In a piece entitled, "The Muslims are coming! The Muslims are coming!" (National Review, November 19, 1990), Pipes warns about the danger of an influx of Muslim immigrants to the West: "All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most. Fears of a Muslim influx have more substance than the worry about jihad. West European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and not exactly maintaining Germanic standards of hygiene. Muslim immigrants bring with them a chauvinism that augurs badly for their integration into the mainstream of the European societies." Pipes also said: "The increased stature and affluence and enfranchisement of American Muslims will present true danger to American Jews" (American Jewish Convention, October 21, 2001). Pipes is insinuating that Muslim Americans' democratic right to vote poses a danger to the Jews!

Recently Pipes co-authored an article on Muslim immigrants in Denmark, whom he characterised as "being parasites on the society, being disproportionately being engaged in criminal behaviour, 'having unacceptable customs,' seeking to take over the country and being rapists." Pipes further warns that Muslim converts are a serious problem and in a June 2000 article he appears to approvingly quote a Ku Klux Klan leader who in 1959 outrageously observed that "if we do not fail to stop the Muslims now, the sixteen million niggers of America will soon become Muslims and you will never be able to stop them." As a result of his contempt for the culture of Muslims and his obsessive fear of their attitudes, it is no surprise that Pipes warns the government agencies to beware of Muslims. Just this year he wrote: "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 connection to terrorism, as do Muslim chaplains in prisons and armed forces. Muslim visitors and immigrants must undergo additional background checks. Mosques require scrutiny beyond that applied to churches, synagogues and temples."

Pipes also maintains a neo-McCarthyte website, "Campus Watch" (www.campuswatch.com) which boasts a "dossier of professors"; a collection of complaints from mostly Jewish students against professors and academic institutions deemed to be biased in favour of Islam, Muslims and Palestinians, and against Israel. Pipes, who is Jewish, labels as "moderate Muslim," the author of a hate website, "Eradicate Islam," whose homepage declares: "This site is created by ex-Muslims to help Muslims leave Islam. Islam is a lie and this site is the proof. The truth is that Islam is not a religion of peace. It is a religion of hate, of terror and war. The only way to confront Islamic terrorism is to eradicate Islam." The owner of the hate website, who Pipes is so fond of quoting frequently, is also a signatory to the "Statement of Muslim Support for Pipes Appointment to USIP Board," published on a pro-Pipes website. There is one little problem here: how can "ex-Muslims" be giving "Muslim support" for Pipes?

The pro-Israeli lobby, American Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC) entered the fray and pressed hard for Pipes' nomination. After reviewing Dr. Pipes' record, however, some Senators became so troubled that they felt compelled to publicly express their concern. Massachusetts's Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy led the charge. He noted that the statements and writings of Pipes were the opposite of the principles of USIP. Senator Tom Harkin (Democrat, Iowa), one of the founders of USIP, was outraged: "Some people call Pipes a scholar. But this is not the kind of person you want on USIP. My state has the very first mosque ever built in the U.S., in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Muslims are a vibrant part of our diverse community."

Quoting Pipes, "The increased stature and affluence and enfranchisement of American Muslims will present true dangers to American Jews," an exasperated Senator Harkin said: "Enfranchisement? Mr. Pipes is talking about voting! Mr. Pipes' fears of Muslim enfranchisement fall on deaf ears when it comes to this Senator..if Mr. Pipes' views were true, then what we would have in Iowa would be exactly the opposite of what we have today…

American Muslims who are lawyers, union members, doctors. Muslims who are thoroughly Americanised. When Mr. Pipes talks about Muslims being funny looking, maintaining a different standard of hygiene, I don't know why we are even considering this person, Mr. Chairman (of the Senate Committee)!"

Opposition also came from Connecticut's Democratic Senator: "The purpose of the USIP is to seek solutions to conflict without recourse to violence. Mr. Pipes writes that, diplomacy (with Muslim nations) rarely ends conflicts. Mr. Pipes will not be able to direct colleagues in the mission of the USIP." Rhode Island's Republican Senator Jim Jeffords also opposed Pipes' nomination. With the nomination stalled in the Senate, Arab Americans turned their attention to the White House, appealing to the President to withdraw Pipes' nomination, noting that Pipes' views ran counter to the President's own efforts to promote respect for Islam and for Arab and Muslim American communities. The President ignored their plea and gave the controversial nominee what is known as a "recess appointment," putting him on the Institute's Board against the wishes of the Senate, when the Senate is in recess.

The American Jewish lobby has once again demonstrated that they own the President, and have the power to put even a proven thug in a position of power bypassing Senate's approval, if that's what it takes. The charge for the nomination of Pipes was led by ultra Zionist Mr. Charles Krauthammer of TIME magazine and The Washington Post. In an op-ed article in the Post on August 14, Mr. Krauthammer distorted facts and misled unsuspecting Americans into believing that the bigot Pipes is a victim! He accused the four Senators who opposed Pipes -- Kennedy, Harkin, Dodd and Jeffords -- of "bigotry and extremism!"

Daniel Pipes is no "Islamic scholar," as Krauthammer so lovingly falsifies. Pipes is a racist hoodlum, an Islam-basher of the extreme kind, unworthy to be on the board of directors of the USIP. Instead of castigating the four Senators who courageously opposed Pipes' nomination as Krauthammer does, average Americans should commend the Senators for demonstrating courage to stand up to the neocon Zionist lobby, something President Bush is unwilling or unable to do. It is no surprise that Krauthammer promotes a fellow neocon Zionist extremist like Daniel Pipes. What is disturbing is that Krauthammer is propagating his lies and sponsoring an unrepentant racist through the pages of The Washington Post. President Bush, too, seems to have forgotten that in the 2000 Presidential election, Muslim and Arab Americans, three times as numerous as Jewish Americans, voted overwhelmingly for him, whereas the Jewish Americans voted overwhelmingly for Al Gore. If the President believes that he can insult and work against the interest of Arab and Muslim Americans and will still be the beneficiary of their votes come the 2004 Presidential election, he must be living in a fool's paradise!