle East''. 2004, page 257</ref><ref>Hagopian, Elaine Catherine. ''Civil rights in peril''. 2004, page 113</ref> The '']'' wrote that "in trying to prevent Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes from joining the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace, Sens. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) and Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) are abusing their privilege."<ref name="LATedit" />
A 1984 '']'' book review by ] stated that "Pipes has handled his subject well. It is difficult these days to address the question of Islam, the Arabs, and their relations with Israel and remain nonpartisan. Pipes has managed to do just that. He has wended his way through that minefield unscathed" (''Business Week'', ] ]).


==''Campus Watch''==
On the other hand, a 1983 '']'' book review by ] stated that Pipes displays "a disturbing hostility to contemporary Muslims ... he professes respect for Muslims but is frequently contemptuous of them". It said his book "is marred by exaggerations, inconsistencies, and evidence of hostility to the subject" while admitting that "ew other writers have explained so lucidly such complex developments in Muslim history" and that his "book is a valuable contribution to our understanding" (''Washington Post'', ] ]).
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Pipes' ] sparked controversy in September 2002 when it established a website called ] that claimed to identify five problems in the teaching of Middle Eastern studies at American universities: "analytical failures, the mixing of politics with scholarship, intolerance of alternative views, ], and the abuse of power over students". Students were encouraged to submit reports regarding teachers, books and ]. The project was accused of "] intimidation" of professors who criticized ], when it published a "blacklist" of professors. In protest, more than 100 academics demanded to be listed as well. Campus Watch subsequently removed the list from their website. Pipes' think tank the ] established a website in 2002 called ], which identified what it saw as five problems in the teaching of Middle Eastern studies at American universities: "analytical failures, the mixing of politics with scholarship, intolerance of alternative views, ], and the abuse of power over students." According to '']'', Campus Watch is the project for which Pipes is "perhaps best known."<ref name=Elliott>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/nyregion/28school.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin | title=Critics Cost Muslim Educator Her Dream School |first=Andrea |last=Elliot |date=April 27, 2008 |access-date=May 3, 2008 |work= ]}}</ref>


Through Campus Watch, Pipes encouraged students and faculty to submit information on "Middle East-related scholarship, lectures, classes, demonstrations, and other activities relevant to Campus Watch".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.campus-watch.org/incident.php |title=Keep Us Informed |publisher=Campus Watch}}</ref> The project was accused of "] intimidation" of professors who criticized ] when it published "dossiers" on eight professors it thought "hostile" to America. In protest, more than a hundred academics demanded to be added to what some called a "blacklist". In October 2002 Campus Watch removed the dossiers from its website.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/09/28/MN227890.DTL | title = Professors want own names put on Mideast blacklist – They hope to make it powerless | work = ] | first = Tanya | last = Schevitz | date = September 28, 2002 | access-date = March 12, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/416 | title = Column a slur on Muslim community | first = Hussam | last = Ayloush | work = ] | date = December 1, 2002 | access-date = March 1, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/209 | title = 'Dossiers' dropped from Web blacklist | work = ] | first = Tanya | last = Schevitz | date = October 3, 2002 | access-date = March 12, 2008}}</ref><ref name=McNeil>{{cite news |first=Kristine |last=McNeil |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/war-academic-freedom/ |title=The War on Academic Freedom |work=] |date=November 11, 2002 |access-date=October 21, 2007 |archive-date=May 26, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100526090931/http://www.thenation.com/article/war-academic-freedom |url-status=dead }}</ref>
===Peace Institute appointment===
In April 2003, President Bush nominated Pipes for the board of the federally sponsored ], on which ] was already serving. Soon afterwards, a broad array of Arab-American, American Muslim, and other groups, vehemently denounced the appointment, claiming that Pipes was an "anti-Islamic extremist". A '']'' ] suggested that many Muslims viewed Pipes' nomination as a "sort of cruel joke". The ], headed by ], stated "For decades Daniel Pipes has displayed a bizarre obsession with all things Arab and Muslim. Now, it appears that his years of hatred and bigotry have paid off with a presidential appointment. One shudders to think how he will abuse this position to tear at the fabric of our nation."


==Views==
], who is also a prominent critic of Islamists, also expressed "bafflement" at this appointment in a critical essay entitled "Daniel Pipes is not a man of peace" in ]. <ref>], "", '']'', August 11 2003</ref> Hitchens claimed that Pipes "employs the fears and insecurities created by Islamic extremism to slander or misrepresent those who disagree with him" and that this contradicted the USIP's position as "a somewhat mild organization devoted to the peaceful resolution of conflict." Hitchens concluded his opposition to Pipes' nomination by claiming that Pipes "confuses scholarship with propaganda" and pursues "petty vendettas with scant regard for objectivity."
===Radical and moderate Islam===
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Pipes has long expressed alarm about what he believes to be the dangers of "radical" or "]" to the Western world. In 1985, he wrote in ''Middle East Insight'' that "he scope of the radical fundamentalist's ambition poses novel problems; and the intensity of his onslaught against the United States makes solutions urgent."<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.danielpipes.org/article/266 | title = "Death to America" in Lebanon | first=Daniel|last=Pipes | work = Middle East Insight | date = March–April 1985 | access-date = March 1, 2008 }}</ref> In the fall 1995 issue of '']'', he wrote: "Unnoticed by most Westerners, war has been unilaterally declared on Europe and the United States."<ref>{{cite news | title = There Are No Moderates: Dealing with Fundamentalist Islam
| url = http://www.danielpipes.org/article/274 | work = ] | date = Fall 1995 | first=Daniel |last=Pipes | access-date = March 1, 2008 }}</ref>


He wrote this in the aftermath of the ]; investigative journalist ] had said in the aftermath of the bombing that it bore a "Middle Eastern trait." Pipes agreed with Emerson and told '']'' that the United States was "under attack" and that ] "are targeting us."<ref name=Press/> Shortly after this, the bombing was determined by police to have been carried out by American anti-government terrorists ], ], and Michael Fortier.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www2.indystar.com/library/factfiles/crime/national/1995/oklahoma_city_bombing/ok.html |title=Library Factfiles: The Oklahoma City Bombing |work=] |date=August 9, 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110428230852/http://www2.indystar.com/library/factfiles/crime/national/1995/oklahoma_city_bombing/ok.html |archive-date=April 28, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Others, including Muslims, defended the appointment. ], chair of Islamic studies at ], asked "Who is better placed to act as a bridge than the scholar of Islam?" Pakistani-American ], editor of the '']'' and the '']'', called Pipes "a ]. He must be listened to. If there is no Daniel Pipes, there is no source for America to learn to recognize the evil which threatens it. Historians will write later that Pipes saved us. There are Muslims in America that are like Samson; they have come into the temple to pull down the pillars, even if it means destroying themselves." Sheikh Dr. ], a former visiting fellow in the human-rights program at ] stated "We Muslims need a thinker like Dr. Pipes, who can criticize the terrorist culture within Islam, just as I usually do."


Pipes wrote in 2007, "It's a mistake to blame Islam, a religion 14 centuries old, for the evil that should be ascribed to militant Islam, a totalitarian ideology less than a century old. Militant Islam is the problem, but moderate Islam is the solution."<ref name=Tassel/><ref>{{cite news| first=Daniel| last=Pipes| url=http://www.danielpipes.org/article/4497| title=A Million Moderate Muslims on the March|work=]|date= May 8, 2007}}</ref> Pipes described moderate Muslims as "a very small movement" in comparison to "the Islamist onslaught" and said that the U.S. government "should give priority to locating, meeting with, funding, forwarding, empowering, and celebrating" them.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.danielpipes.org/article/4426|title=Bolstering Moderate Muslims|last=Pipes|first=Daniel|date=2007-04-17|work=New York Sun|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070429071909/http://www.danielpipes.org/article/4426|archive-date=2007-04-29|url-status=live}}</ref>
Several ], including ] (D-]) and ] (D-]), expressed opposition to the nomination and stalled a vote in Chairman Judd Gregg's (R-NH) committee, and ] was forced to bypass the Republican-led Senate and proceeded with a ] on ], ]. Pipes served until January, 2005.


