A very interesting report on the funding of the anti-Muslim movement. It is unfortunate that despite a few citations there is scant mention of our taking the haters on day in and day out for over two years.
REPORT: $42 Million From Seven Foundations Helped Fuel The Rise Of Islamophobia In America
By Faiz Shakir on Aug 26, 2011 at 9:30 am
Following a six-month long investigative research project, the Center for American Progress released a 130-page report today which reveals that more than $42 million from seven foundations over the past decade have helped fan the flames of anti-Muslim hate in America. The authors — Wajahat Ali, Eli Clifton, Matt Duss, Lee Fang, Scott Keyes, and myself — worked to expose the Islamophobia network in depth, name the major players, connect the dots, and trace the genesis of anti-Muslim propaganda.
The report, titled “Fear Inc.: The Roots Of the Islamophobia Network In America,” lifts the veil behind the hate, follows the money, and identifies the names of foundations who have given money, how much they have given, and who they have given to:
The money has flowed into the hands of five key “experts” and “scholars” who comprise the central nervous system of anti-Muslim propaganda:
FRANK GAFFNEY, Center for Security Policy – “A mosque that is used to promote a seditious program, which is what Sharia is…that is not a protected religious practice, that is in fact sedition.” [Source]
DAVID YERUSHALMI, Society of Americans for National Existence: “Muslim civilization is at war with Judeo-Christian civilization…the Muslim peoples, those committed to Islam as we know it today, are our enemies.” [Source]
DANIEL PIPES, Middle East Forum: “All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most.” [Source]
ROBERT SPENCER, Jihad Watch: “Of course, as I have pointed out many times, traditional Islam itself is not moderate or peaceful. It is the only major world religion with a developed doctrine and tradition of warfare against unbelievers.” [Source]
STEVEN EMERSON, Investigative Project on Terrorism: “One of the world’s great religions — which has more than 1.4 billion adherents — somehow sanctions genocide, planned genocide, as part of its religious doctrine.” [Source]
These five “scholars” are assisted in their outreach efforts by Brigitte Gabriel (founder, ACT! for America), Pamela Geller (co-founder, Stop Islamization of America), and David Horowitz (supporter of Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch). As the report details, information is then disseminated through conservative organizations like the Eagle Forum, the religious right, Fox News, and politicians such as Allen West and Newt Gingrich.
Over the past few years, the Islamophobia network (the funders, scholars, grassroots activists, media amplifiers, and political validators) have worked hard to push narratives that Obama might be a Muslim, that mosques are incubators of radicalization, and that “radical Islam” has infiltrated all aspects of American society — including the conservative movement.
To explain how the Islamophobia network operates, we’ve produced this video to show just one example of how they have mainstreamed the baseless and unfounded fear that Sharia may soon replace American laws:
*We published this piece earlier but took it down for technical reasons.
August 26th, 2011 at 2:34 pm
Them against Allah, no chance as Truth will prevail Inshallah.
August 26th, 2011 at 2:39 pm
Good work
August 26th, 2011 at 2:42 pm
in the video scroll to 1:45, you see here tarek fatah, gafney et spencer.
August 26th, 2011 at 3:09 pm
I believe, this verse is most appropriate.
“Lo! those who disbelieve spend their wealth in order that they may debar (men) from the way of Allah. They will spend it, then it will become an anguish for them, then they will be conquered. And those who disbelieve will be gathered unto hell” [Quran 8:36]
So much truth, Islam still the fastest growing religion
August 26th, 2011 at 3:38 pm
I know this is off topic but I want to tell everyone who has a conscience to please sign the petition.
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August 26th, 2011 at 3:51 pm
Garibaldi, thank you for your contribution to this report. We owe you and your colleauges who worked on this report, a debt of gratitude.
Please pass it on to senators, and President Obama. If he is serious about the US mending relations with the Muslim world, this should waken him to those who are working to undermine that.
These people do not want that. Remember Pamela Geller put on her hate list (as published at Loon Watch) the organisation that is promoting harmony between US Christians and the Muslim world.
Remember too, what binds them together (Zionism)
August 26th, 2011 at 4:12 pm
The Exclusive Revolution: Israeli Social Justice and the Separation Principle
by Max Blumenthal On 08.26.11, By Max
Those who dedicated themselves to the formation of the Jewish State may have formulated their national identity through an idealized vision of European enlightenedness, but they also recognized that their lofty aims would not be realized without brute force. As Katznelson said, “It is not by chance that I speak of settlement in military terms.” Thus the Zionist socialists gradually embraced the ideas of radical right-wing ideologue Vladimir Jabotinsky, who outlined a practical strategy in his 1922 essay, “The Iron Wall,” for fulfilling their utopian ambitions. “Zionist colonization, even the most restricted, must either be terminated or carried out in defiance of the will of the native population,” Jabotinsky wrote. “This colonization can, therefore, continue and develop only under the protection of a force independent of the local population — an iron wall which the native population cannot break through. This is, in toto, our policy towards the Arabs.”
According to Jabotinsky, residents of the Zionist yishuv (community) could not hope to enjoy a European standard of life in the heart of the Arab world without physically separating themselves from the natives. This would require tireless planning, immense sacrifice and no shortage of bloodshed. And all who comprised the Zionist movement, whether left, right, or center, would carry the plan towards fulfillment. As Jabotinsky wrote, “All of us, without exception, are constantly demanding that this power strictly fulfill its obligations. In this sense, there are no meaningful differences between our ‘militarists’ and our ‘vegetarians.’”
One of the greatest misperceptions of Israeli politics is that the right-wing politicians who claim Jabotinsky’s writings as their lodestar perpetuate the most egregious violence against the Palestinians. While brimming with anti-Arab resentment, the Israeli right’s real legacy consists mostly of producing durable strategies and demagogic rhetoric.
read more here
http://maxblumenthal.com/2011/08/the-exclusive-revolution-israeli-social-justice-and-the-separation-principle/
August 26th, 2011 at 4:17 pm
An irate David Whorowitz responded calling the report “fascistic.”
The loon in fact made a recent comment on this thread about his aforementioned response, trying to cover up his arse after claiming that Arabs have contributed nothing to the world “except terror.”
August 26th, 2011 at 4:30 pm
Spencer was whining about this report at Jihad Watch, here is crying about how CAIR raised more in Ramadan than he ever received…..LOL
jihadwatch.org/2011/08/the-islamic-supremacist-propaganda-machine-cranks-out-another-islamophobia-report.html
When examined closely, the sums involved are actually far lower than those regularly received by Leftist and Islamic supremacist groups such as the ones that have produced the recent “Islamophobia” reports. Hamas-linked CAIR just announced today that it had almost reached its goal of raising $650,000 during Ramadan. I have never received that kind of support for Jihad Watch during any comparable period of time.
