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In [[April 2003]], President Bush announced Pipes' nomination to the government-sponsored [[U.S. Institute of Peace]]. 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. For the full story on this episode, see http://www.danielpipes.org/usip.php.
Pipes He has taught at the [[University of Chicago]], [[Harvard University]], and the [[U.S. Naval War College]]. He has served in various capacities at the [[Department of State|Departments of State ]] and [[Department of Defense|Defense]], including vice chairman of the presidentially-appointed Fulbright Board of Foreign Scholarships. He sits on five editorial boards, has testified before many congressional committees, and has worked on four presidential campaigns. He is listed in [[Who's Who in America]] and [[Who's Who in the World]].
:For a complete biography, including many articles about Pipes, see http://www.danielpipes.org/bios/.==Praise and controversy==
==Predictions== The ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' has called Pipes "an authoritative commentator on the Middle East." [[MSNBC]] described him as one of the best-known "Mideast policy luminaries" [http://www.msnbc.com/news/660672.asp]. [[CNN]] referred to him one "of the country’s leading experts" on the Middle East. The ''Boston Globe'' wrote, "If Pipes's admonitions had been heeded, there might never have been a 9/11." [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/1129]
''The Dangers of Occupying Iraq'': In April 1991, when a debate This incident was raging about the desirability latest in the series of a confrontations Pipes has had with various U.S. intervention against the Saddam Hussein regime-based Islamic groups, Pipes wrote in especially the [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/209 Wall Street Journal[Council on American-Islamic Relations]] about the prospect of U(CAIR).S. forces occupying IraqCAIR maintains that Pipes is an anti-Islamic bigot, “with Schwartzkopf Pasha ruling from Baghdad”: “It sounds romantic, but watch out. Like the Israelis while Pipes in southern Lebanon nine years ago, American troops would find themselves quickly hated, with Shi’is taking up suicide bombing, Kurds resuming their rebellion, turn charges that CAIR is an apologist for Islamist terrorist groups like [[Hezbollah]] and the Syrian and Iranian governments plotting new ways to sabotage American rule. Staying in place would become too painful, leaving too humiliating[[Hamas]] (see external links).”
Arafat's Intentions at Oslo: Writing Pipes is also controversial in the academia, where his [[neoconservative]] positions—especially his strong support for [[Israel]] and his argument that [[http://www.danielpipes.org/article/237 ForwardIslamism]] within days of the signing of the Oslo Accords, Pipes observed: “Mr. Arafat has merely adopted is a flexible approach threat 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 West]]—conflicts with Israel represents a lease on life for the PLOviews of some Middle East studies scholars, endabling it such as [[John Esposito]] who describes Islamist movements as political forces leading to stay in business until Israel faltersdemocratic progress. Pipes was also criticized by [[Edward Said]], when it can deal a death blowcritic of [[Orientalism|Orientalist]] scholarship.”
:Four books deal with === Radical Islam: ''Militant === Pipes has long expressed concern about the supposed danger of radical Islam Reaches Americato the Western world. In [[1985]], he wrote in '' (2002), Middle East Insight''that "The Rushdie Affair'' (1990), '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 Path fall [[1995]] issue of God'' (1983)National Interest'', he wrote: "Unnoticed by most Westerners, war has been unilaterally declared on Europe and the United States." [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/274] Four months before the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]], Pipes and American investigative journalist [[Steven Emerson]] wrote in the ''Slave Soldiers and Islam[[Wall Street Journal]]'' (1981)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]
:Three books concern Syria: ===Arab-Israeli conflict===He wrote in ''Syria Beyond the Peace ProcessCommentary'' (1996)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, ''Damascus Courts to those who ask why the West'' (1991)Palestinians must be deprived of a state, the answer is simple: grant them one and ''Greater Syria'' (1990)you set in motion a chain of events that will lead either to its extinction or the extinction of Israel." [http://www.danielpipes. org/article/194]
:Four deal with other Middle Eastern topics: ===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 ''The Hidden HandWall Street Journal'' (1996) analyses about the way Arabs and Iranians see themselves and the outside worldprospect of U.S. forces occupying Iraq, "with Schwartzkopf Pasha ruling from Baghdad": "It sounds romantic, but watch out. Like the Israelis in southern Lebanon nine years ago, American troops would find themselves quickly hated, with [[Shi''The Long Shadow'' (1989) a]]s taking up [[suicide bombing]], [[Kurd]]s resuming their rebellion, and ''Miniatures'' (2003) contain essays on varied Middle Eastern the [[Syria]]n and Islamic topics[[Iran]]ian governments plotting new ways to sabotage American rule. ''An Arabist's Guide to Colloquial Egyptian'' (1983) systematizes the grammar of Arabic as spoken Staying in Egyptplace would become too painful, leaving too humiliating." [http://www. danielpipes.org/article/209]