Pipes has praised ] in Turkey and the Sudanese thinker ].<ref>{{cite news|first=Daniel |last=Pipes |url=http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1208356966718&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120708210504/http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1208356966718&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 8, 2012 |work=] |title=A democratic Islam? |date=April 16, 2008 |access-date=May 13, 2008 }}</ref> In a September 2008 interview by ], Pipes stated that Muslims can be divided into three categories: "traditional Islam", which he sees as pragmatic and non-violent, "Islamism", which he sees as dangerous and militant, and "moderate Islam", which he sees as underground and not yet codified into a popular movement. He elaborated that he did not have the "theological background" to determine what group follows the ] the closest and is truest to its intent.<ref name=robinson>{{YouTube|Q7h3i0SHy3A|The Middle East with Daniel Pipes}}. '']''. ]. Published September 23, 2008. Accessed July 21, 2009.</ref>
===Continued friction===
In January 2004, '']'' magazine described Pipes as a "leading anti-Muslim hate propagandist". In a publication of Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs in a May 2, 2004 Pipes, in ] foresees the end of the golden era for Jews in the ].


===Muslims in Europe===
Pipes has had a series of confrontations with various U.S-based Islamic groups, especially the ] (CAIR). CAIR has described him as "an ]," while Pipes in turn charges that CAIR is an ] for Islamist terrorist groups like ] and ]. ] described the campaign against Pipes on the CAIR website as a "lynching."
In 1990, Pipes wrote in '']'' that Western European societies were "unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and maintaining different standards of hygiene ... Muslim immigrants bring with them a chauvinism that augurs badly for their integration into the mainstream of the European societies." At that time, he believed Muslim immigrants would "probably not change the face of European life" and might "even bring much of value, including new energy, to their host societies".<ref name="MuslimsComing">{{cite web|url=http://www.danielpipes.org/rr/198.html|title=The Muslims are Coming! The Muslims are Coming!|last=Pipes|first=Daniel|date=1990-11-19|work=Middle East Forum|publisher=]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180728205343/http://www.danielpipes.org/rr/198.html|archive-date=2018-07-28|url-status=live|access-date=2008-03-13}}</ref> New York University academic Arun Kundnani cited the article as "Islamophobic".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://gulfnews.com/arts-entertainment/books/the-muslims-are-coming-arun-kundnani-explains-terrorism-1.1313244|title='The Muslims are Coming!': Arun Kundnani explains terrorism|author=Syed Hamad Ali|date=2014-04-03|newspaper=Gulf News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140404063652/http://gulfnews.com/arts-entertainment/books/the-muslims-are-coming-arun-kundnani-explains-terrorism-1.1313244|archive-date=2014-04-04|url-status=live}}</ref> Pipes later said "my goal in it was to characterize the thinking of Western Europeans, not give my own views. In retrospect, I should either have put the words 'brown-skinned peoples' and 'strange foods' in quotation marks or made it clearer that I was explaining European attitudes rather than my own."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.danielpipes.org/198/the-muslims-are-coming-the-muslims-are-coming|title=The Muslims are Coming! The Muslims are Coming!|last=Pipes|first=Daniel|date=2017-04-05|website=Middle East Forum|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090208015944/http://www.danielpipes.org/198/the-muslims-are-coming-the-muslims-are-coming|archive-date=2009-02-08|url-status=live|access-date=2018-07-30}}</ref>


In 2006, Daniel Pipes said that certain neighborhoods in ] were "no-go zones" and "that the French state no longer has full control over its territory." In 2013, Pipes traveled to several of these neighborhoods and admitted he was mistaken. In 2015 he sent an email to '']'' saying that there are "no European countries with no-go zones."<ref name="bloomberg">{{Cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-14/debunking-the-muslim-nogo-zone-myth|title=Debunking the Myth of Muslim-Only Zones in Major European Cities|date=2015-01-14|newspaper=Bloomberg.com|access-date=2017-02-16}}</ref>
Pipes is also controversial in academia, where his ] positions&mdash;especially his strong support for ] and his argument that ] is a threat to the ]&mdash;conflicts with the views of some Middle East scholars, such as ], who describes Islamist movements as political forces leading to democratic progress.


In response to the '']'' ], Pipes wrote that the "key issue at stake" was whether the "West stand up for its customs and mores, including freedom of speech" and the "right to insult and blasphemy". He supported ]'s call to "stand resolutely with Denmark." He lauded Norway, Germany and France for their stance on the cartoons and freedom of speech, but criticized Poland, Britain, New Zealand and the United States for giving statements he interpreted as "wrongly apologizing."<ref>{{cite news|first=Daniel|last=Pipes|url=http://www.nysun.com/foreign/cartoons-and-islamic-imperialism/27151/|title=Cartoons and Islamic Imperialism|work=New York Sun|date=February 7, 2006|access-date=May 13, 2008|archive-date=June 10, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610174729/http://www.nysun.com/foreign/cartoons-and-islamic-imperialism/27151/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Pipes was invited to speak at the ] in March 2005 by a new student group at the University called ''The Middle East Forum at U of T''. The announcement sparked the following response: more than 80 professors and former graduate students wrote an open letter in which they claimed that Mr. Pipes had a "long record of ], ] and ] that goes back to 1990". The letter went on to say that:
<blockquote>Genuine academic debate requires an open and free exchange of ideas in an atmosphere of mutual respect and tolerance. We, the undersigned—professors, librarians and students—are committed to academic freedom and we affirm Pipes' right to speak at our university. However, we strongly believe that hate, prejudice and fear-mongering have no place on this campus. </blockquote>


Through his Middle East Forum, Pipes fund-raised for the Dutch politician ] during his ], according to '']''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://vorige.nrc.nl/binnenland/article2544752.ece/Partners_Wilders_in_VS_verdienen_aan_acties_tegen_moslimextremisme|title=Partners Wilders in VS verdienen aan acties teen moslimextremisme|date=May 15, 2010|language=nl|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111012085802/http://vorige.nrc.nl/binnenland/article2544752.ece/Partners_Wilders_in_VS_verdienen_aan_acties_tegen_moslimextremisme|archive-date=October 12, 2011}} Pipes is quoted saying he collected in 2009 a 6-digit figure for the party of Wilders.</ref> Pipes has praised Wilders as "the unrivaled leader of those Europeans who wish to retain their historic identity"<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/article/228978/why-i-stand-geert-wilders-daniel-pipes|title=Why I Stand with Geert Wilders |author=Daniel Pipes|newspaper=National Review|date=Jan 19, 2010}}</ref> and called him "the most important politician in Europe." At the same time, he found Wilders' political program "bizarre" and not to be taken too seriously<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/kultur/aktuell/die_islamdebatte_im_westen_ist_primitiv_1.8328724.html|title=A conversation with the American critics of Islam Daniel Pipes|date=November 10, 2012|newspaper=]|language=de|author=Ramon Schack}}</ref> while criticizing Wilders' understanding of Islam as "superficial" for being against all of Islam and not just its extreme variant.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/02/21/exclusive-usa-today-interview-with-dutch-anti-islam-politician-geert-wilders/98146112/|title=Would-be Dutch PM: Islam threatens our way of life|date=February 21, 2017|work=USA Today|author=Kim Hjelmgaard}}</ref>
Pipes responded by stating:
<blockquote>I've been criticized plenty, as this suggests. I'm being criticized today. I grant my critics the right to criticize me. And I retain the right to criticize them. None of us have police powers. Freedom of speech is freedom of speech for those one disagrees with, as well as those one does agree with.</blockquote>


===Muslims in the United States===
University officials said they would not interfere with Pipes' visit.
In October 2001, Pipes said before a convention of the ]: "I worry very much, from the Jewish point of view, that the presence, and increased stature, and affluence, and enfranchisement of American Muslims, because they are so much led by an Islamist leadership, that this will present true dangers to American Jews."<ref>{{cite web|last=Pipes|first= Daniel | url=http://www.danielpipes.org/article/1414 | title=A French lesson for Tom Harkin |work=] |date=January 5, 2004|access-date=May 13, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Ferguson |first=Barbara |url=http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4&section=0&article=59612&d=27&m=2&y=2005 | title=Daniel Pipes Continuing His Campaign Against Muslims |work=]}}</ref>