August 26th, 2011 at 4:31 pm
NassirH, thanks for that.
August 26th, 2011 at 5:04 pm
“Hamas-linked CAIR just announced today that it had almost reached its goal of raising $650,000 during Ramadan. I have never received that kind of support for Jihad Watch during any comparable period of time.”
Whiny Spencer gets plenty of support, including a 6-figure salary and big bucks from Horowitz’s “Freedom Center.”
“Freedom Center has steered nearly $1 million over the past three years to Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch …”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/41767.html#ixzz1WB9gv7ls
Hamas-linked CAIR? They consider everyone “Hamas-linked,” including grandmothers on the Gaza Flotilla.
August 26th, 2011 at 5:24 pm
So would that make the people who wrote this “report” part of the Judeophobic and Christianophobic network? What’s wrong with being against a set of “laws” that advocates stoning rape victims and killing gays? I thought liberals were for women’s rights and gay rights.
August 26th, 2011 at 5:29 pm
Rocky Lore, you prove the stupidity and the low IQ of the Islamophobic crowd. Stupid illiterate ignorant, stoning for rape isn’t in the Quran.
I mean how can you be Judeophobic and Christianphobic when their scriptures have a set of laws that had stoning as a punishment long before the Quran appeared, and death to guys?
That is why you Islamphobes have zero credence. Stupid and thick beyone belief.
August 26th, 2011 at 5:58 pm
New Report Identifies Organisational Nexus of Islamophobia.
Saturday, 27 August 2011 Jim Lobe
The 130-page report, ‘Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America’, identifies seven foundations that have quietly provided a total of more than 42 million dollars to key individuals and organisations that have spearheaded the nation-wide effort between 2001 and 2009.
They include funders that have long been associated with the extreme right in the U.S., as well as several Jewish family foundations that have supported right-wing and settler groups in Israel.
The network also includes what the report calls “misinformation experts” – including Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy (CSP), Daniel Pipes of the Philadelphia-based Middle East Forum (MEF),
Steven Emerson of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, David Yerushalmi of the Society of Americans for National Existence, and Robert Spencer of Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) – who are often
tapped by television news networks and right-wing radio talk shows to comment on Islam and the threat it allegedly poses to U.S. national security.
read more here
http://www.international.to/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2135:new-report-identifies-organisational-nexus-of-islamophobia&catid=80:politics&Itemid=120
August 26th, 2011 at 6:32 pm
Here is another example, below is Andrew Bostom, a Jewish Zionist Israeli American, promoting Bat Ye’or’s (a major influence on Anders Brivek) book, another Jewish Zionist in Europe, pretending she is a scholar of Islam, when in reality she is a rabid loon. Both are on Loon Watch’s roll call of Islamophobes. Both have received flak from the academia for their fraudaulent claims.
Note how Bostom pretends he is for the welfare of the USA, when that is far from the case.
Look at the lies he propogates through Family Security Matters, an Islamphobic website that pretends to be working for the security of the USA
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August 17, 2011
Bat Ye’or: “The Universal Caliphate Stands Before Us”
Andrew Bostom
Now, a mere six years later, in her newly released “Europe, Globalization, and the Coming Universal Caliphate,” Bat Ye’or updates her analysis to demonstrate how Western Europe’s ongoing, morally grotesque Eurabian metamorphosis is actively advancing—via the United Nations, in particular—Islam’s eternal quest for earthly domination under the Sharia, i.e., a global Caliphate.
Bat Ye’or’s sobering conclusions from this indispensable new work (pp. 183-185) are reproduced below:
read more here
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10179/pub_detail.asp
August 26th, 2011 at 7:59 pm
@Rocky Lore
I wouldn’t consider Time Magazine Pro-Muslim, but look what they had to say:
“For his day, the Prophet Muhammad was a feminist…”
“In local pagan society, it was the custom to bury alive unwanted female newborns; Islam prohibited the practice. Women had been treated as possessions of their husbands; Islamic law made the education of girls a sacred duty and gave women the right to own and inherit property. Muhammad even decreed that sexual satisfaction was a woman’s entitlement. He was a liberal at home as well as in the pulpit. The Prophet darned his own garments and among his wives and concubines had a trader, a warrior, a leatherworker and an imam.”
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,185647,00.html
Some Muslim-majority countries do not have a good track record for women’s rights, but this is not unique to Islam. Consider the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as just one example of a Christian-majority country that also has an atrocious record on women’s rights.
The problem is not with legitimate criticism, but with cherry picking facts and reporting them out of context. Muslim countries have elected female presidents/prim ministers, while the US has not. Does someone like Daniel Pipes commend them for that? Of course not..this is ignored.
August 26th, 2011 at 8:05 pm
@Rocky Lore
Another link you might find interesting:
http://www.lesbilicious.co.uk/campaigns-politics/poll-reveals-muslim-support-for-gay-rights/
The picture is not so black and white as the hate mongers would have us think.
August 26th, 2011 at 8:07 pm
@Rocky Lore
“So would that make the people who wrote this “report” part of the Judeophobic and Christianophobic network?”
And who is that? Name someone… Not me, I’m a practicing Catholic. I know many Leftists that are Christians — and they are better Christians than those who claim to be “conservative,” you know, stave the poor to feed the rich.
“What’s wrong with being against a set of “laws” that advocates stoning rape victims and killing gays?”
There’s nothing wrong with being against such set of laws. We should be outraged at stoning rape victims and killing Gays – but where is this happening? It’s not happening anyplace in the Western world. The majority of Western nations, including the US have firmly established legal frameworks that would prevent such laws.
The sharia law scare is just another means and method to push Islamophobia and attempt to undermine religious freedom of American Muslims.
If persecution is happening someplace, anyplace, we have NGOs, like Human Rights Watch. We also have “Christians” in Uganda that are persecuting and killing Gays.
“I thought liberals were for women’s rights and gay rights.”
Well, it cannot be argued that criminalizing the wearing of Islamic clothing is “women’s rights.” This is utterly outrageous that women in places like France should have their religious freedom and freedom of expression taken to “protect their rights.” And – these bans on Islamic clothing are often based on Islamophobic stereotypes of relationships between men and women.
I’ve read this report and we have known all along that some wealthy people are funding Islamophobia in the Western world. I think that one of the reasons is some radical means to provide security for Israel, which is being run by that cabal of international loons known as the Lukid Party.
August 26th, 2011 at 8:31 pm
They are short-sighted extremists who may ultimately hurt Jews and Israel. From the Jewish Daily forward:
“…Almost no mainstream pundits sympathize with the Palestinian position at all. Of course, to point this out — while at the same time noticing that a great many pundits in the media happen to be Jewish and darn few are Muslim — is to invite charges of anti-Semitism and/or Jewish self-hatred. If you ask me, allowing the haters to rant and rave as they do without allowing any dissident voices into our debate does far more damage to both the cause of Israel and the honor of American Jews.”
