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Daniel Pipes

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    (September 9, 1949- )
    Born in Boston, Massachusetts
    Historian and political commentator
    Founded the Middle East Forum (1990) and Campus Watch (2002)
    Wrote 'Slave Soldiers and Islam' (1981), 'The Rushdie Affair' (1990), 'Sandstorm' (1993), 'Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From' (1997), 'The Long Shadow: Culture and Politics in the Middle East' (1999), 'In the Path of God: Islam and Political Power' (2002) and 'Militant Islam Reaches America' (2002)

Why he might be annoying:

    He has been accused of using Campus Watch to try to blacklist professors who criticize Israel.
    He wrote about Muslims, 'Western European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and maintaining different standards of hygiene.'
    He defended the internment of Japanese-American citizens during World War II.
    He called Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison a stealth threat to America who is more dangerous than al-Qaeda.
    He claimed without evidence that Barack Obama is a secret Muslim.
    After six Muslim women won beauty pageants in a five year period, he claimed it was the result of affirmative action.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He wrote that al-Qaeda was 'planning new attacks on the US' four months before 9/11.
    He said about his comments on Muslims in Europe, 'In retrospect, I should either have put the words 'brown-skinned peoples' and 'strange foods' in quotation marks or made it clearer that I was explaining European attitudes rather than my own.'
    During the Danish Muhammad cartoons controversy, he wrote that the key issue is whether 'the West will stand up for its customs and mores, including freedom of speech,' including the 'right to insult and blasphemy.'
    He wrote, 'It’s a mistake to blame Islam, a religion 14 centuries old, for the evil that should be ascribed to militant Islam, a totalitarian ideology less than a century old.'

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 12 Votes: 91.67% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 10 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 28 Votes: 57.14% Annoying