''The New York Times'' reported that American Muslims were "enraged" by Pipes' arguments that Muslims in government and military positions be given special attention as security risks and his opining that mosques are "breeding grounds for militants."<ref name="Stevenson">{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F07E5DE133DF93BA15757C0A9659C8B63|title=For Muslims, a Mixture Of White House Signals|last=Stevenson|first=Richard|date=April 28, 2003|work=The New York Times|access-date=November 29, 2007}}</ref> In a 2004 article in '']'', Pipes endorsed a defense of the ] during World War II, and linked the ] wartime situation to that of ] today.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://hnn.us/node/9289|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130716022606/http://hnn.us/node/9289|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 16, 2013|title=Japanese Internment: Why It Was a Good Idea – And the Lessons It Offers Today|newspaper=New York Sun|date=December 28, 2004}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://hnn.us/articles/9512.html|title=Japanese Internment: Why Daniel Pipes Is Wrong|author=Irfan Khawaja|publisher=]}}</ref>
On ] ] ], the vice-president of the ], published on its website's regular "Friday Bulletin" the article ''Worth Repeating: Media Propaganda: Hitler, Bush and the "Big Lie"'', which suggested Pipes was a follower of ] and/or used tactics like Hitler, <!--what did it say exactly?--> and that he wanted to ] Muslims from the United States. In its June 10 edition of the ''Friday Bulletin'' is issued an "Apology and Retraction", stating:
<blockquote>The Canadian Islamic Congress and Ms. Valiante apologize without reservation and retract remarks in the column that suggest that Dr. Daniel Pipes is a follower of Hitler or that he uses the tactics of Hitler or that he wants to ethnically cleanse America of its Muslim presence". </blockquote>


Pipes has criticized the ] (CAIR), which he says is an "]" for ] and ], and has a "roster of employees and board members connected to terrorism".<ref>{{cite web | author=Daniel Pipes |author2=Sharon Chadha | url=http://www.danielpipes.org/article/3437 | title=CAIR: Islamists Fooling the Establishment | work=] | date=Spring 2006}}</ref> CAIR, in turn, has said that "Pipes' writings are full of distortions and innuendo."<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.sptimes.com/2007/09/23/Worldandnation/With_CAIR__compromise.shtml | title=With CAIR, compromise complicated: The American Muslim group's stated goal is understanding. But some don't trust it. | newspaper=Tampa Bay Times |date=September 23, 2007 | author=Susan Taylor Martin|access-date=April 20, 2014}}</ref>
In May ], Pipes received the ].


''The New York Times'' cited Pipes as helping to lead the charge against ], a woman with a "longstanding reputation as a Muslim moderate" whom Pipes viewed as a representative of a pernicious new movement of "lawful Islamists." Almontaser resigned under pressure as principal of ], an Arabic-language high school in New York City named after the Christian Arab-American poet. Pipes initially described the school as a "]", which means school in Arabic but, in the West, carries the implication of Islamist teaching, though he later admitted that his use of the term had been "a bit of a stretch".<ref name=Elliott/> Pipes explained his opposition: "It is hard to see how violence, how terrorism will lead to the implementation of sharia. It is much easier to see how, working through the system—the school system, the media, the religious organizations, the government, businesses and the like—you can promote radical Islam."<ref name=Elliott/> Pipes had also stated that "Arabic-language instruction is inevitably laden with Pan-Arabist and Islamist baggage."<ref name=Elliott/>
==Opinions==
===Radical Islam===
Pipes has long expressed concern about the danger, as he sees it, of radical Islam to the Western world. In 1985, he wrote in ''Middle East Insight'' that "he scope of the radical fundamentalist's ambition poses novel problems; and the intensity of his onslaught against the United States makes solutions urgent." In the fall 1995 issue of ''National Interest'', he wrote: "Unnoticed by most Westerners, war has been unilaterally declared on Europe and the United States." Four months before the ], Pipes and American investigative journalist ] wrote in the '']'' that ] was "planning new attacks on the U.S." and that Iranian operatives "helped arrange advanced ... training for al Qaeda personnel in ] where they learned, for example, how to destroy large buildings."


===Views on American foreign policy===
===Support for Japanese Internment during World War II===
Pipes was a firm supporter of the ], and when his fellow students occupied the Harvard administration building to protest it in the 1960s, he sided with the administration.<ref name=Press/> Pipes had previously considered himself to be a ], but after anti-war ] gained the ] for ], he switched to the ].<ref name=Press/> Pipes used to accept being described as a "]", once saying that "others see me that way, and, you know, maybe I am one of them."<ref name="pipes_01"/><ref name=mark>{{cite news |url =http://www.abc.net.au/cgi-bin/common/printfriendly.pl?/pm/content/2006/s1603043.htm |title =US led coalition no longer responsible for Iraq: Daniel Pipes |publisher =] |last =Colvin |first =Mark |date =March 28, 2006 |access-date =2018-12-03 |archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20160304025700/http://www.abc.net.au/cgi-bin/common/printfriendly.pl?%2Fpm%2Fcontent%2F2006%2Fs1603043.htm |archive-date =2016-03-04 |url-status =dead }}</ref> However, he explicitly rejected the label in April 2009 due to differences with the neoconservative positions on democracy and Iraq, now considering himself a "plain ]".<ref name="pipes_01">{{cite news
Pipes expressed his support of "the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II because...given what was known and not known at the time...the U.S. government made the correct and sensible decisions." (See also his article ''Japanese Internment: Why It Was a Good Idea--And the Lessons It Offers Today.'') Pipes does not "advocate the internment of anyone today."
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===Donald Trump and the Republican Party===
===Arab-Israeli conflict===
In 2016, Pipes resigned from the ] after it endorsed ] as its 2016 presidential candidate.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.danielpipes.org/16834/why-i-just-quit-the-gop|title=Why I Just Quit the Republican Party|author=Daniel Pipes|date=2016-07-21|publisher=Daniel Pipes}}</ref> Yet he announced in a '']'' article of October 20, 2020, that he was voting for ] in that year's ], on the grounds that, "Rather than the person, I advise a focus on a party’s overall outlook... I urge fellow voters to dwell on the strikingly different platforms of the two major parties...and support whichever one better suits their own views; and to do so regardless of the candidates' many failings."<ref>Pipes, Daniel, "Why I'm voting for Trump," ''The Boston Globe'', October 20, 2020, https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/10/20/opinion/why-im-voting-trump/?p1=BGSearch_Advanced_Results</ref>
He wrote in ''Commentary'' in April 1990: "There can be either an Israel or a Palestine, but not both. To think that two states can stably and peacefully coexist in the small territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea is to be either naïve or duplicitous. If the last seventy years teach anything, it is that there can be only one state west of the Jordan River. Therefore, to those who ask why the Palestinians must be deprived of a state, the answer is simple: grant them one and you set in motion a chain of events that will lead either to its extinction or the extinction of Israel."


===Policy toward Iraq=== ===Arab–Israeli conflict===
Pipes supports ] in the ] and is an opponent of a ]. He wrote in '']'' in April 1990 that "there can be either an Israel or a Palestine, but not both ... to those who ask why the Palestinians must be deprived of a state, the answer is simple: grant them one and you set in motion a chain of events that will lead either to its extinction or the extinction of Israel."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.danielpipes.org/article/194 |title=Can the Palestinians Make Peace? |first=Daniel |last=Pipes |publisher=] with alterations by Daniel Pipes, reprinted on DanielPipes.org |date=April 1990 |access-date=May 13, 2008}}</ref> Pipes has proposed a ] to the conflict, in which Gaza would be given to Egypt and the West Bank to Jordan.<ref>"Solving the 'Palestinian Problem,'" by Daniel Pipes, ''The Jerusalem Post'', January 7, 2009 </ref>


In September 2008, he said, "Palestinians do not accept the existence of a Jewish state. Until that change, I don't see any point in having any kind of negotiations whatsoever." He also described the Israeli public as focused on a mistaken policy that he considers to be "]".<ref name=robinson/>
In 1987, Pipes encouraged the United States to provide ] with upgraded weapons and intelligence , ostensibly to counterbalance Iran's successes in the Iran-Iraq War. Years later, in April of 1991, when a debate was raging about the desirability of a U.S. intervention against the ] regime, Pipes wrote in the ''Wall Street Journal'' about the prospect of U.S. forces occupying Iraq, "with Schwartzkopf Pasha ruling from Baghdad": "It sounds romantic, but watch out. Like the Israelis in southern Lebanon nine years ago, American troops would find themselves quickly hated, with ]s taking up ], ]s resuming their rebellion, and the ]n and ]ian governments plotting new ways to sabotage American rule. Staying in place would become too painful, leaving too humiliating."