Read more: http://forward.com/articles/141824/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=The%2520Forward%2520Today%2520%2528Monday-Friday%2529&utm_campaign=Newsletter%2520Template#ixzz1WBzunuU8
August 26th, 2011 at 8:32 pm
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/08/on-the-road-victory-from-allah-and-invasion-soon-.html#comments
Pam Ghouler from asshat shrugs has posted someones license plate and is spreading libel about the, surely by posting this the Muslims lady’s life could be in danger?
This is crazy hate speech but picking on this poor lady is downright wrong and dangerous. This lady needs to know that her license plate is being published on the same hate blog that helped influence Breivik’s Norway massacres.
August 26th, 2011 at 9:06 pm
@eslaporte
“Firefox can’t find the server at http://www.yellow.stars.com.”
I keep thinking I’d like to see your website, but when I click your name, I always get the above message. Is your site/blog down?
August 27th, 2011 at 1:12 am
Fear, Incorporated: Who’s paying for all that Islamophobic paranoia?
Posted By Stephen M. Walt Friday, August 26, 2011
The irony in all this that the extremists examined in this report have gone to great lengths to convince Americans that there is a vast Islamic conspiracy to subvert American democracy, impose sharia law, and destroy the American way of life. Instead, what we are really facing is a well-funded right-wing collaboration to scare the American people with a bogeyman of their own creation, largely to justify more ill-advised policies in the Middle East.
read more here
http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/08/26/fear_incorporated
August 27th, 2011 at 1:21 am
I was pleased to see Wajahat Ali, one of the authors of Fear Inc. wrote about the report he helped compile. In The Guardian. This is excellent exposure,
Fighting the defamation of Muslim Americans
Wajahat Ali guardian.co.uk, Friday 26 August 2011
For the first time, the fear-mongering and hate-preaching of US Islamophobes – and their funding – have been exposed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/aug/26/islamophobia-defamation-muslim-american
read more here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/aug/26/islamophobia-defamation-muslim-american
August 27th, 2011 at 1:56 am
“Garibaldi, thank you for your contribution to this report. We owe you and your colleauges who worked on this report, a debt of gratitude.”
I’ve seen this a couple of times before. Perhaps a larger font would work better? Loonwatch commentators do a good job with original essays, but they also post relevant writings by other people and are sometimes attributed to them until corrected. As in this case, it was written by Faiz Shakir, who worked on the report.
As for the report itself and the reaction, a couple of things jump at me:
It’s not really a huge amount of money, only enough to put the ideas out there which are later taken by others and more widely spread. I’ve said so before, the Conservative Hate Machine is awe inspiring in the way it controls the narrative.
The other is Horowitz response. For the founder of Discover The Networks, an Umberto Eco-like website dedicated to documenting all the funding and connections between his enemies, he’s pretty thin skinned when the same investigating is done to him.
August 27th, 2011 at 2:00 am
How islamic etc etc
I agree with your quote but would go further its to distract ordinary voters from looking at the economy , lack of healthcare , low taxation of the rich and so on ( added bonus Ireal gets billions of free military toys to play with )
I think it is the world greatest scam
August 27th, 2011 at 6:06 am
HGG, thank you. I retract, and thank Faiz Shakir for his excellent input.
August 27th, 2011 at 6:09 am
Sheila Musaji has compiled an excellent list from this report. Note, that what they have in common is Likud type Zionism.
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A Who’s Who of the Anti-Muslim/Anti-Arab/Islamophobia Industry – updated 8/26/11 by Sheila Musaji
The American Muslim (TAM) has collected information about these individuals in this easy to use format. Just click on the links provided to go to in-depth articles and backgrounders on these individuals. There are a number of other individuals who should be included here, and they will be added, and this will be updated as time permits.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali – see TAM Responses collection
Zachariah Anani *
Glenn Beck (media) – see TAM Responses collection
Rev. Flip Benham and Operation Save America *
Baron Boddisey of Gates of Vienna: Islamophobia Manifesto Clearly Lays Out Plot Against Muslims **
Ergun Mehmet Caner *
Aubrey & Joyce Chernick and the Fairbrook Foundation (financier) *****
Phyllis Chessler *
Ann Coulter (media) – see TAM Responses collection
Nonie Darwish and Former Muslims United *
Alan Dershowitz – see TAM Responses collection
Steven Emerson and the Investigative Project **
Bryan Fischer and The American Family Association **
Hugh Fitzgerald of Jihad Watch *
Fjordman/Jensen “doesn’t want to be associated” with Breivik **
Brigitte Gabriel and ACT for America ***
Dave Gaubatz *
Frank Gaffney and the Center for Security Policy (anti-Sharia) **** and ****
Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs and SIOA ***
John Guandolo *
Sean Hannity (media) – see TAM Responses collection
David Horowitz and the Freedom Center *****
Raymond Ibrahim and the Middle East Forum (MEF) **
Charles Jacobs and Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America CAMERA and David Project **
Rev. Terry Jones of Dove World Outreach Christian Center *
Joe Kaufman – see TAM Responses collection
Sam Kharoba (fake counter-terrorism trainer) *
Alan Keyes and the Oak Initiative *
Charles Krauthammer (media) – see TAM Responses collection
Michelle Malkin (media) – see TAM Responses collection
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) ***
Andrew McCarthy (media) see TAM Responses collection
Chuck Norris *
Bill O’Reilly (media) – see TAM Responses collection
Marty Peretz (media) – see TAM Responses collection
Daniel Pipes and the Middle East Forum (MEF) ****
Dennis Prager (media) *
Henry Rochejaquelein: Robert Spencer Discovers Another Mystery “Expert” *
Guy Rodgers and ACT for America **
Kamal Saleem *
Michael Savage (media) – see TAM Responses collection
Debbie Schlussel **
Phyllis Schlafly and the Eagle Forum *
Roland Shirk of Jihad Watch *
Walid Shoebat **
Anis Shorrosh *
Ali Sina and Faith Freedom International *
Robert Spencer and Jihad Watch ***
Mark Steyn (media) – see TAM Responses collection
Wafa Sultan *
Tom Trento and the Florida Security Council/United West Organizations *
Ibn Warraq – see TAM Responses collection
Bat Y’eor **
David Yerushalmi and SANE ****
NOTES: Those in bold are key figures. This list did contain the names of some Muslims who might be considered to be empowering or playing into the hands of the Islamophobes. However, it has been suggested that their inclusion in this category might be confusing to some. Therefore those names have been removed from this collection of key Islamophobes.
read more here
http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/a_whos_who_of_the_anti-muslimanti-arabislamophobia_industry/0018476
August 27th, 2011 at 7:03 am
@Talisman
Oh – yes, there’s a hyphen!
http://www.yellow-stars.com
…another one of my stoopid tyoos!