: ===Arafat's Intentions at Oslo===Writing in the ''ConspiracyForward'' (1997) establishes within days of the signing of the importance [[Oslo Accords]], Pipes observed: "Mr. [[Yasser Arafat | Arafat]] 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 conspiracy theories policy. . . . the deal with Israel represents a lease on life for the PLO, enabling it to stay in modern European and American politicsbusiness until Israel falters, when it can deal a death blow." [http://www.danielpipes. org/article/237]
:* ''Slave Soldiers and Islam'' (1981):* ''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) ==Organizations==
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]: ==Publications==
:* It is Books concerning Islam**''Militant Islam Reaches America'' (2002), ISBN 0393052044**''The Rushdie Affair'' (1990)**''In the single most accessed source Path of specialized information on the Middle East God'' (1983), ISBN 0765809818**''Slave Soldiers and Islam. '' (1981) *Books concerning Syria**''Syria Beyond the Peace Process'' (1996)**''Damascus Courts the West'' (1991)**''Greater Syria'' (1990) *Books concerning other topics**''The Hidden Hand'' (1996) **''The Long Shadow'' (1989) :* It regularly features translations into several [http://www.danielpipes.org/languages foreign languages] of Pipes’s columns. *''Miniatures'' (2003) :* It includes a *''An [http://www.danielpipes.org/blog weblog[Arabist] that according to [http://www.daypop.com/blogstats?q=danielpipes.org&blogstats=Blogstats DayPop.com] is one of the most read to and linked 's Guide to on Colloquial Egyptian'' (1983) systematizes the Internetgrammar of Arabic as spoken in Egypt. :* It hosts a reader’s forum with 16,000 comments*''Conspiracy'' (1997) discusses conspiracy theories in modern European and American politics. Readers may sign up at http://wwwPipes has also edited two collections of essays, ''Sandstorm'' (1993) and ''Friendly Tyrants'' (1991).danielpipes.org/subscribe.php to receive Pipes’s new materials as they appearHe is the joint author of eleven books.
:* [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]* [http://www.danielpipes.org/usip.php Controversy surrounding Pipes' appointment to the board of the US Institute of Peace]* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A60915-2003Aug14¬Found=true Protests against Pipes' appointment to the USIP]
* [[Washington Post]]: [http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/942 Middle East Studies Under Scrutiny in U.S.'']
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'''Daniel Pipes ''' is director of the [[Middle East Forum]], a member of the presidentially-appointed board of the [[U.S. Institute of Peace]], and a prize-winning columnist for the ''[[New York Sun]] '' and ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]''. Pipes discusses terrorism and Middle East affairs on television, frequently appearing on American network television, including ''[[ABC World News Tonight]]'', ''CBS Reports'', ''[[Crossfire]]'', ''[[Good Morning America]]'', ''[[NewsHour with Jim Lehrer]]'', ''[[Nightline]]'', ''[[The O'Reilly Factor]]'', and ''[[The Today Show]]''. He has also appeared on the ''[[BBC]]'' and ''[[Al-Jazeera]]'', and has published in the ''[[Atlantic Monthly]]'', ''[[Commentary]]'', ''[[Foreign Affairs]]'', ''[[Harper's]]'', ''[[National Review]]'', ''[[New Republic]]'', ''[[Policy Review]]'' and ''[[The Weekly Standard]]''. Many newspapers carry his articles, including the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', ''[[New York Times]]'', ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'', and ''[[Washington Post]]'', as do hundreds of websites. His writings have been translated into nineteen languages and he has lectured in twenty-five countries.
==Education and Career==
Pipes has published in such magazines as the [[Atlantic Monthly]], [[Commentary]], [[Foreign Affairs]], [[Harper's]], [[National Review]], [[New Republic]], and [[The Weekly Standard]]. Many newspapers carry his articles, including the [[Los Angeles Times]], [[New York Times]], [[Wall Street Journal]], [[Washington Post]], another hundred, plus hundreds of websites. His writings have been translated into nineteen languages and he has lectured in twenty-five countries.
A [[1983]] ''Radical Islam[[Washington Post]]'': book review noted that Pipes has long expressed concern about the dangers of radical Islam displays "a disturbing hostility to the West and was one of the few analysts who understood its threat well before 9/11contemporary Muslims . As early as 1985, he wrote in [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/266 Middle East Insight] that “The scope he professes respect for Muslims but is frequently contemptuous of the radical fundamentalist’s ambition poses novel problems” for the United Statesthem". In It said the fall 1995 book "is marred by exaggerations, inconsistencies, and evidence of hostility to the [http:subject" (''Washington Post'', 12/11/www83).danielpipes.org/article/274 National Interest], he wrote: ''Unnoticed by most Westerners, war has been unilaterally declared on Europe and the United States.Left Turn''magazine described Pipes as a "leading anti-Muslim hate propagandist". More specifically, four months before the attack on the twin towers, Pipes and Steven Emerson wrote in [http://www.danielpipesleftturn.org/articleArticles/381 The Wall Street JournalViewer.aspx?id=453&type=w] that [[Al 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."