Pipes supported Israel in the ] stating "the civilized and moral forces of Israel came off well in this face-off with barbarism".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pipes |first1=Daniel |title=Lessons of the War in Gaza |url=https://townhall.com/columnists/danielpipes/2014/08/10/lessons-of-the-war-in-gaza-n1877069 |date=10 August 2014}}</ref> He has also defended the controversial ], stating "collecting information on students has particular value because it signals them that attacking Israel is serious business, not some inconsequential game, and that their actions can damage both Israel and their future careers".<ref>{{cite web |title=Shadowy Web Site Creates Blacklist of Pro-Palestinian Activists |date=27 May 2015 |url=https://forward.com/news/308902/shadowy-web-site-creates-black-list-of-pro-palestinian-activists/ |publisher=Forward}}</ref>
In a '']'' article published ] ], Pipes expressed his opposition to Egyptian President ]'s concerned prediction that " war will have horrible consequences...Terrorism will be aggravated...Terrorist organizations will be united...Everything will be insecure." Though this concern was echoed by various other politicians and academics cited by Pipes in his article, Pipes argued that "the precise opposite is more likely to happen: The war in Iraq will lead to a reduction in terrorism."


===Iran===
===Arafat's intentions at Oslo===
Pipes' opposition to Iran is long-standing. In 1980, Pipes wrote that "Iran made the transition to a post-oil economy. It is the only major oil exporter to abandon the heady billions and return to live by its own means."<ref>{{cite news|first=Daniel |last=Pipes |url=http://www.danielpipes.org/article/1026 |title=Iran's Good Fortune |newspaper=] |date=July 10, 1980}}</ref> Pipes was critical of the ] for its role in the ], writing that "American actions also helped to legitimize other kinds of help for, and capitulation to, the Ayatollah."<ref name=tilt>">{{cite magazine |first1=Daniel |last1=Pipes |url=http://www.danielpipes.org/5330/back-iraq |last2=Mylroie |first2=Laurie |title=Back Iraq: It's time for a U.S. 'tilt' |magazine=] |date=April 27, 1987}}</ref>
Writing in '']'' within days of the signing of the ], Pipes said: "Mr. ] has merely adopted a flexible approach to fit adverse circumstances, saying whatever needed to be said to survive. The ] had not a change of heart &mdash; merely a change of policy ... the deal with Israel represents a lease on life for the PLO, enabling it to stay in business until Israel falters, when it can deal a death blow."


In 2010, Pipes advocated that U.S. President ] "give orders for the U.S. military to destroy Iran's nuclear-weapon capacity. ... The time to act is now."<ref name="BombIran">{{cite news|first=Daniel |last=Pipes |url=http://www.danielpipes.org/article/1026 |title=How to Save the Obama Presidency: Bomb Iran |work=] |date=February 2, 2010}}</ref> He argued that "circumstances are propitious" for the U.S. to initiate a bombing of Iran, and that "no one other than the Iranian rulers and their agents denies that the regime is rushing headlong to build a large nuclear arsenal." He further stated that a unilateral U.S. bombing of Iran "would require few 'boots on the ground' and entail relatively few casualties, making an attack more politically palatable."<ref name="BombIran" />
===On Muslims===


Pipes advocates that the U.S. support the ] (MEK) against the Iranian government.<ref name="Unleash">{{cite news |first=Daniel |last=Pipes |url=http://www.danielpipes.org/article/4747 |title=Unleash the Iranian Opposition |work=New York Sun |via=DanielPipes.org |date=July 10, 2007 |access-date=March 25, 2008}}</ref><ref name=MEK>{{cite news|url=http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2012/02/resettling-the-mujahedeen-e-khalq-of-iraq|title=Resettling the Mujahedeen-e Khalq of Iraq|newspaper=National Review Online|author=Daniel Pipes|date=Feb 28, 2012|access-date=July 15, 2014}}</ref> Previously listed as a terrorist group by the U.S. and the ], Pipes had long advocated a change in that listing.<ref name=MEK/><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/13/john-kerry-mek_n_4960059.html|title=John Kerry Gets Pressed To Grant Asylum To Former Terrorist Group MEK|author=Christina Wilkie|date=March 13, 2014|newspaper=Huffington Post}}</ref> Pipes had described this listing as a "sop to the mullahs". He writes, "the MEK poses no danger to Americans or Europeans, and has not for decades. It does pose a danger to the malign, bellicose theocratic regime in Tehran."<ref name="Unleash" />
Daniel Pipes political views have been in general critical of many of the cultures which have adopted forms of Islam, as well a as general critism of many streams of the Muslim faith as expressed and practiced around the world. His emphasis has been on a his perception of a clash of civilizations between the West and even what many think are mainstream Muslim groups. He has also concerned himself with the problem of integration between various cultures within the Muslim dominamated world into European countries and the United States. He has outlined obstructing factors which are intrinsic to Muslim faith and as well as those within the many different cultures which have adopted Islam and which makes integration difficult, and even at times violent. He has equally been critical of European efforts with regard to integrating these foriegn nationals in their countries. Pipes outlines and exposes many Islamistist elements within general "Muslim society" and believes that the strain between follows of Islam, and the West require rational scrutiny.


===Obama's religion conspiracy===
This has lead to many controversal opinions on the topic of Muslims as expressed by Mr Pipes throughout his career which include:
On January 7, 2008, Pipes wrote an article for '']'' claiming that he had "confirmed" that President Obama "practiced Islam".<ref name="Pipes-Obama Practiced Islam">{{cite web |last1=Pipes |first1=Daniel |title=Confirmed: Barack Obama Practiced Islam |url=http://www.danielpipes.org/5354/confirmed-barack-obama-practiced-islam |website=Daniel Pipes |date=7 January 2008 |access-date=29 October 2020 |language=en}}</ref> ] responded by exposing Pipes reliance on "disputed ''Los Angeles Times'' article", whose key claims were debunked by ] in the '']'' on 25 March.<ref name="mediamatters-Pipes-Obama">{{cite web |title=Daniel Pipes relied on disputed ''Los Angeles Times'' article to revive Obama-Muslim falsehood |url=https://www.mediamatters.org/items/200801020004?f=h_latest |website=Media Matters for America |access-date=29 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080106111128/https://www.mediamatters.org/items/200801020004?f=h_latest |archive-date=6 January 2008}}</ref><ref name="chicagotribune-obama-islam">{{cite web |author1=Kim Barker |author-link1=Kim Barker |title=Archive - Chicago Tribune |url=https://chicagotribune.newspapers.com/search/legacy/#query=Kim+Barker&ymd=2007-03-25 |website=Chicago Tribune |access-date=29 October 2020 |language=en |date=25 March 2007 |archive-date=3 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201103201602/https://chicagotribune.newspapers.com/search/legacy/#query=Kim+Barker&ymd=2007-03-25 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ], in an article on '']'', criticized Pipes for what he said were ], stating that they amounted to a "template for a faux-legitimate assault on Obama's religion" and that Pipes' work "is pretty stunning in the twists of its logic".<ref>Ben Smith: ''The Politico'', December 30, 2007. Retrieved on December 26, 2008.</ref>