August 27th, 2011 at 7:20 am
We should know that these are the very groups that helped bring Geert Wilders and Dutch islamophobia to America.
Vrij Nederland, Volkskrant and other media reported back in 2009, when Wilders started traveling to the US more, the funding of Wilders and his political ambitions from especially Horowitz and his associates in California. These people are apparently working to internationalize Wilders “campaign” in mainly Europe.
Geert Wilders is the international face of these Islamophobic loons and scumbags. I’ve seen that the real reason is that Wilders himself would like to take over the Netherlands and lead the Western world with Israel in a genocidal war against all Muslims and Arabs everywhere. Fits nice with the Likud Party’s racism and Hitler-like bigotry.
The truth is that this hateful, immoral and despicable pack of Islamophobic loons are a threat to world peace and security!
August 27th, 2011 at 10:55 am
Evil and bloodthirsty bastards–that is what comes to mind naturally.
August 27th, 2011 at 10:57 pm
If they spend 1% of that on interfaith and outreach projects the world would be a better place
August 28th, 2011 at 8:20 am
^yup. We should all be involved in interfaith in our communities esp. during this time where there’s so much misinformation being spread around. Now’s a good time for our interfaith groups to do fundraisers for Somalia, for Cancer, for the homeless, for missing/exploited children, you name it…
August 28th, 2011 at 8:20 am
Now’s a good time, meaning esp. during Ramadan.
August 28th, 2011 at 8:49 am
@Khushboo, agreed
August 28th, 2011 at 10:51 am
Islam is the “fastest growing religion”?
Are you kidding?
Mohammedanism is dying. In the 40′s the subhuman worshippers of Mohammed were allied with the strongest state in Europe (Nazi Germany) and were licking their chops at the genocide they were about to commit against the Jews. Then, things looked promising.
After the 1948 Jihad, Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem were Shari’ah compliant (Jew-free) and success seemed imminent.
Fast forward to today: Jerusalem, Samaria and Judea are majority Jewish. The nicest thing in Mecca is the Starbucks, because Mohammedan world cannot even feed its own.
Yes, it is true that the Mubarak’s Egyptian KKKaliphate and other Mohammedan hellholes have increased in population: but because of cousin-marriage, and shari’ah-style environmental policies; the Muslonazis of Egypt and the M.E. are a freakshow of genetic inferiority, physical repulsiveness, and moral degradation. If I worshipped Mohammed, I would not be proud at the freak-show mobs of Arabia.
Rather than working on numbers; how about you focus on the quality of your shitty death cult.
(and, BTW, fastest growing religious group in Middle East are observant Jews. As they are in the United States (together with Mormons). Death cult of Mohammmed has no future.)
August 28th, 2011 at 9:22 pm
in other news spencer are complaining that this report is “propagandistic” http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/08/the-islamic-supremacist-propaganda-machine-cranks-out-another-islamophobia-report.html
August 28th, 2011 at 9:22 pm
meant to say “is”
August 28th, 2011 at 9:29 pm
What a way to waste money.
August 29th, 2011 at 12:41 am
Mohammedan Demographics, such posts barely warrant a response but allow me to give you the benefit of a few minutes typing time. You will ignore all this but hey, whatever.
- Muslims allied to Nazis, wrong. The Mufti of Jerusalem ‘allied’ to the Nazis, the Mufti being representative of one group of Muslims. The ‘Mufti’ at the time was a nationalist and His alliance was one of convenience, the Nazis would give him the whole region of Palestine, driving the British out, in exchange for his ‘help’. Heinrich Wolff, the Nazi Consul-General in Palestine, played such naïvety well.
- And exactly what help did he give? Well, he was used to recruit Bosnian Muslims into the Waffen SS who were used for anti-partisan activities, again with the promise that they’d get their homeland after the war was over. This unit didn’t last long and actually fragmented during it’s first deployment when the soldiers were told that they had been lied to and were in fact going to be used to defend Germany.
- We should of course, couple this with the millions of Muslims, mostly from India, Dutch Indonesia and Malaya, that fought and died on the side of the allies. Many more worked as merchant seamen with the allied merchant navies and again were regularly killed when their ships were attacked. We should also take note that huge numbers of Hindus fought for the Nazis or at least supported (and still do) their goals and views. But let’s ignore these two facts for the greater good shall we…
- It’s also telling to note that most of the anti-semetic literature within the Muslim world comes from this time period where the ‘Mufti’ had Christian propaganda against Jews translated into Arabic for the consumption of his people. Prior to this there simply wasn’t the Jew hatred seen in Europe amongst Muslims. Funny that isn’t it? The combination of this old Christian rhetoric and the creation of Israel on ‘Muslim’ lands is the cause of all this.
- Now your ‘facts’… funny how they all relate to Arabia that only makes up about 27% odd percent of all Muslims isn’t it? There are more Muslims in Indonesia than the whole of the Arab world, I am also told that there are more Muslims in India than the Arab world as well. That’s two rather giant groups that you have, for the greater good, missed out. Arabia =/= to Muslims.
- And your ‘genetic’ stuff? Meh, you provide no sources at all, but maybe it is true, who knows? We do however know that the US and Europe are hardly inbred free though don’t we?
- Oh yeah, we don’t worship Mohammed thanks. But you know that, you’re just trying to provoke. Sad really.
- Finally I agree that we as Muslims should work on quality not quantity. We kinda suck at that right now…
I won’t be expecting a reply so don’t push yourself to hard in writing one.
August 29th, 2011 at 1:07 am
I am pleased to see that the authors of this report Fear Inc. include a Muslim, Wajahat Ali of altmuslim.com, and that Faiz Shakir (vice President of Think Progress) wrote about it.
It means finally American Muslims are taking this threat seriously.
Also, notice that George Soros is a major funder of Centre for American Progress
He may not be behind Loon Watch (or maybe he is) but
It also advises the President. We owe the CAP a hugh debt of thanks. This report is very valuable, and it needs to be publicised the world over. It could be a sign that the Obama administration is taking Islamophobia seriously at last. Once we know the instigators of hate, the funders, we can shine a light on them and fight them effectively.
To any Muslim who is dishearteneed, remember this is only a small cabal who do not represent the majority of Americans but they do wield influence. I’d ask bloggers and writers here to write about the names behind the funding, complete with pictures and their business dealings. This will make their business partners think twice before doing business with them. A lot probably make their money through Muslim countries. We can call for boycotts of the products made by Islamophobe funders.
They are not many so it shouldn’t be that difficult.
