Daniel Pipes

Founder and president of the Middle East Forum, or MEF

Daniel pipes

“ In the end ... neither U.S. presidents nor Islamist apologists fool people. Anyone with eyes and ears realizes that the Islamic State, like the Taliban and al-Qaeda before it, is 100 percent Islamic.” - Daniel Pipes

Daniel Pipes

Founder and president of the Middle East Forum, or MEF

Daniel Pipes is the founder and president of the Middle East Forum, an independent nonprofit organization. Its mission is promoting American interests through publications, research, media outreach, and public education. MEF publishes the Middle East Quarterly and sponsors Campus Watch, Islamist Watch, the Legal Project, and the Washington Project. In 2002, Pipes launched Campus Watch to monitor professors and academics that deviate from Pipes’ political ideologies. In 2007, he created the Legal Project as a subsidiary of the Middle East Forum, in response to a “lawsuit brought by the Islamic Society of Boston against 17 defendants, including counterterrorism specialist Steven Emerson,” the founder and executive director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism. The Legal Project now functions as a resource to limit defamation lawsuits brought by other aggrieved Muslim organizations.  

Pipes has recommended increased profiling of American Muslims and Arabs to cope with an impending exaggerated threat of “militant" Islam and repeated the falsehood that President Barack Obama is a former Muslim who “practiced Islam.” He joined the campaign against the Park51 community center in New York City, claiming that the planned building “will spread Islamist ideology” and that the proposed plan “carries the unmistakable odor of Islamic triumphalism.” 

In response to President Barack Obama's remarks about ISIS not being representative of Islam or Muslim, Daniel Pipes said: “In the end ... neither U.S. presidents nor Islamist apologists fool people. Anyone with eyes and ears realizes that the Islamic State, like the Taliban and al-Qaeda before it, is 100 percent Islamic.” 

Daniel Pipes' MEF regularly contributes to several of the organizations that are featured in the Islamophobia network and responsible for spreading misinformation about Islam and Muslims. 

 

 

 

Daniel Pipes speaks at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit

This presentation took place at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit in New Delhi on December 7, 2013. 

Daniel Pipes photo by Daniel Pipes under CC-BY-SA-3.0