==Reception==
"There is no escaping the unfortunate fact that Muslim employees in law enforcement, the military, and the diplomatic corps need to be watched for connections to terrorism, as do Muslim chaplains in prisons and the armed forces. Muslim visitors and immigrants must undergo additional background checks. Mosques require a scrutiny beyond that applied to churches, synagogues, and temples. Muslim schools require increased oversight to ascertain what is being taught to children." --'']'', ] ] p.9
Pipes was included in the ] (SPLC) ''Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists'' that was removed from the SPLC website after ] filed a lawsuit.<ref>{{Cite web| title = Southern Poverty Law Center Deletes List of 'Anti-Muslim Extremists' After Legal Threat| work = CBN News| access-date = 2018-11-19| date = 2018-04-20| url = http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2018/april/southern-poverty-law-center-deletes-list-of-anti-muslim-extremists-after-legal-threat}}</ref> However, on the SPLC website he is still considered an "anti-Muslim mainstay figure" and "anti-Muslim activist" in many ''Hatewatch'' and ''Intelligence Report'' articles.<ref name="SPLC-Roundup-8/9/2018">{{cite web |title=Roundup of anti-Muslim events and activities 8/9/2018 |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/08/09/roundup-anti-muslim-events-and-activities-892018 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |access-date=29 October 2020 |language=en |date=9 August 2018}}</ref><ref name="SPLC-round-up: 6/22/18">{{cite web |title=Anti-Muslim round-up: 6/22/18 |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/06/22/anti-muslim-round-62218 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |access-date=29 October 2020 |language=en |date=22 June 2018}}</ref><ref name="SPLC-Anti-Muslim figure Pipes">{{cite web |title=Anti-Muslim figure Daniel Pipes advocates partnering with far-right political parties |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/04/18/anti-muslim-figure-daniel-pipes-advocates-partnering-far-right-political-parties |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |access-date=29 October 2020 |language=en |date=18 April 2018}}</ref><ref name="SPLC-Horowitz (Pipes)">{{cite web |title=David Horowitz |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/david-horowitz |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |access-date=29 October 2020 |language=en}}</ref>


Similarly, Bridge Initiative, hosted at ] and headed by ], analyses and refers to Pipes as an "anti-Muslim figure", describing his activities as "promoting anti-Muslim tropes" and Pipes as financier of "numerous activists and organizations that spread misinformation about Muslims and Islam".<ref name="Bridge Initiative-Pipes: Factsheet">{{cite web |title=Daniel Pipes: Factsheet: Islamophobia |url=https://bridge.georgetown.edu/research/factsheet-daniel-pipes/ |website=Bridge Initiative |access-date=29 October 2020 |date=14 August 2018}}</ref><ref name="Bridge Initiative-Factsheet">{{cite web |title=Clarion Project: Factsheet: Islam, Muslims, Islamophobia |url=https://bridge.georgetown.edu/research/factsheet-clarion-project/ |website=Bridge Initiative |access-date=29 October 2020 |language=en |date=3 April 2018}}</ref> Pipes has also been described as a part of the ] movement,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/files/192414854/Aked_Jones_Miller_Counterjihad_report_2019.pdf|last1=Aked|first1=H.|last2=Jones|first2=M.|last3=Miller|first3=D.|year=2019|title=Islamophobia in Europe: How governments are enabling the far-right 'counter-jihad' movement|series=Public Interest Investigations|publisher=University of Bristol|page=42|isbn=9780957027497|quote="Another key counter-jihad figure at the rally was American Daniel Pipes, who heads the Philadelphia-based Middle east Forum (MeF)"}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://bridge.georgetown.edu/research/factsheet-counter-jihad-movement/|title=Factsheet: Counter-jihad Movement|work=Bridge Initiative|publisher=Georgetown University|date=September 17, 2020}}</ref> though more moderate than others.<ref>{{cite report |last1=Meleagrou-Hitchens |first1=Alexander |last2=Brun |first2=Hans |year=2013 |title=A Neo-Nationalist Network: The English Defence League and Europe's Counter-Jihad Movement |url=https://icsr.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/ICSR-Report-A-Neo-Nationalist-Network-The-English-Defence-League-and-Europe%E2%80%99s-Counter-Jihad-Movement.pdf |publisher=The International Centre for the Study of Radicalism and Political Violence |page=57|quote="Daniel Pipes, an academic who is also considered by some to be part of the more moderate wing of the Counter-Jihad movement, has also criticised the rejection of the Islam/Islamism distinction, describing it as ‘an intellectual error’"}}</ref>
"Western European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and maintaining different standards of hygiene...All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most." ('']'', ] ])


], aformer editor of the ''Muslim World Today'' and the ''Pakistan Times'' (not the Pakistani newspaper of the same name), stated about Pipes: "He must be listened to. If there is no Daniel Pipes, there is no source for America to learn to recognize the evil which threatens it... Muslims in America that are like Samson; they have come into the temple to pull down the pillars, even if it means destroying themselves."<ref name=Tassel/> Similarly, ], a former visiting fellow at ], writes, "We Muslims need a thinker like Dr. Pipes, who can criticize the terrorist culture within Islam."<ref name=Tassel/>
On his website, Daniel Pipes notes that the above quote "has over the years attracted considerable attention. My goal in this article () was to characterize the thinking of Western Europeans, not give my own views. In retrospect, I should either have put the words "brown-skinned peoples" and "strange foods" in quotation marks or made it clearer that I was explaining European attitudes rather than my own. By way of example of those attitudes, here are some quotations from top French politicians from that era" Following this are quotes from ], ] and ].


In '']'', ] writer Kristine McNeil described Pipes in 2003 as an "] propagandist" who has built a career out of "distortions... twist words, quot people out of context and stretch the truth to suit his purpose".<ref name=McNeil/>
Of African-American Muslims, Pipes wrote: "...black converts tend to hold vehemently anti-American, anti-Christian, and anti-Semitic attitudes." (''Commentary'', ] ])


Zachary Lockman, Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and History, wrote in 2005 that Pipes "acquired a reputation in Muslim American circles as an 'Islamophobe' and 'Muslim basher' whose writings and public utterances aroused fear and suspicion toward Muslims". He stated that Pipes's remarks "could plausibly be understood as inciting suspicion and mistrust of Muslims, including Muslim Americans, and as derogatory of Islam".<ref name ="Lockman">{{cite journal |last1=Lockman |first1=Zachary |title=Critique from the Right: The Neo-conservative Assault on Middle East Studies |journal=CR: The New Centennial Review |date=2005 |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=63–110 |doi=10.1353/ncr.2005.0034|s2cid=145071422 }}</ref>
In an ] ] article in the '']'', Pipes claimed that "as the population of Muslims in the United States grows, so does antisemitism." ("The New Anti-Semitism," )


], a fellow supporter of the ] and critic of political Islam, also criticized Pipes, arguing that Pipes pursued an intolerant agenda, was someone who "confuses scholarship with propaganda", and "pursues petty vendettas with scant regard for objectivity".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2003/08/pipes_the_propagandist.html|title=Pipes the propagandist|first=Christopher|last=Hitchens| work=]|date=August 11, 2003|access-date=May 13, 2008}}</ref>
An article in the '']'' written by Sister Elaine Kelley, Chair of "Friends of Sabeel—North America" (a support group for the Palestinian Christian anti-Zionist group]), July 2001, claims that Pipes told an audience at ] that "Arab people live in some of the worse conditions in the world, without freedom to travel or modern media." He blamed those conditions on the Arabs’ "political obsession with Israel" (instead of their own societies); according to Kelley he added "The Palestinians are a miserable people, and they deserve to be" but Pipes denies ever saying this.


When Pipes was invited to speak at the ] in March 2005, a letter from professors and graduate students asserted that Pipes had a "long record of xenophobic, racist and sexist speech that goes back to 1990",<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/visit-by-pro-israeli-prof-causes-uproar-at-uoft/article18219241/|title=Visit by pro-Israeli prof causes uproar at UofT |work=] |first=Caroline |last= Alphonso |date=March 29, 2005}}</ref> but university officials said they would not interfere with Pipes's visit.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thevarsity.ca/articles/15401l |title=Open Letter |work=The Varsity}}{{dead link|date=April 2014}}</ref>
"The bombing on February 22 of the Askariya shrine in Samarra, Iraq, was a tragedy, but it was not an American or a coalition tragedy. ... hen Sunni terrorists target Shi'ites and vice versa, non-Muslims are less likely to be hurt. ... Civil war in Iraq, in short, would be a humanitarian tragedy but not a strategic one." ('']'', ] ] )