Thank you George Soros
Thank you CAP:)
August 29th, 2011 at 10:14 am
@Jack Cope
That is a pretty hateful troll to address. Very brave of you.
“Muslims allied to Nazis, wrong. The Mufti of Jerusalem ‘allied’ to the Nazis, the Mufti being representative of one group of Muslims. ”
The Mufti was appointed by the British occupiers, not elected by Palestinians. His role was similar to a deacon in the church, and he only had jurisdiction of religious sites in Jerusalem.
If some deacon, appointed by the Pope let’s say, to watch over churches in New York City during WWII had aligned with the Nazis, how significant would that be? Would it indict all Americans or the entire Christian world? It’s a silly argument and I don’t know why it’s been so resilient.
It’s just a weak attempt to shift responsibility for the greatest slaughter in history…and I am so sick of the “Grand Mufti of Jerusalem” thing that I just had to expand on your point…even though the troll has lead us somewhat off topic.
August 29th, 2011 at 11:44 am
I accidentally posted this in the wrong thread, but here it is. Phill Weiss makes an important point about Fear Inc.
The mainstream media need to start openly discussing this subject.
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Important study shows that a small network is fostering widespread hatred of Islam inside US politics and public opinion
by Philip Weiss on August 29, 2011
I’m hopeful that Islamophobia won’t be so successful, and partly because the Center for American Progress has risen against it.
The report is careful to sidestep the Israel-motivation angle of the Islamophobes. I think this is intellectually irresponsible, but inevitable. No one in the Establishment wants to touch this angle. They don’t want to be sounding like Walt and Mearsheimer, the Israel lobby. And of course, it’s good that a portion of the Establishment is denouncing the ultra-Zionists. But supporting Israel is certainly an important part of the motivation, as I pointed out about Yerushalmi a few weeks back– the Jewish right to Palestine is at the heart of his engagement, he even changed his name to Jerusalem. And donor Aubrey Chernick, whom the report focuses on — well, again, Israel support is at the heart of his public actions.
read more here
http://mondoweiss.net/2011/08/important-study-shows-that-a-small-network-is-fostering-widespread-hatred-of-islam-inside-us-politics-and-public-opinion.html
August 29th, 2011 at 11:47 am
Nothing brave there, I get the odd few death threats and I’m still waiting for someone to hijack a cruise missile and fire it at my family (one of the funnier ones) but not much to worry about
I’ve been doing this sort of thing ever since I first became a Muslim, I find it strengthens my faith quite a lot don’t you?
Also, thanks for your point, I should have pointed out that the Mufti was an appointment and was in many ways a puppet. However, it must be said that there was a fair bit of pro-Nazi junk going on *but* that this pro-Nazi stuff was a) due to the ‘enemy of my enemy is my freind’ attitude of Arab leadership against the colonial powers and b) not representative of all Arabs, let alone all Muslims! And again I’ll point out that most anti-Semitic ideas in the Muslim world have their roots in Christian material that was translated into Arabic during this time period.
Finally, your point that if certain persons had alined themselves with the Nazis is quite important; many many people in the US and Europe did do their upmost to help the Nazis, one of the biggest being Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motors who not only propagated theories like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in his magazines but was awarded the highest merit in Nazi Germany by Hitler himself *and* refused to return the medal when war was declared. I’m just scratching the surface, we haven’t spoken of IBM designing and biulding Hitler’s Holocaust computing system, Sir Oswald Mosley, the huge campaign to stop the war by British newspapers on Hitler’s behalf, the fact that Hitler himself and his ideals were quite popular anyhow (he got elected didn’t he?!) and so on. And that’s just before the war…
I, like you, don’t want to drag this topic off course with this stupid argument so I will direct people to my site where I have written extensively on the subject (site is down right now but will be up very very shortly ins’allah). Like you say, it’s trying to shift the blame for one of the most barbaric acts that humans have carried out onto a party that had nothing to do with it.
August 29th, 2011 at 12:26 pm
Here is Eli Clipton one of the authors of this report, read this, it’s awesome, he profiles a funder he exposed above
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Meet An Islamophobia Network Funder: Richard Scaife
By Eli Clifton on Aug 29, 2011 at 1:30 pm
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/08/29/306691/meet-an-islamophobia-network-funder-richard-scaife/
August 29th, 2011 at 12:31 pm
Islamophobes Attack CAP Fear Inc. Report – More Sound & Fury Signifying Nothing
Sheila Musaji
When the CAP report Fear Inc., the Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America was released yesterday, I noted that it would not be long until the Islamophobes responded. They began responding within an incredibly short time after the report was released. In fact, I assume that they must have all attended speed-reading classes in order to have actually read the report so quickly.
http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/islamophobes-attack-cap-fear-inc.-report-more-sound-fury-signifying-nothing/0018748
August 29th, 2011 at 12:46 pm
@Jack Cope
“I’ve been doing this sort of thing ever since I first became a Muslim, I find it strengthens my faith quite a lot don’t you?”
Yes, same here. I used to be timid, thinking I shouldn’t try to speak as a Muslim, especially as a convert. I may not know all the same things as someone who was born into the faith or who has grown up in a Muslim-majority country, but I think we all have something to offer.
No one speaks for ALL Muslims anyway, so I do my best to contribute something positive from my vantage point.
August 29th, 2011 at 3:50 pm
@Mohammedan Demographics
Your insane and factually bereft rant aside, it seems that you’re going against the ijma’ of the Islamophobes. Robert Spencer—who loons such as yourself regard as infallible—wrote a book entitled Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World’s Fastest-Growing Faith. Are you saying that Spencer is wrong and a liar? That’s odd, because other loons claim the exact opposite: that Spencer is never wrong (Spencer himself still claims that no one has ever found an error in his work). I suppose this is a Catch-22 for anti-Muslim bigots.
Is Islam the fastest growing religion? I don’t know, but what’s true is that (to paraphrase Prof. Khalid Yahya Blankinship), for some, that common claim sounds the alarm. For Muslims it affirms the veracity of their faith.
As for your assertion that Muslims in general “helped” the Nazis during WWII, it fails for several reasons. First and foremost, to paraphrase Danios: far more Muslims fought against the Nazis than with them, and far more Christians than Muslims fought for the Nazis.
Your claim that Muslims have always wanted to kill Jews also isn’t based in reality. Even a cursory look at history will reveal that European Christians were the ones responsible for the most pogroms (in terms of both quality and quantity) against Jews. Case in point: the Khmelnytsky Uprising, where as much as hundreds of thousands of Jews were killed. Can you find anything analogous in fourteen centuries of Islamic history? No, yet I can find other comparable massacres committed by Christian Europeans (along the Rhine during the Crusades, for example). The facts speak for themselves.
