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'''Daniel Pipes''' is considered to be director of the [[Middle East Forum]], a "neomember of the presidentially-con" (appointed board of the [[neo-conservativeU.S. Institute of Peace]]). He is director of , and a prize-winning columnist for the [[Middle East ForumNew York Sun]] and head of [[Campus WatchThe Jerusalem Post]].

His name is linked with the [[Department of Defense Special Task Force on Terrorism ==Education and Technology]]. He is an associate with the [[Washington Institute for Near East Policy]]. Pipes is the former vice chair of the [[Fulbright Board of Foreign Scholarships]].Career==

Pipes is the publisher of the "received his A.B. (1971) and Ph.D. (1978) from [[Middle East Intelligence ForumHarvard University]]" , both in history. Pipes speaks French, and reads Arabic and is German. He spent six years studying abroad, including three years in [[Egypt]], where his activites included writing a book on colloquial Egyptian Arabic published in 1983. He has been awarded a frequent media "honorary doctorates from universities in [[talking headSwitzerland]]" and regarded by some as the [[http://wwwUnited States]].googlePipes frequently discusses current issues on television, appearing on such U.com/custom?sa=GIMP%3Ared%3BT%3Ablack%3BLW%3A501%3BALC%3Ablue%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2FwwwS.informationclearinghouse.info%2Fimages%2FBAN1.gif%3BGFNT%3Agrey%3BLC%3Ablack%3BLH%3A61%3BAH%3Acenter%3BVLC%3Ared%3BS%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.informationclearinghouse.info%3BAWFID%3A5e7ae7f73a1389ac%3B&domains=www.informationclearinghouse.info&q=Daniel+Pipes&cof=Google+Search&sitesearch=wwwprograms as [[ABC World News]], [[CBS Reports]], [[Crossfire]], [[Good Morning America]], [[NewsHour with Jim Lehrer]], [[Nightline]], [[O’Reilly Factor]], and [[The Today Show]].informationclearinghouse.info He has appeared on leading television networks around the globe, including the country's leading Islamophobe[[BBC]] and [[Al-Jazeera]].

Pipes has called for a war on Islamic extremismpublished in such magazines as the [[Atlantic Monthly]], [[Commentary]], declaring in one post-Sept. 11 interview[[Foreign Affairs]], "'''What we need to do is inspire fear''[[Harper's]], [[National Review]], [[New Republic]], not affectionand [[The Weekly Standard]]." Pipes also promotes Many newspapers carry his articles, including the support [[Los Angeles Times]], [[New York Times]], [[Wall Street Journal]], [[Washington Post]], another hundred, plus hundreds of moderate Muslims against militant islamistswebsites. He criticizes organizations such as CAIR for failing to distinguish between moderate Muslims His writings have been translated into nineteen languages and islamists when labelling him as'islamophobic'he has lectured in twenty-five countries. During August recess In [[April 2003]], President Bush bypassed the Senate and appointed announced Pipes, over the objections of Democrats and others, ' nomination to the board of the government-sponsored [[United States U.S. Institute of Peace]]. The Soon afterwards, an array of leftist, Arab, and Islamist groups denounced the appointment, so [[George W. Bush|President Bush]] bypassed the Senate and went ahead with a recess appointment won't be valid until . For the next Congress is sworn infull story on this episode, which would be January 2005. [see http://www.guardiandanielpipes.coorg/usip.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-3059833,00php.html]

:For a complete biography, including many articles about Pipes, see http://www.danielpipes.org/bios/.

== SourceWatch Resources Predictions==

*[[Campus Watch]]*[[Islamic Progress Institute]]*[''Radical Islam'': Pipes has long expressed concern about the dangers of radical Islam to the West and was one of the few analysts who understood its threat well before 9/11. As early as 1985, he wrote in [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/266 Middle East ForumInsight]]*that “The scope of the radical fundamentalist’s ambition poses novel problems” for the United States. In the fall 1995 of the [[Middle East Quarterlyhttp://www.danielpipes.org/article/274 National Interest]]*, he wrote: ''Unnoticed by most Westerners, war has been unilaterally declared on Europe and the United States.''. More specifically, four months before the attack on the twin towers, Pipes and Steven Emerson wrote in [[Foreign Policy Research Institutehttp://www.danielpipes.org/article/381 The Wall Street Journal]]*that [[The National InterestAl Qaeda]]was "planning new attacks on the US" and that Iranian operatives "helped arrange advanced ... training for Al Qaeda personnel in Lebanon where they learned, for example, how to destroy large buildings."