Professor ] of ] has called Pipes "a bright, well-trained expert with considerable experience", but accuses Pipes of "selectivity and distortion" when asserting that "10 to 15 percent of the world's Muslims are militants". In summation, Esposito complains that equation of "mainstream and extremist Islam under the rubric of militant Islam" while identifying "moderate Islam as secular or cultural" can mislead "uninformed or uncritical readers".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Militant Islam Reaches America (Daniel Pipes)|work=The American Muslim|date=October 17, 2002|author=]|url=http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/militant_islam_reaches_america_daniel_pipes/}}</ref>
On the current population trends of Muslims in Europe: "...the continent could be majority-Muslim within decades. When that happens, grand cathedrals will appear as vestiges of a prior civilization — at least until a Saudi style regime transforms them into mosques or a Taliban-like regime blows them up. The great national cultures — Italian, French, English, and others — will likely wither..." ('']'', ] ] )


==Awards and honors==
In a speech to the American Jewish Congress in October 2001, he said: "I worry very much, from the Jewish point of view, that the presence, and increased stature, and affluence, and enfranchisement of American Muslims, because they are so much led by an Islamist leadership, that this will present true dangers to American Jews."
* Pipes has received two ]s, from the ] (1988) and ] (2003).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.meforum.org/staff/Daniel+Pipes|title=Biography of Daniel Pipes|date=December 22, 2017|website=Middle East Forum}}</ref><ref> Yeshiva University May 12, 2003. Retrieved on December 26, 2008.</ref>
* In May 2006, Pipes received the ] by Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies at ] in Israel.<ref>Ruthie Blum: ''Jerusalem Post'' June 9, 2006. Retrieved on December 26, 2008.</ref>


===On Europe=== ==Select bibliography==
* ''Nothing Abides'' (2015) Daniel Pipes, New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers

* ''Miniatures: Views of Islamic and Middle Eastern Politics'' (2003), Transaction Publishers, {{ISBN|0-7658-0215-5}}
Pipes has been heavily critical of European welfare states, which he views as a consequence of America 'taking over' the defence of Europe during the ].
* '']'' (2002), W.W. Norton & Company; paperback (2003) {{ISBN|0-393-32531-8}}

* with Abdelnour, Z. (2000), ''Ending Syria's Occupation of Lebanon: The U.S. Role'' Middle East Forum, {{ISBN|0-9701484-0-2}}
==Books and policy papers==
* '']'' (2003), Transaction Publishers, ISBN 0-7658-0215-5 * ''The Long Shadow: Culture and Politics in the Middle East'' (1999), Transaction Publishers, {{ISBN|0-88738-220-7}}
* '']'' (2002), W.W. Norton & Company; paperback (2003) ISBN 0-393-32531-8 * '']'' (1997), Palgrave Macmillan; paperback (1998) {{ISBN|0-312-17688-0}}
* '']'' (1997), Touchstone; paperback (1999) {{ISBN|0-684-87111-4}}
* with Abdelnour, Z. (2000), ''Ending Syria's Occupation of Lebanon: The U.S. Role'' Middle East Forum, ISBN 0-9701484-0-2
* '']'' (2002), Transaction Publishers, ISBN 0-7658-0981-8 * ''Syria Beyond the Peace Process (Policy Papers, No. 41)'' (1995), Washington Institute for Near East Policy, {{ISBN|0-944029-64-7}}
* ''Sandstorm'' (1993), Rowman & Littlefield, paperback (1993) {{ISBN|0-8191-8894-8}}
* ''Muslim immigrants in the United States (Backgrounder)'' (2002), Center for Immigration Studies
* ''The Long Shadow : Culture and Politics in the Middle East'' (1999), Transaction Publishers, ISBN 0-88738-220-7 * ''Damascus Courts the West: Syrian Politics, 1989–1991 (Policy Papers, No. 26)'' (1991), Washington Institute for Near East Policy, {{ISBN|0-944029-13-2}}
* ''The Hidden Hand : Middle East Fears of Conspiracy'' (1997), Palgrave Macmillan; paperback (1998) ISBN 0-312-17688-0 * with Garfinkle, A. (1991), ''Friendly Tyrants: An American Dilemma'' Palgrave Macmillan, {{ISBN|0-312-04535-2}}
* ''Conspiracy : How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From'' (1997), Touchstone; paperback (1999) ISBN 0-684-87111-4 * '']'' (1990), Transaction Publishers, paperback (2003) {{ISBN|0-7658-0996-6}}
* ''Syria Beyond the Peace Process (Policy Papers, No. 41)'' (1995), Washington Institute for Near East Policy, ISBN 0-944029-64-7 * ''Greater Syria: The History of an Ambition'' (1990), Oxford University Press, {{ISBN|0-19-506021-0}}
* ''In the Path of God: Islam and Political Power'' (1983), Transaction Publishers, {{ISBN|0-7658-0981-8}}
* ''Sandstorm'' (1993), Rowman & Littlefield, paperback (1993) ISBN 0-8191-8894-8
* (1983), Foreign Service Institute
* ''Damascus Courts the West: Syrian Politics, 1989-1991 (Policy Papers, No. 26)'' (1991), Washington Institute for Near East Policy, ISBN 0-944029-13-2
* ''Slave Soldiers and Islam: The Genesis of a Military System'' (1981), Yale University Press, {{ISBN|0-300-02447-9}}
* with Garfinkle, A. (1991), ''Friendly Tyrants: An American Dilemma'' Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 0-312-04535-2
* ''From a distance: Influencing foreign policy from Philadelphia (The Heritage lectures)'' (1991), Heritage Foundation, ASIN B0006DGHE4
* ''The Rushdie Affair: The Novel, the Ayatollah, and the West'' (1990), Transaction Publishers, paperback (2003) ISBN 0-7658-0996-6
* ''Greater Syria: The History of an Ambition'' (1990), Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-506021-0
* ''An Arabist's guide to Colloquial Egyptian'' (1983), Foreign Service Institute
* ''Slave Soldiers and Islam: The Genesis of a Military System'' (1981), Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-02447-9

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* Pipes, R. ''Memoirs of a Non-Belonger''. Yale University Press, 2003.
* Press, Eyal. , ''The Nation'', May 10, 2004.
* Rooij de, Paul. "", ''CounterPunch'', September 24, 2002.
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American Middle East commentator (born 1949)

Daniel Pipes
Pipes in June 2008Pipes in June 2008
Born (1949-09-09) September 9, 1949 (age 75)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
OccupationDistinguished Visiting Professor at Pepperdine University's School of Public Policy (Spring '07); President of Middle East Forum; Expert at Wikistrat
Alma materHarvard University (AB, PhD)
SubjectMiddle East, American foreign policy, Islamic terrorism, Islamism
RelativesRichard Pipes (father)
Website
www.danielpipes.org

Daniel Pipes (born September 9, 1949) is an American former professor and commentator on foreign policy and the Middle East. He is the president of the Middle East Forum, and publisher of its Middle East Quarterly journal. His writing focuses on American foreign policy and the Middle East as well as criticism of Islamism.

After graduating with a doctorate from Harvard in 1978 and studying abroad, Pipes taught at universities including Harvard, Chicago, Pepperdine, and the U.S. Naval War College on a short-term basis but never held a permanent academic position. He then served as director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, before founding the Middle East Forum. He served as an adviser to Rudy Giuliani's 2008 presidential campaign.

Pipes is a critic of Islam, and his views have been criticized by Muslim Americans and other academics, many of whom maintain they are Islamophobic or racist. Pipes has made claims about alleged "no-go zones" overrun by Sharia law in Europe and about U.S. President Barack Obama practicing Islam, and has defended Michelle Malkin's book In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror.

Pipes has written sixteen books and was the Taube Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

Early life and education

The son of Irene (née Roth) and Richard Pipes, Daniel Pipes was born into a Jewish family in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1949. His parents had each fled German-occupied Poland with their families, and they met in the United States. His father, Richard Pipes, was a historian at Harvard University, specializing in Russia, and Daniel Pipes grew up primarily in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area.

Pipes attended the Harvard pre-school, then received a private school education, partly abroad. He enrolled in Harvard University, where his father was a professor, in the fall of 1967. For his first two years he studied mathematics but said he "found the material too abstract". After visiting the Sahara Desert in 1968, the Sinai Desert in 1969, and travels in West Africa, he changed his major to Middle Eastern history. He obtained a A.B. in history in 1971. His senior thesis was a study of Al-Ghazali and other Muslim philosophers. After graduating in 1971, Pipes spent two years in Cairo, then earned a PhD in 1978, also from Harvard. He wrote a book on colloquial Egyptian Arabic, published in 1983.