In [[August 2003]], news leaked of Pipes''Arabimminent appointment to the U.S. government-Israeli conflict'': He wrote in sponsored [[http://wwwU.danielpipesS.org/article/194 CommentaryInstitute of Peace]] in April 1990: “there can be either an Israel or . Soon afterwards, a Palestinebroad array of Arab-American, American Muslim, but not both. To think that two states can stably and peacefully coexist in the small territory between the Jordan River and other groups vehemently denounced the Mediterranean Sea is to be either naïve or duplicitous. If the last seventy years teach anythingappointment, it is claiming that there can be only one state west of the Jordan RiverPipes was a racist, [[Islamophobia|anti-Islamic]] extremist. ThereforeSeveral [[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[United States Senate|senators]], including [[Edward Kennedy|Ted Kennedy]] (D-[[Massachusetts]]) and [[Christopher Dodd]] (D-[[Connecticut]]), expressed opposition to those who ask why the Palestinians must be deprived of nomination and delayed a statecommittee vote on it, though [[George W. Bush|President Bush]] bypassed the answer is simple: grant them one Senate and you set in motion proceeded with a chain of events that will lead either to its extinction or the extinction of Israelrecess appointment.”
==EvaluationsPredictions== The [[Wall Street Journal]] calls him “an authoritative commentator on the Middle East.” [http://www.msnbc.com/news/660672.asp 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. The [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/1129 Boston Globe] wrote that "If Pipes's admonitions had been heeded, there might never have been a 9/11." It was precisely after Sept. 11, 2001, that Pipes came fully into his own, explaining to a confused and deeply concerned country just who its enemy is and why. [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/142 Insight on the News] 15 April 2002 Pipes is also well-known in academia, where his generally conservative positions—especially his argument that radical Islam poses a totalitarian threat to civilized life—conflict with the views of many campus-based scholars, who are overwhelmingly on the left and are intolerant of disagreement with their views. == Organizations == Pipes founded the Middle East Forum (www.MEForum.org), an independent 501(c)3 organization, in 1994. Its mission is to “promote American interests” through publications, research, consulting, media outreach, and public education. The Forum publishes two journals, the [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], a project to review, critique, 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 "'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 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 number of scoops and successes. == Sample Quotations == :Even as the nation monitors the Muslim 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 publicly distinguish between Islam, the religion of Muslims, and Islamism, the totalitarian ideology. In addition, they should do everything in their power to make sure that individual Muslims, mosques, and other legal institutions continue to enjoy the full protection of the law. A time of crisis doesn’t change the presumption of innocence at the 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 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.<br>--[[Jerusalem Post]], Jan 22, 2003. p.9 :Anti-Islamist Muslims - who wish to live modern lives, unencumbered by 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 many to be 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.danielpipes.org/books.php.
Pipes has edited founded the Middle East Forum [http:www.MEForum.org], an independent 501(c)3 organization, in 1994. Its stated mission is to “promote American interests” through publications, research, consulting, media outreach, and public education. The Forum publishes two collections of essaysjournals, the ''SandstormMiddle East Quarterly'' (1993) [http://www.mequarterly.org] and the ''Friendly TyrantsMiddle East Intelligence Bulletin'' (1991)[http://www.MEIB. He is the joint author of eleven booksorg] and sponsors events in four cities.
The Middle East Forum sparked a controversy in September 2002 by establishing a web site called [[Campus Watch]] that claims to identify "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 Middle Eastern studies at American universities. Students are encouraged to submit reports regarding teachers, books and curricula.Campus Watch was accused of "[[McCarthyism#McCarthyism_as_a_generic_concept|McCarthyesque]] intimidation" against professors expressing criticism of Israel, not only by the listed academics but by more than 100 others who demanded to be listed as well. Campus Watch subsequently removed the "McCarthyite blacklist" from their website. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file== Website==/chronicle/archive/2002/09/28/MN227890.DTL] [http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/416] [http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/209]
==External links==
* [[Harvard Magazine]]: [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/2300 Militant about "Islamism"]
:** [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60915-2003Aug14.html ''The Truth About Daniel Pipes''], :by columnist [[Charles Krauthammer]]
* [[Washington Post]]:[http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/942 ''Middle East Studies Under Scrutiny in U.S.'']* [http://www.mpac.org/home_article_display.aspx?ITEM=491 ''The Truth About Daniel Pipes''], from the Muslim Public Affairs Council* [[Los Angeles Times]]: [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/1205 “A Misdirected Attack”]:* [[Financial Times]]: [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/996 ''Islam's battle with a hostile world'']* [http://slate.msn.com/id/2086844 Pipes the Propagandist] * [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/1268 ''Truth on Terror''] in World Magazine* [http://www.cair-net.org/misc/people/daniel_pipes.html ''WHO IS DANIEL PIPES?''] by [[Council on American-Islamic Relations|CAIR]]* [http://www.danielpipes.org/cair.php ''Reply to CAIR's Attack on Daniel Pipes''] Pipes' response* [[World Magazine]]: [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/1268 ''Truth on Terror''] '''NOTE:''' Portions of this article are taken from a [[w:Daniel Pipes|corresponding article]] on Wikipedia. [[Category:Historians|Pipes, Daniel]]