*Robert Blecher''The Dangers of Occupying Iraq'': In April 1991, when a debate was raging about the desirability of a U.S. intervention against the Saddam Hussein regime, Pipes wrote in the [http://www.meripdanielpipes.org/meroarticle/interventions/blecher_interv209 Wall Street Journal] about the prospect of U.S. forces occupying Iraq, “with Schwartzkopf Pasha ruling from Baghdad”: “It sounds romantic, but watch out.html "Free People Will Set Like the Course of History" IntellectualsIsraelis in southern Lebanon nine years ago, American troops would find themselves quickly hated, with Shi’is taking up suicide bombing, Kurds resuming their rebellion, Democracy and the Syrian and Iranian governments plotting new ways to sabotage American Empire]rule. Staying in place would become too painful, MERIP, March 2003leaving too humiliating.” Arafat's Intentions at Oslo: Writing in the [http: "A decade after //www.danielpipes.org/article/237 Forward] within days of the signing of the 1991 Gulf warOslo Accords, Pipes observed: “Mr. Arafat has radically changed his tunemerely 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, endabling it to stay in business until Israel falters, when it can deal a death blow."” ==Evaluations== *Jonathan Wright, The [[Wall Street Journal]] calls him “an authoritative commentator on the Middle East.” [http://storywww.msnbc.com/news/660672.yahooasp MSNBC] describes him as one of the best-known “Mideast policy luminaries” and [[CNN]] has called him one “of the country’s leading experts” on the Middle East.com The [http:/news?tmpl=story&u=/nmwww.danielpipes.org/20030407article/pl_nm1129 Boston Globe] wrote that "If Pipes's admonitions had been heeded, there might never have been a 9/mideast_usa_pipes_dc_1 Bush Annoys U11.S" It was precisely after Sept. Muslim Group with Pipes Nomination]11, Reuters2001, April 7that Pipes came fully into his own, 2003explaining to a confused and deeply concerned country just who its enemy is and why.*[http://www.reutersdanielpipes.comorg/article/newsArticle142 Insight on the News] 15 April 2002 Pipes is also well-known in academia, where his generally conservative positions&mdash;especially his argument that radical Islam poses a totalitarian threat to civilized life&mdash;conflict with the views of many campus-based scholars, who are overwhelmingly on the left and are intolerant of disagreement with their views.jhtml?type == Organizations =topNews&storyID=3265810 Bush  Pipes founded the Middle East Forum (www.MEForum.org), an independent 501(c)3 organization, in 1994. Its mission is to Sidestep Muslim Groups“promote American interests” through publications, research, consulting, media outreach, and public education. The Forum publishes two journals, Senate on Scholarthe [http://www.mequarterly.org Middle East Quarterly] and the [http://www.MEIB.org Middle East Intelligence Bulletin]; it sponsors [http://www.Campus-Watch.org Campus Watch], Reutersa project to review, 13 August 2003critique, and improve Middle East studies; and it sponsors events in four cities. : '''[[Campus Watch]]''' gained much attention when it opened doors in September 2002. It is a project that identifies "Bush's expected recess appointment five problems: analytical failures, the mixing of politics with scholarship, intolerance of alternative views, apologetics, and the abuse of power over students" in the teaching of Daniel Pipes could spark Middle Eastern studies at American universities. Students are invited to submit first-hand reports regarding teachers, books and curricula. Campus Watch was immediately hailed as a needed antidote to the extremism in the academy and had a backlash from some number of scoops and successes.  == Sample Quotations == :Even as the nation monitors the Muslim Americans world within its borders more closely for signs of Islamism, it must continue, of course, to protect the civil rights of law-abiding American Muslims. Political leaders should regularly and Democrats publicly distinguish between Islam, the religion of Muslims, and Islamism, the totalitarian ideology. In addition, they should do everything in Congresstheir power to make sure that individual Muslims, mosques, who oppose his nomination and other legal institutions continue to serve on enjoy the full protection of the law. A time of crisis doesn’t change the presumption of innocence at the board core of our legal system. Police should provide extra protection for Muslims to prevent acts of vandalism against their