Center for Islamic Pluralism
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].
Contents
Principals
- 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.
Donors
In 2012 Nina Rosenwald's Abstraction Fund gave the Center funds. Writer Max Blumenthal has dubbed Rosenwald the 'sugar mama of anti-Muslim hate'. It received $10,000 from the Abstraction Fund in 2014. [3]
In 2014 the Middle East Forum gave the Center $20,000. [4]
Institutional links
Contact, References and Resources
Contact
- Website: www.islamicpluralism.org
- 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
Resources
- Call for Moderation Sparks tension, Philadelphia Inquirer, 3 January 2006
