Daniel Pipes

Daniel Pipes ( born September 9, 1949 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American author, journalist and lobbyist. He is the founder and director of the Middle East Forum and Campus Watch. In the 1980s, he worked in various at the University of Chicago. Pipes represent Republican and pro-Israel theses and was also known for his criticism of Islam.

Life and professional career

Pipes is the son of Polish Jews: Irene (nee Roth) and Richard Pipes. Daniel Pipes was born in 1949 in Boston, Massachusetts. His parents fled from Poland, was cast as this in 1939 by German troops in the U.S., where they first met. His father was a historian at Harvard University, specializing in Russian and Soviet history, and Daniel Pipes grew mostly on in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Pipes completed his studies in history at Harvard in 1971 and received his doctorate in 1978. Overall, he studied for six years in other countries, including Egypt. He then taught at several universities in the U.S., including at the University of Chicago 1978 until 1982. Pipes also worked for the Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defense of the United States. He belongs to the " Special Task Force on Terrorism and Technology" of the U.S. Department of Defense.

From 1986 to 1993 Pipes was director of the conservative think tank Foreign Policy Research Institute ( FPRI ) in Philadelphia. Pipes 1990 was the founder of the Middle East Forum and Campus Watch in 2002. Today he works as Director of these organizations, the contact claims to be for U.S. interests in the Middle East and against anti-Americanism.

He is a regular columnist for the New York Sun and The Jerusalem Post. He has published, among others, in the Washington Post, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. His blog is one of the most widely read on the subjects of Islam and the Middle East. He frequently appears as a Middle East expert at the U.S. television and is invited by universities and think tanks.

2003 nominated U.S. President George W. Bush Pipes as head of the United States Institute of Peace. Once this has led to controversy and Democratic Representative refused ( filibuster ) to accept the nomination, Bush made of the law by the U.S. President ( Recess appointment ) use to fill the vacant post for the time being without Senate approval using pipes.

In 2008, he worked as a consultant for the presidential election campaign of Republican Rudolph Giuliani.

Positions

Pipes shall be deemed critics of Islam emphasizes itself but again the difference between Islam and Islamism. Latter he sees as the currently most dangerous opponent of "the West " and the free world as a whole. After the pipes is "radical Islam " at the time the dominant flow in the Islamic world. The West must support in their own interest, "moderate " Islamic movements and individuals, against Islamism show but hardness.

It occurs as a sharp critic of Islamic organizations in the U.S., especially the Council on American - Islamic Relations, which he accuses political proximity to Islamism and partly to terrorism. Pipes also claims that the majority of teachers are anti- American and anti-Israeli in the Middle East centers in the United States.

With regard to the Middle East conflict, he takes a strong pro-Israel positions and opposes political concessions Israel. It calls for the total defeat of the Palestinians, as his statement after the Palestinians otherwise the Israeli state will not recognize and want to destroy. The U.S. alliance with "moderate" regimes in the Islamic world are considered critical.

Pipes came to widespread attention during the American election campaign in 2008, in the pipes repeatedly hinted that Barack Obama could be secretly practicing Muslim and was at least in the past. Were taken, the statements including in FrontPage Magazine, NewsMax and Fox News Network. This looks Pipes by the Obama presidency confirmed, because Obama said in a speech "The United States is a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus and non- believers ," which he placed Pipes Muslims, according to striking front office.

In foreign policy, he is regarded as a hawk, which requires a hard line against Iran, including the possibility of a military strike. In February 2010, he called for Barack Obama in the column of the online world to attack Iran on to " Iranian nuclear weapons to destroy " and thus to improve his poll numbers in the U.S. to domestic and foreign policy failures.

Saudis have in his view, such a high influence to the highest government circles in the U.S., you should call the White House rather "White Tent ", where he also sees an influence of the oil lobby as the cause.

Publications (selection )

  • Conspiracy: fascination and power of the secret, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-932425-08-1
  • Miniatures: Views of Islamic and Middle Eastern Politics ( 2003), Transaction Publishers, ISBN 0-7658-0215-5
  • Militant Islam Reaches America (2002 ), W. W. Norton & Company; paperback (2003) ISBN 0-393-32531-8
  • With Abdelnour, Z. (2000), Ending Syria 's Occupation of Lebanon: The U.S. Role Middle East Forum, ISBN 0-9701484-0-2
  • In the Path of God: Islam and Political Power ( 2002), Transaction Publishers, ISBN 0-7658-0981-8
  • Muslim immigrants in the United States ( Backgrounder ) (2002 ), Center for Immigration Studies
  • The Long Shadow: Culture and Politics in the Middle East (1999), Transaction Publishers, ISBN 0-88738-220-7
  • The Hidden Hand: Middle East Fears of Conspiracy (1997), Palgrave Macmillan; paperback (1998) ISBN 0-312-17688-0
  • Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From (1997), Touchstone; paperback (1999) ISBN 0-684-87111-4
  • Syria Beyond the Peace Process ( Policy Papers, no. 41) ( 1995), Washington Institute for Near East Policy, ISBN 0-944029-64-7
  • Sandstorm (1993 ), Rowman & Littlefield, paperback (1993 ) ISBN 0-8191-8894-8
  • The Rushdie Affair: The Novel, the Ayatollah, and the West (1990 ), Transaction Publishers, paperback (2003) ISBN 0-7658-0996-6
  • Greater Syria: The History of an Ambition ( 1990), Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-506021-0
  • Slave Soldiers and Islam: The Genesis of a Military System ( 1981), Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-02447-9

Awards

In 2006, Pipes received the " Guardian of Zion Award ," at Bar-Ilan University.

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