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]] Daniel Pipes (born September 9 , 1949 ) is an American historian and Counter-terrorism analyst who specializes in the Middle East . He has written or co-written 18 books, maintains a blog, and lectures around the world presenting his analysis of world trends. His work has attracted both admiration and criticism as a result of his view that Islamism is incompatible with democracy, freedom, multiculturalism, and human rights. Pipes is the founder and director of the Middle East Forum , a former member of the board of the U.S. Institute Of Peace , an adjunct scholar at the Washington Institute Of Near East Policy (WINEP), and a regular columnist for the '' New York Sun '' and '' The Jerusalem Post ''. He contributes regularly to David Horowitz 's online publication '' FrontPage Magazine '', and he has had his work published by many newspapers across North America, including the '' Washington Post '', '' New York Times '', and '' Wall Street Journal ''. 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 BBC and Al Jazeera , and has lectured in 25 countries. Pipes is also the founder of Campus Watch , an organization and website that opposes what it sees as anti-U.S. and anti-Israel bias. Pipes and the organization were accused of attacking Academic Freedom in 2002 by publishing a list of academics critical of Israel and U.S. foreign policy. "The War on Academic Freedom" , ''The Nation'', November 11, 2002. BACKGROUND Pipes attended the Harvard pre-school, then received a private school education, partly abroad. He enrolled in Harvard University, where his father was then still a professor, in the fall of 1968; for his first two years he studied . He learned Arabic and studied the Quran , which he said gave him an appreciation for Islam. {Link without Title} He returned to Harvard in 1973 and obtained a Ph.D. 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 Egypt , where he wrote a book on colloquial Egyptian Arabic which was published in 1983. He taught world history at the University Of Chicago from 1972 to 1982, history at Harvard from 1983 to 1984, and policy strategy at the Naval War College from 1984 to 1986. He switched from medieval Islamic studies to modern Islam in the late 1970s. For the next 10 years, he published his essays widely, but he did not gain Tenure from any of the universities where he taught or produce much in the way of original academic research. Pipes has served in various capacities at the Departments Of State and Defense , while his father served on the National Security Council , and he has testified to the United States Congress . He speaks French and English and can read Arabic and German. He has been married twice and has three daughters. As of January 2007, Pipes held the position of Distinguished Visiting Professor at Pepperdine University teaching a course titled "International Relations: Islam and Politics." "School of Public Policy Announces 2007 Distinguished Visiting Professor: Daniel Pipes" , University of Pepperdine. CAMPUS WATCH Pipes' think tank the , and the abuse of power over students." Students were encouraged to submit reports regarding teachers, books and Curricula . The project was accused of " McCarthyesque intimidation" of professors who criticized Israel 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. {Link without Title} {Link without Title} {Link without Title} PEACE INSTITUTE APPOINTMENT In April 2003, George W. Bush nominated Pipes for the board of the federally sponsored U.S. Institute Of Peace , on which Douglas Feith was already serving. Some questioned how Pipes made a good appointee to work at the Institute of Peace when he had previously said that no peaceful resolution is possible in many world conflicts and had written a year earlier, " {Link without Title} iplomacy rarely ends conflicts." 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 '', headed by James Zogby , 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." '', August 11 2003 Hitchens wrote 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 {Link without Title} devoted to the peaceful resolution of conflict." Hitchens concluded his opposition to Pipes' nomination by saying that Pipes "confuses scholarship with propaganda" and pursues "petty vendettas with scant regard for objectivity." Others, including Muslims, defended the appointment. Akbar Ahmed , chair of Islamic studies at American University , asked "Who is better placed to act as a bridge than the scholar of Islam?" Pakistani-American Tashbih Sayyed , editor of the '' Muslim World Today '' and the '' Pakistan Times '', called Pipes "a Cassandra . 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. Ahmed Subhy Mansour , a former visiting fellow in the human-rights program at Harvard Law School , said, "We Muslims need a thinker like Dr. Pipes, who can criticize the terrorist culture within Islam, just as I usually do." {Link without Title} Several Senators , including Ted Kennedy (D- Massachusetts ) and Christopher Dodd (D- Connecticut ), expressed opposition to the nomination and stalled a vote in Chairman Judd Gregg's (R-NH) committee, and President Bush was forced to bypass the Republican-led Senate and proceeded with a Recess Appointment on August 23 , 2003 . Pipes served until January 2005. VIEWS AND POSITIONS Pipes is an outspoken Zionist . Pipes is controversial in academia, where his Conservative positions—especially his strong Zionism and his argument that Islamism is a threat to the West —conflicts with the views of some Middle East scholars, such as John Esposito , who describes Islamist movements as political forces leading to Democratic progress. 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 always 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 . 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 " scope of the radical fundamentalist's ambition poses novel problems; and the intensity of his onslaught against the United States makes solutions urgent."[http://www.danielpipes.org/article/266 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." Four months before the September 11, 2001 Attacks , Pipes and Emerson wrote in the '' Wall Street Journal '' that Al Qaeda was "planning new attacks on the U.S." and that Iranian operatives "helped arrange advanced ... training for al Qaeda personnel in Lebanon where they learned, for example, how to destroy large buildings."