Pipes The Extremist is Bad for America & Bad for Peace

Khaled Saffuri, Executive Director for the Islamic Institute, stated, "Daniel Pipes has made it his mission to promote hate and bigotry and to divide people. Pipes has repeatedly condemned the President’s message of inclusion, and he opposes the President’s Road Map to Peace. The US Institute for Peace needs a person who brings the many cultures, religions and ethnicities of our diverse world together, not someone who seeks to divide people based on race or religion."

Congress established the US Institute for Peace in 1984. The 15 Board members meet six times a year and are confirmed by the US Senate. The Washington Post, the Forward, Chicago Tribune, Dallas Morning News, National Council of La Raza, numerous experts on the Middle East and countless others interested in peace oppose Pipes’ nomination.

Recently Republican and Democrat members of the Senate Committee on Education, Workforce Pensions and Labor were not convinced of Pipes’ nomination and failed to confirm his appointment.

Through his writings and speeches, Daniel Pipes has demonstrated a virulent perspective against Arabs and Islam. Pipes has called for the monitoring of all American Muslims in public service and has maliciously questioned the patriotism of American Muslims who serve in the administration. In trying to marginalize the growing American Muslim vote, Pipes has branded all major American Muslim political and advocacy groups as terrorist fronts and has vocally criticized President Bush for making a careful distinction between Islam and terrorism. Most recently, after calling for federal surveillance of all Muslim organizations and mosques, Pipes refused to condemn the shameful interment of Americans of Japanese descent during World War II.

Throughout his career, Pipes has justified his campaign of hate, stating that "(The) increased stature, and affluence, and enfranchisement of American Muslims…will present true dangers to American Jews." (American Jewish Congress Convention, 10/21/01). Furthering this paranoia, Pipes has established a "blacklist" of American academics and writers who he believes are sympathetic with the Palestinians. Incredibly, Pipes opposes your Road Map for Peace as he opposed all previous peace efforts including the Oslo, Madrid and Wye peace efforts.

In addition, Daniel Pipes has made a series of statements considered offensive by Muslims, African-Americans, and immigrants. In some instances, Pipes has even attempted to "reeducate" Muslims about what he believes they should believe as followers of Islam:.

"I don’t see any Hindu stamps, and I don’t see Hindus filing so many complaints," he said. "American Muslims a New Force," Larry Witham The Washington Times 11/28/2000
http://www.hvk.org/articles/1100/99.html

"The Koran is a not ‘a product of Muhammad or even of Arabia,’ but a collection of earlier Judeo-Christian liturgical materials stitched together to meet the needs of a later age…A few scholars go even further, doubting even the existence of Muhammad." – Daniel Pipes, The Jerusalem Post, 5/12/2000

"The Muslim Claim to Jerusalem," Daniel Pipes Middle East Quarterly, September 2001 http://www.danielpipes.org/article/84

"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." National Review 11/19/90

"The Palestinians are miserable people…and they deserve to be." Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, July 2001

"Iranians and Pakistanis, to take two groups of non-Arabs, re at least as widely conspiracy-minded and as anti- Semitic as, say, Tunisians and Kuwaitis." Commentary 9/1/99

"There is no escaping the unfortunate fact that Muslim government 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." – Daniel Pipes, "The War’s Most Agonizing Issue," Jerusalem Post, 1/22/03

"…black converts [to Islam] tend to hold vehemently anti-American, anti-Christian, and anti-Semitic attitudes." Commentary, 6/1/2000

"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." (National Review, 11/19/90)