41 Facts About Daniel Pipes

Daniel Pipes was born on September 9,1949 and is an American former professor, Anti-Islam activist, and commentator on foreign policy and the Middle East.

Daniel Pipes is the president of the Middle East Forum, and publisher of its Middle East Quarterly journal.

Daniel Pipes's writing focuses on American foreign policy and the Middle East as well as criticism of Islamism.

Daniel Pipes then served as director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, before founding the Middle East Forum.

Daniel Pipes served as an adviser to Rudy Giuliani's 2008 presidential campaign.

Daniel 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.

Daniel Pipes has made claims about alleged "no-go zones" overrun by Sharia law in Europe and about US 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.

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

The son of Irene and Richard Pipes, Daniel Pipes was born into a Jewish family in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1949.

Daniel Pipes's parents had each fled German-occupied Poland with their families, and they met in the United States.

Daniel Pipes's father, Richard Pipes, was a historian at Harvard University, specializing in Russia, and Daniel Pipes grew up primarily in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area.

Daniel Pipes attended the Harvard pre-school, then received a private school education, partly abroad.

Daniel Pipes enrolled in Harvard University, where his father was a professor, in the fall of 1967.

Daniel Pipes's senior thesis was a study of Al-Ghazali and other Muslim philosophers.

Daniel Pipes wrote a book on colloquial Egyptian Arabic, published in 1983.

Daniel Pipes returned to Harvard in 1973 and, after further studies abroad, obtained a Ph.

Daniel Pipes 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.

Daniel Pipes 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.

Daniel 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.

Daniel Pipes edited its journal, the Middle East Quarterly, until 2001.

Daniel Pipes 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.

Daniel Pipes obtained the position by recess appointment and served on the board until early 2005.

Daniel Pipes's nomination was protested by Muslim groups in the US, and Democratic leaders.

Daniel Pipes has long expressed alarm about what he believes to be the dangers of "radical" or "militant Islam" to the Western world.

Daniel Pipes has praised Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in Turkey and the Sudanese thinker Mahmoud Mohamed Taha.

Daniel Pipes elaborated that he did not have the "theological background" to determine what group follows the Koran the closest and is truest to its intent.

Daniel Pipes has criticized the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which he says is an "apologist" for Hezbollah and Hamas, and has a "roster of employees and board members connected to terrorism".

Daniel 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".

Daniel 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.

Daniel 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.

In 2016, Daniel Pipes resigned from the Republican Party after it endorsed Donald Trump as its 2016 presidential candidate.

Daniel 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".

Daniel Pipes has 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".

Previously listed as a terrorist group by the US and the European Union, Daniel Pipes had long advocated a change in that listing.

Daniel Pipes had described this listing as a "sop to the mullahs".

On January 7,2008, Daniel Pipes wrote an article for FrontPage Magazine claiming that he had "confirmed" that President Obama "practiced Islam".

Daniel Pipes was included in the Southern Poverty Law Center Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists that was removed from the SPLC website after Maajid Nawaz filed a lawsuit.

Daniel Pipes has been described as a part of the counter-jihad movement, though more moderate than others.

Zachary Lockman, Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and History, wrote in 2005 that Daniel 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".

Daniel Pipes 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, criticized Daniel Pipes, arguing that Daniel Pipes pursued an intolerant agenda, was someone who "confuses scholarship with propaganda", and "pursues petty vendettas with scant regard for objectivity".