property or their persons. <br>-- Fighting Militant Islam, Without Bias, [http://www.danielpipes.org/articles/79 City Journal], Autumn 2002 :There is no escaping the Uunfortunate 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.SMuslim schools require increased oversight to ascertain what is being taught to children. <br>--[[Institute of PeaceJerusalem Post]], which was created Jan 22, 2003. p.9 :Anti-Islamist Muslims - who wish to live modern lives, unencumbered by Congress burqas, fatwas and violent visions of jihad - are on the defensive and atomized. However eloquent, their individual voices cannot compete with the roar of militant Islam's determination, money (much of it from overseas) and violence. As a result, militant Islam, with its West-phobia and goal of world hegemony, dominates Islam in the West and appears to promote peaceful solutions many to world conflictsbe the only kind of Islam."<br>--Voices of Islam, [[New York Post]], September 23, 2003  ==Books== *[For details on Pipes's fourteen books, see http://www.yellowtimesdanielpipes.org/printbooks.php?sid=1536 Pipes nomination will cause .  :Four books deal with Islam: ''Militant Islam Reaches America'' (2002), ''The Rushdie Affair''immeasurable damage(1990),' say Muslims]'In the Path of God'' (1983), Firas Al-Atraqchiand ''Slave Soldiers and Islam'' (1981).  :Three books concern Syria: ''Syria Beyond the Peace Process'' (1996), ''Yellow TimesDamascus Courts the West''(1991), 22 August and ''Greater Syria'' (1990).  :Four deal with other Middle Eastern topics: ''The Hidden Hand'' (1996) analyses the way Arabs and Iranians see themselves and the outside world. ''The Long Shadow'' (1989) and ''Miniatures'' (2003) contain essays on varied Middle Eastern and Islamic topics. ''An Arabist's Guide to Colloquial Egyptian'' (1983) systematizes the grammar of Arabic as spoken in Egypt.  : ''Conspiracy'' (1997) establishes the importance of conspiracy theories in modern European and American politics.  :* ''Slave Soldiers and Islam'' (1981):*Fedwa Wazwaz''An Arabist's Guide to Colloquial Egyptian'' (1983):* ''In the Path of God'' (1983), "ISBN 0765809818:* ''The Long Shadow'' (1989):* ''Greater Syria'' (1990):* ''The [[Salman Rushdie|Rushdie]] Affair'' (1990):* ''Damascus Courts the West'' (1991):* ''The Hidden Hand'' (1996):* ''Conspiracy'' (1997):* ''Syria Beyond the Peace Process'' (1996):* ''Militant Islam Reaches America'' (2002), ISBN 0393052044:* ''Miniatures'' (2003)  Pipes has edited two collections of essays, ''Sandstorm'' (1993) and ''Friendly Tyrants'' (1991). He is the joint author of eleven books.  == Website== Pipes opened a personal website, www.DanielPipes.org, in December 2000. The website has a number of [http://www.danielpipes.org/about.php distinguishing features]:  :* It is the single most accessed source of specialized information on the Middle East and Islam. :* It regularly features translations into several [http://www.danielpipes.org/languages foreign languages] of Pipes’s columns. :* It includes a [http://www.commondreamsdanielpipes.org/views03blog weblog] that according to [http://0828-06www.daypop.com/blogstats?q=danielpipes.org&blogstats=Blogstats DayPop.htm Bush Appointee com] is one of the most read to and linked to on the Internet.:* It hosts a Bigot Disguised reader’s forum with 16,000 comments. Readers may sign up at http://www.danielpipes.org/subscribe.php to receive Pipes’s new materials as a Scholarthey appear. ==External links== :* [http://www.danielpipes.org Daniel Pipes’s personal website]:**[http://www.danielpipes.org/bios/ Biography]:**[http://www.danielpipes.org/books.php List of books]:* [http://meforum.org Middle East Forum]:* [http://www.campus-watch.org Campus Watch]:* [[Harvard Magazine]]: [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/2300 Militant about "Islamism"]* [[Washington Post]]: [http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/942 Middle East Studies Under Scrutiny in U.S.'']:** [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60915-2003Aug14.html ''The Truth About Daniel Pipes''], :by columnist [[Charles Krauthammer]]:* [[Los Angeles Times]]: [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/1205 “A Misdirected Attack”]:* [[Financial Times]]: [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/996 ''Common DreamsIslam's battle with a hostile world', August 28, 2003; viewed April 16, 2004']:* [[World Magazine]]: [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/1268 ''Truth on Terror'']