Career

Work in academia

Pipes returned to Harvard in 1973 and, after further studies abroad (in Freiburg-im-Breisgau and Cairo), obtained a Ph.D. in medieval Islamic history in 1978. His doctoral dissertation eventually became his first book, Slave Soldiers and Islam, in 1981. He switched his academic interest from medieval Islamic studies to modern Islam in the late 1970s, with the rise of Ayatollah Khomeini and the Iranian revolution.

He taught world history at the University of Chicago from 1978 to 1982, history at Harvard from 1983 to 1984, and policy and strategy at the Naval War College from 1984 to 1986. In 1982–83, Pipes served on the policy-planning staff at the State Department in 1982–83.

Post-academia

Pipes largely left academia after 1986, although he taught a course titled "International Relations: Islam and Politics" as a visiting professor at Pepperdine University's School of Public Policy in 2007. Pipes told an interviewer from Harvard Magazine that he has "the simple politics of a truck driver, not the complex ones of an academic. My viewpoint is not congenial with institutions of higher learning."

From 1986 on, Pipes worked for think tanks. From 1986 to 1993, he was director of the Philadelphia-based Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) and editor of its journal, Orbis. In 1990, he organized the Middle East Forum as a unit of FPRI; it became an independent organization with himself as head in January 1994. Pipes edited its journal, the Middle East Quarterly, until 2001. He established Campus Watch as a project of the Middle East Forum in 2002, followed by the Legal Project in 2005, Islamist Watch in 2006, and the Washington Project in 2009.

In 2003, President George W. Bush nominated Pipes for the board of the United States Institute of Peace. A filibuster was launched by Democratic Senators in the United States Senate against Pipes' nomination. Senator Tom Harkin said that he was "offended" by Pipes' comments on Islam, and that while "some people call a scholar... this is not the kind of person you want on the USIP." While defending Pipes' nomination, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer distanced Bush from Pipes's views, saying that Bush "disagrees with Pipes about whether Islam is a peaceful religion". Pipes obtained the position by recess appointment and served on the board until early 2005. His nomination was protested by Muslim groups in the U.S., and Democratic leaders. The Los Angeles Times wrote that "in trying to prevent Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes from joining the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace, Sens. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) and Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) are abusing their privilege."

Campus Watch

Main article: Campus Watch

Pipes' think tank the Middle East Forum established a website in 2002 called Campus Watch, which identified what it saw as five problems in the teaching of Middle Eastern studies at American universities: "analytical failures, the mixing of politics with scholarship, intolerance of alternative views, apologetics, and the abuse of power over students." According to The New York Times, Campus Watch is the project for which Pipes is "perhaps best known."

Through Campus Watch, Pipes encouraged students and faculty to submit information on "Middle East-related scholarship, lectures, classes, demonstrations, and other activities relevant to Campus Watch". The project was accused of "McCarthyesque intimidation" of professors who criticized Israel when it published "dossiers" on eight professors it thought "hostile" to America. In protest, more than a hundred academics demanded to be added to what some called a "blacklist". In October 2002 Campus Watch removed the dossiers from its website.

Views

Radical and moderate Islam

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Pipes has long expressed alarm about what he believes to be the dangers of "radical" or "militant Islam" to the Western world. In 1985, he wrote in Middle East Insight that "he scope of the radical fundamentalist's ambition poses novel problems; and the intensity of his onslaught against the United States makes solutions urgent." In the fall 1995 issue of National Interest, he wrote: "Unnoticed by most Westerners, war has been unilaterally declared on Europe and the United States."

He wrote this in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing; investigative journalist Steven Emerson had said in the aftermath of the bombing that it bore a "Middle Eastern trait." Pipes agreed with Emerson and told USA Today that the United States was "under attack" and that Islamic fundamentalists "are targeting us." Shortly after this, the bombing was determined by police to have been carried out by American anti-government terrorists Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols, and Michael Fortier.

Pipes wrote in 2007, "It's a mistake to blame Islam, a religion 14 centuries old, for the evil that should be ascribed to militant Islam, a totalitarian ideology less than a century old. Militant Islam is the problem, but moderate Islam is the solution." Pipes described moderate Muslims as "a very small movement" in comparison to "the Islamist onslaught" and said that the U.S. government "should give priority to locating, meeting with, funding, forwarding, empowering, and celebrating" them.

Pipes has praised Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Turkey and the Sudanese thinker Mahmoud Mohamed Taha. In a September 2008 interview by Peter Robinson, Pipes stated that Muslims can be divided into three categories: "traditional Islam", which he sees as pragmatic and non-violent, "Islamism", which he sees as dangerous and militant, and "moderate Islam", which he sees as underground and not yet codified into a popular movement. He elaborated that he did not have the "theological background" to determine what group follows the Koran the closest and is truest to its intent.

Muslims in Europe

In 1990, Pipes wrote in National Review that Western European societies were "unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and maintaining different standards of hygiene ... Muslim immigrants bring with them a chauvinism that augurs badly for their integration into the mainstream of the European societies." At that time, he believed Muslim immigrants would "probably not change the face of European life" and might "even bring much of value, including new energy, to their host societies". New York University academic Arun Kundnani cited the article as "Islamophobic". Pipes later said "my goal in it was to characterize the thinking of Western Europeans, not give my own views. In retrospect, I should either have put the words 'brown-skinned peoples' and 'strange foods' in quotation marks or made it clearer that I was explaining European attitudes rather than my own."

In 2006, Daniel Pipes said that certain neighborhoods in France were "no-go zones" and "that the French state no longer has full control over its territory." In 2013, Pipes traveled to several of these neighborhoods and admitted he was mistaken. In 2015 he sent an email to Bloomberg saying that there are "no European countries with no-go zones."

In response to the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, Pipes wrote that the "key issue at stake" was whether the "West stand up for its customs and mores, including freedom of speech" and the "right to insult and blasphemy". He supported Robert Spencer's call to "stand resolutely with Denmark." He lauded Norway, Germany and France for their stance on the cartoons and freedom of speech, but criticized Poland, Britain, New Zealand and the United States for giving statements he interpreted as "wrongly apologizing."

Through his Middle East Forum, Pipes fund-raised for the Dutch politician Geert Wilders during his trial, according to NRC Handelsblad. Pipes has praised Wilders as "the unrivaled leader of those Europeans who wish to retain their historic identity" and called him "the most important politician in Europe." At the same time, he found Wilders' political program "bizarre" and not to be taken too seriously while criticizing Wilders' understanding of Islam as "superficial" for being against all of Islam and not just its extreme variant.

Muslims in the United States

In October 2001, Pipes said before a convention of the American Jewish Congress: "I worry very much, from the Jewish point of view, that the presence, and increased stature, and affluence, and enfranchisement of American Muslims, because they are so much led by an Islamist leadership, that this will present true dangers to American Jews."

The New York Times reported that American Muslims were "enraged" by Pipes' arguments that Muslims in government and military positions be given special attention as security risks and his opining that mosques are "breeding grounds for militants." In a 2004 article in The New York Sun, Pipes endorsed a defense of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, and linked the Japanese-American wartime situation to that of Muslim Americans today.

Pipes has criticized the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which he says is an "apologist" for Hezbollah and Hamas, and has a "roster of employees and board members connected to terrorism". CAIR, in turn, has said that "Pipes' writings are full of distortions and innuendo."

The New York Times cited Pipes as helping to lead the charge against Debbie Almontaser, a woman with a "longstanding reputation as a Muslim moderate" whom Pipes viewed as a representative of a pernicious new movement of "lawful Islamists." Almontaser resigned under pressure as principal of Khalil Gibran International Academy, an Arabic-language high school in New York City named after the Christian Arab-American poet. Pipes initially described the school as a "madrassa", which means school in Arabic but, in the West, carries the implication of Islamist teaching, though he later admitted that his use of the term had been "a bit of a stretch". Pipes explained his opposition: "It is hard to see how violence, how terrorism will lead to the implementation of sharia. It is much easier to see how, working through the system—the school system, the media, the religious organizations, the government, businesses and the like—you can promote radical Islam." Pipes had also stated that "Arabic-language instruction is inevitably laden with Pan-Arabist and Islamist baggage."