[http://www.danielpipes.org/article/381 Moderate Muslims Pipes said that the American government and other powerful institutions should give priority to locating, meeting with, funding, forwarding, empowering, and celebrating those Muslims who, at personal risk, stand up and confront the totalitarians.Daniel Pipes. "Bolstering Moderate Muslims" '' New York Sun ''. April 17, 2007 Pipes suggested that radical Islam is the problem and moderate Islam is the solution. "Is it not telling that great numbers of moderate Muslims see danger where so many non-Muslims are blind? Do developments in Pakistan and Turkey not confirm my oft-repeated point that radical Islam is the problem and moderate Islam the solution? And do they not suggest that ignorant non-Muslim busybodies should get out of the way of those moderate Muslims determined to relegate Islamism to its rightful place in the dustbin of history?"Daniel Pipes. "A Million Moderate Muslims on the March" '' New York Sun ''. May 8, 2007 American Muslims In October, 2001 Pipes said, before the convention of the American Jewish Congress. " increased stature, and affluence, and enfranchisement of American Muslims...will present true dangers to American Jews." Ferguson, Barbara. [http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=59612&d=27&m=2&y=2005 Daniel Pipes Continuing His Campaign Against Muslims . Arab News. Support for Japanese Internment during World War II 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." also his article ''Japanese Internment: Why It Was a Good Idea--And the Lessons It Offers Today.''[http://hnn.us/articles/9289.html ) Pipes does not "advocate the internment of anyone today."[http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/391] Arab-Israeli conflict 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." {Link without Title} Policy toward Iraq In 1987, Pipes encouraged the United States to provide s taking up Suicide Bombing , Kurd s resuming their rebellion, and the Syria n and Iran ian governments plotting new ways to sabotage American rule. Staying in place would become too painful, leaving too humiliating." {Link without Title} Pipes was a strong backer of the ." Arafat's intentions at Oslo Writing in '' has merely adopted a flexible approach to fit adverse circumstances, saying whatever needed to be said to survive. The PLO had not a change of heart — 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." {Link without Title} On Muslims 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 criticism of many streams of the Muslim faith as expressed and practiced around the world. His emphasis has been on 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-dominated world into European countries and the United States. He has outlined obstructing factors which are intrinsic to Muslim faith 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 foreign nationals in their countries. Pipes outlines and exposes many Islamist elements within general "Muslim society" and believes that the strain between followers of Islam and the West requires rational scrutiny. First Gulf War Pipes said: "True, it was Saddam Husayn of Iraq who started the Gulf War in September 1980, but Iranian forces went on the offensive in July 1982, and it was ''. August 1989 On Europe Pipes has been heavily critical of European welfare states, which he views as a consequence of the U.S. 'taking over' the defence of Europe during the Cold War . On Iran
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Pipes suggested in his article at the ''New York Sun'' that the Iranian armed "terrorist" {Link without Title} {Link without Title} {Link without Title} {Link without Title} group known as ''. July 10, 2007 On Saudi Arabia Pipes wrote: "The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - friend or foe of America? Having been asked exactly this question on such shows as CNN's "Crossfire" and ABC's "Nightline," I've come to the conclusion that the answer is "neither." Rather, ''. May 14, 2002 Pipes also wrote: "The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's massive implication in the death of 3,000 Americans on 9/11, I argued in February, is reason for the victims and their families to consider suing it for compensation."Daniel Pipes. [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/158 "Make the Saudis Pay for Terror" '' New York Post ''. April 15, 2002 PRAISE, CRITICISM AND CONTROVERSY The '', November 21, 2001 CNN referred to him one "of the country’s leading experts" on the Middle East. In the ''Boston Globe,'' Jeff Jacoby wrote, "If Pipes's admonitions had been heeded, there might never have been a 9/11." {Link without Title} A 1984 '' Business Week '' book review by Ronald Taggiasco 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'', January 30 1984 On the other hand, a 1983 '' Washington Post '' book review by Thomas W. Lippman 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 " {Link without Title} 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'', December 11 1983 ) Another review in the ''Washington Post'' found that Pipes "professes respect for Muslims but is frequently contemptuous of them." Continued friction In January 2004, '''', foresees the end of the golden era for Jews in the United States . Pipes has had a series of confrontations with various U.S-based Islamic groups, especially the for Islamist terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas . Robert Spencer described the campaign against Pipes on the CAIR website as a "lynching." Pipes was invited to speak at the University Of Toronto in March 2005 by a new student group at the University called ''The Middle East Forum at U of T''. A letter from professors, staff and students asserted that Pipes had a "long record of Xenophobic , Racist and Sexist {Link without Title} that goes back to 1990."http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050329/PIPES29/TPNational/Toronto University officials said they would not interfere with Pipes' visit. {Link without Title} On and/or used tactics like Hitler and that he wanted to Ethnically Cleanse Muslims from the United States. {Link without Title} In the June 10 edition of the ''Friday Bulletin'' an "Apology and Retraction" appears, stating: 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." {Link without Title} {Link without Title} AWARDS AND HONORS On , March 8, 2006 He has been awarded honorary doctorates from universities in Switzerland and the United States. In May 2006 , Pipes received the Guardian Of Zion Award . '' The Forward '', a Jewish publication, named Pipes as one of America's "50 Most Influential Jews." BOOKS AND POLICY PAPERS
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