Update: Daniel Pipes

August 14, 2003

Source: The Associated Press

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/08/14/national1314EDT0575.DTL

On August 14, 2003 The Associated Press reported that "a broad array of Arab, religious and Muslim groups Thursday denounced the expected appointment of outspoken Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes to a federally funded peace think tank... The groups slammed Pipes as a racist, anti-Islam extremist whose appointment to the U.S. Institute of Peace would be akin to naming former Ku Klux Klan figure David Duke to a civil liberties post. And they vowed to strike back at President Bush on Election Day if he goes ahead with the appointment."