Difference between revisions of "Center for Islamic Pluralism"

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Center for Islamic Pluralism masthead, Credit: CIP.org

Center for Islamic Pluralism is a think tank set up by Daniel Pipes and Zionist activist Stephen Schwartz. One of the founding members of the group is M. Zuhdi Jasser who also founded another group with the same agenda, American Islamic Forum for Democracy^[1].

Kemal Silay, President; professor of Ottoman and modern Turkish culture at Indiana University
Stephen Schwartz, Executive Director; associate of the Faculty of Islamic Studies, Sarajevo
Irfan al-Alawi, Western Europe Director

The group of founders includes^[2]:

Jalal Zuberi
Salim Mansur, professor of political science, University of Western Ontario, and columnist, Toronto Sun.
Tashbih Sayyed
M. Zuhdi Jasser
Khaleel Mohammed assistant professor of religious studies at San Diego State University.
Nawab Agha, American Muslim Congress
Ahmed Subhy Mansour former professor, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, author of Penalty of Apostasy: A Study of Islamic Law.

In 2012 Nina Rosenwald's Abstraction Fund gave the Center funds. Writer Max Blumenthal has dubbed Rosenwald the 'sugar mama of anti-Muslim hate'.

In 2014 the Middle East Forum gave the Center $20,000. ^[3]

Email: schwartz@islamicpluralism.org

Tel: 1.202.232.1750 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 1.202.232.1750 end_of_the_skype_highlighting.

Fax: 1.866.792.9439

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 In 2012 [[Nina Rosenwald]]'s [[Abstraction Fund]] gave the Center funds. Writer Max Blumenthal has dubbed Rosenwald the 'sugar mama of anti-Muslim hate'.
-In 2014 the [[Middle East Forum]] gave the Center $20,000.
+In 2014 the [[Middle East Forum]] gave the Center $20,000. <ref> Middle East Forum, Form 990, 2014 </ref>
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