August 29th, 2011 at 6:57 pm
@ Mahommedan Demographics:
We don’t worship Muhammad. In fact, we consider him to be a human being. Nor has the Muslim world ever been able to reach a much of a consensus on ANYTHING. Aside from the Prophet’s lifetime, we’ve never had a unified political structure whatsoever. By the time WW II rolled around, the Caliphate (which is mostly a Sunni thing anyway) had been abolished and most of the Muslim-majority states were ruled as colonies of one European power or another. The French took Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, West Africa, Syria and Lebanon. The British claimed Egypt, Palestine, Iraq, Arabia, India, Afghanistan, Hausland, Malaya and the East African coast. The Italians took Libya and Somalia. The Dutch had Indonesia. The Russians were in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and the rest of Inner Asia. America had the Philippines (yep it was still an American colony back then). Even Iran was split between zones of ‘Russian’ and ‘British’ influence.
Yes, SOME Muslims allied with Germany, but they were an overwhelming minority. Most were little different than the Nazi collaborators in Europe. The claim that Hitler was ‘inspired’ or ‘supported’ by Muslims seems rather disingenuous. It’s more like an attempt to absolve white, western and mostly nominal Christian Europeans for their sins. But one cannot get around it. Hitler was white. Hitler was western. Hitler and the Nazis envisioned a race-based political system in Europe, and played off existing anti-Semitic myths. If you really want to be horrified, you should read some of the accounts of Nazi collaborators in France, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Serbia. They were just as ruthless in rounding up and murdering their Jewish and Roma minorities, to say nothing of political dissidents amongst their own ethnic groups.
Anti-Semitism and ethnic nationalism was something relatively new in the Middle East. This isn’t to say there were no historic examples (Fes for example) but rather that the ideological factor just wasn’t there. It had to be imported from Europe. Much of the Middle East actually had a sizable Jewish minority. In fact Baghdad alone was home to some 90,000 or so Iraqi Jews before the war. However, it should be noted that part of the reason anti-Semitism found fertile ground – at least in the Levant – was because of a sudden influx of Jewish settlers to Palestine in the early 20th century. Because the Brits refused to acknowledge it, there were already simmering tensions between Palestinians and recently arrived Jews from Europe and the Americas. German propaganda exploited this. Obviously outside of the region anti-Semitism was largely unknown (if only because Jews were such an extreme and exotic minority that it was a non-issue).
Far more compelling was Germany’s claimed anti-colonial stance. The reason Hitler was so keen to court Palestine and Iraq was simple: it disrupted the British colonies. The Middle East was very important as it connected the Empire to British India. The ‘Jewel in the Crown.’ Even were it not economically important, India was such a powerful symbol of Britain that any attempt to deprive the British of power was an insult of the highest order. For the Nazis it was more pragmatic; it focused British might and resources elsewhere. What is not mentioned is that this minority was not alone. The Nazis also recruited a sympathetic branch of the Indian independence movement – largely Sikh and Hindu – and spread propaganda that they would liberate India from the British. The Japanese spread similar propaganda in Burma and actually gained the support of the King of Thailand by claiming they would let the Thais take back Laos and other lands lost to the French.
Muslim subjects of the European powers DID fight for the Allies, and probably in greater numbers than their co-religionists did for the Axis. There were no shortage of Indian troops, whether Muslim, Hindu or Sikh. Many fought in the Middle Eastern theatre, just as they had in WW I against the Ottoman Turks. Speaking of the Turks, Turkey was one of the few countries that gave sanctuary to European Jews fleeing the Holocausts. Several Turks (practicing Muslims at that) were counted amongst the Righteous of All Nations by Israel itself! Israel has recently recognized the first Arab amongst that lot too iirc. In Libya, Omar Mukhtar fought a bloody campaign AGAINST Fascist Italy and is still remembered as a national hero. There were Muslim partisans who fought the Nazis all through the Balkans and into the Crimea.
Now, as you said, flash forward to today. The overwhelming bulk of Muslim countries have received independence. By last count, there’s roughly 50 some Muslim majority countries spread across three continents. Amongst the Muslim-majority nations we have Turkey, Saudi Arbaia, Iran, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Senegal, Egypt, UAE, Albania, Mali, Morocco, Tunisia, Lebanon, Syria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Tajikistan, the Maldives, Niger, Djibouti… Some of the fastest growing countries in the world, several of the biggest and fastest growing economies in the world, and some really beautiful and vibrant countries. If they are so terrible then why do so many westerners WANT to work in Dubai and Abu Dhabi? Why do so many Europeans vacation in Tunisia, Turkey, Egypt, Malaysia or the Maldives? Why is it that there are so many falafel and kebob shops, and hookah bars, and bellydance studios? Quite frankly it seems to me you are infatuated with our culture…
Not all or even most Muslims come from the Middle East, and we certainly aren’t all Arabs. Nor do we necessarily care or identify with them. Indonesia is by far the world’s largest Muslim country, followed by Pakistan, Bangladesh and even India (which is actually a Muslim minority state). Nigeria, which is only half Muslim, is still larger than any Arab state save Egypt. Ethiopia is only about a third Muslim, yet it’s Muslim population is one of the largest in the world. Russia’s even smaller yet, and it’s still home to some 17 million or so Muslims. But my personal favorite? China, which only has about 1% of their total population following Islam. Do you know how many Muslims are in China? About 22 or 23 million! One percent of China’s huge population is still considerably bigger than many countries.
Which incidentally is why I always have to laugh about the claims that Muslims are ‘overtaking’ white Europeans. Several countries have much larger Muslim minorities which you westerners are largely ignorant of. In some cases there are active separatist groups. And yet the funny thing is we are to believe that a tiny 2% of France is going to take over the country? Thailand is nearly 6% Muslim and calls for autonomy in Pattani have largely been ignored. Norway is only about 1% Muslim, compared with 3% of Burma, 7% of Kenya, 12% of Liberia, 13% of India and 17% of Israel! Yes Israel has a Muslim minority and I’m not talking about Palestinians here; I’m talking about Israeli Muslims. They exist.
Now, given the sheer geographic diversity that we encompass, I find the claims of inbreeding to be rather silly. I could travel from Dakar to Mindanao and almost everyone I would meet would be Muslim. Am I to conclude that I’m directly related to everyone stretching across MOST of Asia and Africa? Physically I certainly don’t resemble black Africans, which is a broad term anyway, as it includes everyone from the Hausa and Fulani all the way to the Nubians. Nor do I resemble the Malays in Asia. I doubt I’d be mistaken for Desi either. Maybe Afghan but not Desi. And I doubt I’m related to all 180 million or so people in Pakistan, let alone India or Bangladesh. Given just how vast the world of Islam IS it would be impossible for us to all be inbred. It’s rather like claiming everyone in the south is inbred. It’s absurd.
