Daniel Pipes only has Obama’s best interests at heart when he advises bombing Iran, you see.
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aziz
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johnpi
Daniel Pipes: Obama can ‘save’ his presidency by bombing Iran.
Neoconservative scholar-activist Daniel Pipes has a new article on the leading conservative website National Review Online, in which he suggests that President Obama can “save” his presidency…by bombing Iran.
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johnpi
Daniel Pipes steps out of the closet… as an Islamophobe.
Eli Clifton writes that Pipes threw over any shred of remaining credibility he may have had as a serious commentator on Mideast affairs with his latest column in National Review about Geert Wilders.
For years, Pipes has denied accusations that his columns have espoused Islamophobic rhetoric, but his recent column in the National Review goes out of its way not just to endorse Geert Wilders, but also to explicitly praise anti-Muslim statements made by Wilders.
In the column, Pipes admires Wilders for asserting that ‘Islam is the problem, not just a virulent version of it called Islamism.’
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thabet
The double standards of Daniel Pipes (which are not surprising).
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johnpi
Who would Daniel Pipes vote for in the Iranian election?
“I’m sometimes asked who I would vote for if I were enfranchised in this election, and I think that, with due hesitance, I would vote for Ahmadinejad.”
Daniel Luban explains:
A more moderate president would threaten to puncture the hysterical and apocalyptic atmosphere in which discussion of the Iranian nuclear program is currently conducted.
And then there is this:
Also of related interest is the right’s angry reaction to the release of Roxana Saberi — on display, for example, in this James Kirchick monologue. From the hawks’ perspective, of course, the ideal outcome politically speaking would have been for Iran to execute Saberi, preferably in the most brutal and medieval fashion possible.
Typical neocons, expressing a fervent desire for everything to get worse. I just can’t trust these guys to run the country. If they knew of a pending terrorist attack, would they stop it, or let it happen because of all the opportunities it would create to advance their agenda?
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johnpi
Specter cancels appearance at ‘Islamist lawfare’ conference.
ThinkProgress spoke to one of the senator’s staffers, who cited a “scheduling conflict.” “We canceled this event last week, Tuesday or Wednesday.” (The Council on American-Islamic Relations notes that as recently as yesterday, Specter was still listed as a speaker in media schedules for the event, although he is not listed on the materials at the conference today.)
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johnpi
Arlen Specter falls for Daniel Pipes’ excretable “Islamist lawfare” project, which is an effort to limit the ability of US muslims and their advocacy groups’ abilities to resort to the legal system to defend themselves. I posted about this earlier here.
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johnpi
I’m disappointed in Howard M. Friedman for adding Smearcasting hate-monger Daniel Pipes’ new website on “Islamic lawfare” called “The Legal Project” to his resources section.
The goals of this “project” seem to be to provide a slush fund and free legal services to people or institutions that are sued by Muslims or Muslim advocates. One of the cases cited as a ‘problem’ was the defamation lawsuit against The David Project and it’s loose group of associates, who attempted to prevent Boston Muslims from building their own mosque, with the help of Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby.
Generally, Friedman has a pretty good compass for what to give attention to and what to ignore.
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richard
You know how bad things are among Islamophobes, when one Muslim-hater says he’s better than another because he doesn’t hate the religion as much as the other guy. This is the case with Daniel Pipes who spoke at an Israeli conference of far-right “anti-jihadis” and noted that he’s actually more “moderate” in his anti-Muslim position because Geert Wilders thinks there’s no such thing as a “moderate” Muslim, while he, Pipes, thinks there is.
For more on this wild collqouy, check this out.
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muse
The story of Debbie Almontaser, ex-principal and founder of the Khalil Gibran International Academy in Brooklyn, NY. An example of how even working through the system can earn you a label of a jihadist (albeit a “soft” one).