Views on American foreign policy

Pipes was a firm supporter of the Vietnam War, and when his fellow students occupied the Harvard administration building to protest it in the 1960s, he sided with the administration. Pipes had previously considered himself to be a Democrat, but after anti-war George McGovern gained the 1972 Democratic nomination for President, he switched to the Republican Party. Pipes used to accept being described as a "neoconservative", once saying that "others see me that way, and, you know, maybe I am one of them." However, he explicitly rejected the label in April 2009 due to differences with the neoconservative positions on democracy and Iraq, now considering himself a "plain conservative".

Donald Trump and the Republican Party

In 2016, Pipes resigned from the Republican Party after it endorsed Donald Trump as its 2016 presidential candidate. Yet he announced in a Boston Globe article of October 20, 2020, that he was voting for Trump in that year's presidential election, on the grounds that, "Rather than the person, I advise a focus on a party’s overall outlook... I urge fellow voters to dwell on the strikingly different platforms of the two major parties...and support whichever one better suits their own views; and to do so regardless of the candidates' many failings."

Arab–Israeli conflict

Pipes supports Israel in the Arab–Israeli conflict and is an opponent of a Palestinian state. He wrote in Commentary in April 1990 that "there can be either an Israel or a Palestine, but not both ... to those who ask why the Palestinians must be deprived of a state, the answer is simple: grant them one and you set in motion a chain of events that will lead either to its extinction or the extinction of Israel." Pipes has proposed a three-state solution to the conflict, in which Gaza would be given to Egypt and the West Bank to Jordan.

In September 2008, he said, "Palestinians do not accept the existence of a Jewish state. Until that change, I don't see any point in having any kind of negotiations whatsoever." He also described the Israeli public as focused on a mistaken policy that he considers to be "appeasement".

Pipes supported Israel in the 2014 Gaza War stating "the civilized and moral forces of Israel came off well in this face-off with barbarism". He has also defended the controversial Canary Mission, stating "collecting information on students has particular value because it signals them that attacking Israel is serious business, not some inconsequential game, and that their actions can damage both Israel and their future careers".

Iran

Pipes' opposition to Iran is long-standing. In 1980, Pipes wrote that "Iran made the transition to a post-oil economy. It is the only major oil exporter to abandon the heady billions and return to live by its own means." Pipes was critical of the Reagan administration for its role in the Iran–Contra affair, writing that "American actions also helped to legitimize other kinds of help for, and capitulation to, the Ayatollah."

In 2010, Pipes advocated that U.S. President Barack Obama "give orders for the U.S. military to destroy Iran's nuclear-weapon capacity. ... The time to act is now." He argued that "circumstances are propitious" for the U.S. to initiate a bombing of Iran, and that "no one other than the Iranian rulers and their agents denies that the regime is rushing headlong to build a large nuclear arsenal." He further stated that a unilateral U.S. bombing of Iran "would require few 'boots on the ground' and entail relatively few casualties, making an attack more politically palatable."

Pipes advocates that the U.S. support the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) against the Iranian government. Previously listed as a terrorist group by the U.S. and the European Union, Pipes had long advocated a change in that listing. Pipes had described this listing as a "sop to the mullahs". He writes, "the MEK poses no danger to Americans or Europeans, and has not for decades. It does pose a danger to the malign, bellicose theocratic regime in Tehran."

Obama's religion conspiracy

On January 7, 2008, Pipes wrote an article for FrontPage Magazine claiming that he had "confirmed" that President Obama "practiced Islam". Media Matters for America responded by exposing Pipes reliance on "disputed Los Angeles Times article", whose key claims were debunked by Kim Barker in the Chicago Tribune on 25 March. Ben Smith, in an article on Politico, criticized Pipes for what he said were false or misleading statements about Barack Obama's religion, stating that they amounted to a "template for a faux-legitimate assault on Obama's religion" and that Pipes' work "is pretty stunning in the twists of its logic".

Reception

Pipes was included in the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists that was removed from the SPLC website after Maajid Nawaz filed a lawsuit. However, on the SPLC website he is still considered an "anti-Muslim mainstay figure" and "anti-Muslim activist" in many Hatewatch and Intelligence Report articles.

Similarly, Bridge Initiative, hosted at Georgetown University and headed by John L. Esposito, analyses and refers to Pipes as an "anti-Muslim figure", describing his activities as "promoting anti-Muslim tropes" and Pipes as financier of "numerous activists and organizations that spread misinformation about Muslims and Islam". Pipes has also been described as a part of the counter-jihad movement, though more moderate than others.

Tashbih Sayyed, aformer editor of the Muslim World Today and the Pakistan Times (not the Pakistani newspaper of the same name), stated about Pipes: "He must be listened to. If there is no Daniel Pipes, there is no source for America to learn to recognize the evil which threatens it... Muslims in America that are like Samson; they have come into the temple to pull down the pillars, even if it means destroying themselves." Similarly, Ahmed Subhy Mansour, a former visiting fellow at Harvard Law School, writes, "We Muslims need a thinker like Dr. Pipes, who can criticize the terrorist culture within Islam."

In The Nation, Brooklyn writer Kristine McNeil described Pipes in 2003 as an "anti-Arab propagandist" who has built a career out of "distortions... twist words, quot people out of context and stretch the truth to suit his purpose".

Zachary Lockman, Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and History, wrote in 2005 that Pipes "acquired a reputation in Muslim American circles as an 'Islamophobe' and 'Muslim basher' whose writings and public utterances aroused fear and suspicion toward Muslims". He stated that Pipes's remarks "could plausibly be understood as inciting suspicion and mistrust of Muslims, including Muslim Americans, and as derogatory of Islam".

Christopher Hitchens, a fellow supporter of the Iraq War and critic of political Islam, also criticized Pipes, arguing that Pipes pursued an intolerant agenda, was someone who "confuses scholarship with propaganda", and "pursues petty vendettas with scant regard for objectivity".

When Pipes was invited to speak at the University of Toronto in March 2005, a letter from professors and graduate students asserted that Pipes had a "long record of xenophobic, racist and sexist speech that goes back to 1990", but university officials said they would not interfere with Pipes's visit.

Professor John L. Esposito of Georgetown University has called Pipes "a bright, well-trained expert with considerable experience", but accuses Pipes of "selectivity and distortion" when asserting that "10 to 15 percent of the world's Muslims are militants". In summation, Esposito complains that equation of "mainstream and extremist Islam under the rubric of militant Islam" while identifying "moderate Islam as secular or cultural" can mislead "uninformed or uncritical readers".

Awards and honors

Select bibliography

See also

References

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  2. ^ Lockman, Zachary (2005). "Critique from the Right: The Neo-conservative Assault on Middle East Studies". CR: The New Centennial Review. 5 (1): 63–110. doi:10.1353/ncr.2005.0034. S2CID 145071422.
  3. Wulfhorst, Ellen (November 19, 2007). "Giuliani style evokes concern among critics". Reuters. Retrieved July 22, 2009.
  4. Beutel, Alejandro (April 18, 2018). "Anti-Muslim figure Daniel Pipes advocates partnering with far-right political parties". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved February 24, 2022.
  5. Daniel Pipes Archived 2014-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, Fellows, Hoover Institution website. Accessed July 24, 2011.
  6. ^ Press, Eyal (May 2004). "Neocon man: Daniel Pipes has made his name inveighing against an academy overrun by political extremists". The Nation. Archived from the original on November 13, 2007. Retrieved August 17, 2007.
  7. Richard Pipes. Vixi: memoirs of a non-belonger. 2006, page 2; page 50
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  9. ^ Tassel, Janet (January–February 2005). "Militant about "Islamism"". Harvard Magazine. Retrieved May 26, 2016.
  10. Pipes, Daniel (1983). An Arabist's Guide to Egyptian Colloquial (PDF). Washington, D.C.: Foreign Service Institute. LCCN 83081668.
  11. Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite, Kaplan, Robert D., p. 287, Simon and Schuster, 1995
  12. "School of Public Policy Announces 2007 Distinguished Visiting Professor: Daniel Pipes". Pepperdine University. Archived from the original on December 8, 2007. Retrieved May 13, 2008.
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