I find it more amusing that you feel the constant need to insult our culture. I’d dare say that we’ve made more cultural achievements than people like Pamella Geller and Bobbie Spencer. The Taj Mahal and Lal Qilla? Muslim. al-Azhar University? Also Muslim. The Dome of the Rock? Again, Muslim. Some of the most identifiable cultural landmarks and institutions came from Islam. We gave the world everything from the poetry of Rumi to the qawwali of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, from the pop music of Cat Stevens to the writings of Naguib Mahfouz, from the films of Shahrukh Khan to the dances of the whirling dervishes. We developed Persian miniature painting, Arabic calligraphy, Damascene steel, Javanese shadow puppets and so on. We introduced PAPER to the West, preserved the philosophy of the Greeks and expanded on the sciences, particularly math, medicine and astronomy. Hence a proliferation of Arabic terminology, from ‘algebra’ to ‘astrolabe.’ We’ve got Muhammad Ali, Benazir Bhutto, A.R. Rahman, Baaba Maal and Aziz Ansari (who is hilarious btw; my gf just got me into ‘Parks and Recreation’).
So yeah, I am very proud of what my brothers and sisters have done over the centuries. I’m not going to let an anonymous bigot on the internet detract from that.
August 30th, 2011 at 6:23 am
A paradox of hate: extremist Israelis ally with neo-Nazis
Maik Baumgärtner and Lisa Bjurwald Aug 30, 2011
Summary
Extreme right-wing European groups, many with an anti-Semitic past, see Israel as the defender of western civilisation against Islam.
read more here
http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/comment/a-paradox-of-hate-extremist-israelis-ally-with-neo-nazis
August 30th, 2011 at 6:29 am
Islamophobia Inc. Targets GOP Muslims Too
Aug 29 2011 by Steve Clemmons
Steve Clemons is Washington editor at large for The Atlantic and editor in chief of Atlantic LIVE. He writes frequently about politics and foreign affairs.
Are you or are you not a card-carrying member of the pro-Shariah, Muslim Brotherhood network trying to force the citizens of the United States of America to submit to the hateful will of Allah?
I haven’t heard anyone in the network of scholars, validators, or activists — profiled in the just-released Center for American Progress report Fear Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America — utter the above statement precisely. However, the propaganda of a growing American-based network agitating against the spread of Shariah Law, an entirely fabricated fear-mongering movement, sounds a vibe close enough.
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David Ramadan is a distinguished guy — and it’s great that he is getting into the political ring. The fact is that the Muslim stuff aside, Ramadan and Frank Gaffney probably share very similar world views as devout conservatives both.
House Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor of all people has endorsed and supported David Ramadan for this House of Delegates seat in Virginia — but this inconvenient fact hasn’t yet factored into Pamela Geller’s reporting.
The fact that the GOP is now experiencing the kind of outrageous character assaults against Muslims that many Dems, like US House Representative Keith Ellison, have endured only means that the push back has come much later than it should have.
People like Edwin Meese, Eric Cantor, and Meese’s colleagues at Heritage like David Addington and Ed Feulner, should be calling foul on the Islamophobes in the GOP who are hatching a new variant of bigotry and McCarthyism.
read more here
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/08/islamophobia-inc-targets-gop-muslims-too/244309/
August 30th, 2011 at 7:38 am
^must be tough to be a Muslim Republican these days.
August 31st, 2011 at 1:48 pm
Exposed: ‘Fear Inc.’ – The Anti-Muslim Hate Industry
The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America
Aziz Poonawalla
I’m proud to share with you today a report that my friend Wajahat Ali has been working on for more than 6 months with the DC-based think tank, Center for American Progress, entitled ‘Fear Inc., The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America.’
read more here
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/39080_Exposed-_Fear_Inc._-_The_Anti-Muslim_Hate_Industry#rss
This post is cross-posted at my blog at Beliefnet, City of Brass. I have also been blogging about Ramadan this year and invite any and all – muslims and non muslims alike – to stop by.
August 31st, 2011 at 4:09 pm
Loon Watch, this may be an anti loon tip for you. To everyone one else, it may be worth your checking out this at Think Progress, and helping out with comments.
‘My Fellow American’: New Online Project To Push Back On Islamophobia
By Guest Blogger on Aug 31, 2011 at 3:00 pm
One of the more unfortunate repercussions of the Islamophobia echo chamber is their ability to mainstream bigoted discourse towards American Muslims. As the Center for America Progress’ “Fear, Inc.” report documents, “some well-established conservative media outlets are a key part of this echo chamber, mixing coverage of alarmist threats posed by the mere existence of Muslims in America.”
This mainstreaming of hateful rhetoric gives fodder to respected community, political, and civic leaders; radio talk show hosts; and Christian right preachers. Talking points that Obama is a Muslim, or that American mosques are places of stealth jihad, and other routine demonizing statements towards American Muslims have become the norm in our post 9/11 discourse on Islam in America.
But this relationship between mainstream media and the Islamophobia network is not surprising. What is more alarming is that voices of civility and sanity have not taken action to counter this reality. In an effort to push against the mainstreaming of hateful speech towards Muslims, Unity Productions Foundation has launched a new online project called “My Fellow American.” Centered on a short emotional video that juxtaposes voices of anti-Muslim hate with everyday American Muslims, it serves as a call to conscience to everyday Americans:
read more here
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/08/31/308813/%e2%80%98my-fellow-american%e2%80%99-new-online-project-to-push-back-on-islamophobia/
August 31st, 2011 at 4:29 pm
Neocon Blogger Cherry Picks Pew Report Data To Dismiss Islamophobia
Ali Gharib
Posted by arrangement with Think Progress
Neoconservative blogger Ed Lasky takes issue with the Center For American Progress’s new report — “Fear, Inc.” — documenting the Islamophobia industry in America. He cites a Reuters write-up of a Pew poll surveying American Muslims that says, among other things, “that most Muslims felt ordinary Americans were friendly or neutral toward them.” This prompts Lasky to ask:
But the same Reuters article Lasky cited says that Muslims in America are content with their lives in the U.S. despite fairly widespread feelings of discrimination related to their faith, not because such feelings do not exist. Reuters writes:
Since 2007, there has been little change in how Muslim Americans see how they are viewed by the rest of America, with 28 percent saying other Americans viewed them suspiciously and 22 percent saying they had been called offensive names. Only 6 percent said they had been threatened or attacked, while 38 percent were bothered by their sense that they were singled out for increased government surveillance.
read more here
http://www.lobelog.com/neocon-blogger-cherry-picks-pew-report-data-to-dismiss-islamophobia/
September 1st, 2011 at 9:24 am
Think Progress, is doing indepth profiles of the Islamophobes they featured in Fear Inc.
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Meet An Islamophobia Network ‘Expert’: Steven Emerson
By Eli Clifton on Aug 31, 2011 at 6:05 pm
Steven Emerson directs the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT), a group dedicated to exposing the dangers of Islamist infiltration in America through investigative journalism. But his career, as discussed in CAP’s new report “Fear, Inc.,” is marked by shoddy reporting and suspicious financial arrangements between private companies, in some cases listing him as the sole employee, and the nonprofit foundations which collect tax-exempt contributions to support his work.
read more here
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/08/31/308537/steve-emerson-investigative-project/
September 1st, 2011 at 9:26 am
Countering the Islamaphobia network
August 31st, 2011
Editor’s Note: Faiz Shakir is a Vice President at the Center for American Progress and serves as Editor-in-Chief of ThinkProgress.org. He was one of the co-authors of a recent Center for American Progress repot entitled, Fear, Inc. The roots of the Islamaphobia network in America.
By Faiz Shakir, Special to CNN
Shortly after 9/11, Daniel Pipes – a part-time Middle East scholar and full-time critic of Islam – felt emboldened. “I have a lot to say,” he declared. “This is my moment.”
For years, Pipes had been attempting to scare Americans about the presence of Islam. 9/11 was a tragedy for the nation; for Pipes, it was a long-sought opportunity to push an argument that “a state of war exists” between Islam and the West. Over the past decade, Pipes and a small network of inter-connected anti-Muslim organizers appear to be succeeding in their efforts to cast aspersions of the loyalties of Muslim Americans.
read more here
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/31/countering-the-islamaphobia-network/
September 1st, 2011 at 9:31 am
Meet An Islamophobia Network Donor: The Lynde And Harry Bradley Foundation
By Eli Clifton on Aug 30, 2011
As a key funder in the Islamophobia network, the Bradley Foundation contributed $4.25 million to the David Horowitz Freedom Center, $815,000 to Frank Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy and $305,000 to Daniel Pipes’s Middle East Forum.
When not funding some of the key groups responsible for propagating misinformation about Muslim-Americans, the Bradley Foundation uses its financial resources to promote a militarist foreign policy, most notably through their $1.2 million in support for the Project for the New American Century, a highly influential group which helped promote a neoconservative foreign policy during the Bush administration.
Indeed, the Bradley Foundation has played an instrumental role in bringing neoconservatives into the halls of power in Washington. Irving Kristol, one of the movement’s key intellectuals, commented that AEI’s efforts to recruit neoconservatives in the 1970s and 1980s was “facilitated by the appearance on the scene of a rejuvenated Bradley Foundation and John M. Olin Foundation.”
The foundation also generously supports various right-wing institutions such as the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, the American Enterprise Institute, the Federalist Society, the Hoover Institution, the Institute for American Values and the Hudson Institute.
read more here
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/08/30/307525/bradley-foundation-islamophobia/
September 2nd, 2011 at 3:22 am
Top Ten Right-Wing Responses To CAP’s Islamophobia
Report: ‘Cowards,’ ‘Straight Out of Mein Kampf,’ ‘A Pile Of Dung’
By Eli Clifton on Sep 1, 2011
The Center for American Progress’s new report, “Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America” is receiving a positive welcome from neutral observers as journalists and pundits pore over the 139-page exposé on the U.S. Islamophobia network.
The report’s authors have appeared on CNN.com, Al Jazeera English, Current TV, Guardian.co.uk and numerous radio interviews. Print media outlet such as The Jewish Daily Forward, The Atlantic, Salon.com, The Washington Post and The Nation have all run articles discussing the report’s findings.
Unfortunately, that accuracy and thorougness has proven a challenge for many of the Islamophobes mentioned in the report. With no serious factual errors with which to attack the authors, they’ve fallen back on attacking straw men and offering vitriolic, if at times colorful, ad hominem attacks.
Here’s the top ten list of right-wing responses to “Fear, Inc.”
read more here
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/09/01/310223/right-wing-response-islamophobia-report/
September 4th, 2011 at 7:08 am
Politics
Meet An Islamophobia Network Funder: The Varet And Rosenwald Family
By Eli Clifton on Sep 2, 2011
According to a 2007 New York Jewish Week article, Elizabeth Varet, who chairs the Anchorage Charitable Fund and serves as vice-president at the William Rosenwald Family Fund, gained inspiration for her philanthropy from her father, William Rosenwald, who she says:
…was driven by an empathy for people at risk — people who were suffering — “and a feeling of ‘there but for the grace of God go I.’ And he believed in acting on it.”
Indeed, the Anchorage Fund engages in a broad array of philanthropy to various right-wing institutions such as the: Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD); Hoover Institution; Hudson Institute, America Enterprise Institute; and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs.
Additional board members of the Anchorage Charitable Fund include Michael A. Varet, Sarah R. Varet, David R. Varet, and Joseph R. Varet.
In the 2008 tax year, the Anchorage Fund “suffered a complete loss of its investment through PJ Administrator LLC,” according to its 2008 tax filings. PJ Administrator was a client of Bernie Madoff, whose Ponzi scheme collapsed in 2008.
Charitable activity from both Varet related foundations has significantly decreased since 2008 but it’s safe to say that the Islamophobia network described in Fear Inc., wouldn’t have become such a formidable force without the deep-pocketed support of family foundations like the ones operated by the heirs to Julius Rosenwald’s Sears Roebuck fortune.
READ MORE HERE
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/09/02/310779/meet-an-islamophobia-network-funder-the-varet-and-rosenwald-family/
February 20th, 2012 at 2:24 am
LOL – This isn’t a phobia. After September 11, 2001, many people heard Osama bin Laden speak of Islam. Some said bin Laden hijacked a peaceful religion others said Islam is violent, fascist and barbaric.
Many of us turned to the Qur’an, Haditha and Sirat to find out for ourselves. We know that after 622 CE Mohammed was violent in the Ghazwah and Siryah – bent on conquest and urging his followers to wage jihad.
If Jihad was simply to promote good and forbid evil nobody would have a problem with it – but in the Qur’an and Haditha, jihad is always associated with a bloodbath.
The Muslim Brotherhood has said it themselves that they understand the “Grand Jihad” to be nothing less than “destroying western civilation from within”.
http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/20.pdf
The “moderate” Muslim groups like the MSA has hosted the likes of Anwar al Awlaki, leader of Al Qaeda on the Arab Peninsula and idealogue of the Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan.
Did Osama bin Laden do an Islamicly correct thing? Yes… unless you prefer to lie to me and tell me that the writings in the Quran is wrong.
Is Islam a peaceful religion? No Mohammed was a conqueror.
If you are peaceful – you are Christian.. not Muslim.
Muslims are either violent or shirk.