Stephen Schwartz
Stephen Schwartz is a close associate of Daniel Pipes with whom he founded the think tank, Center for Islamic Pluralism (CIP).[1] The Center for Islamic Pluralism describes itself as "a think tank that challenges the dominance of American Muslim life by militant Islamist groups." It says its mission is to
- Educate the broader American public about the reality of moderate Islam and the threat to moderate Muslims and non-Muslim Americans represented by militant, political, radical, and adversarial tendencies.[2]
In December 2004 he was touring the US with Husain Haqqani, a neoconservative-connected Pakistani, in support of a think tank by the name of Institute for Islamic Progress and Peace (IIPP).[3] It is not clear, however, whether CIP and IIPP, both set up by Daniel Pipes, are one and the same.
A brief biographical note on the FrontPage website describes him as "a vociferous critic of Wahhabism[1][2][3], Schwartz is a frequent contributor to the National Review, the Weekly Standard, FrontPage, and other conservative publications."[4]
On 6 June 2003, Schwartz participated in a programme at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies on "Saudi Arabia: Friend or Foe?".
Affiliations
- Institute for Islamic Progress and Peace, Executive Director
- Center for Islamic Pluralism, Executive Director
- Jamestown Foundation, Terrorologist [5].
- Family Security Matters, contributing editor [6]
- Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Senior Policy Analyst
- MEMRI, Schwartz uses their material.
- Tech Central Station, contributor
Published Works
- Stephen Schwartz, The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa'ud from Tradition to Terror, Doubleday, October 2002. ISBN 0385506929
External Links
- "Stephen Schwartz", Center for Islamic Pluralism, accessed May 2005.
- Search results for Schwartz at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.
- Schwartz's biography on the website of the Jamestown Foundation.
Articles
- "From Munis to Meese: Left Communism or State Department Surrealism" 1993 article by Kevin Keating (aka "Keith Sorel").
- "Neo-conservatism and Stephen Schwartz: the further adventures of an obituary writer" 2003 article also by Kevin Keating.
- Schwartz's FrontPage Magazine articles.
- Kathryn Jean Lopez, "The Good & the Bad: Stephen Schwartz on Islam and Wahhabism", National Review Online, November 18, 2002.
- Michael Doran, "Fighting Faith: 'The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa'ud From Tradition to Terror' by Stephen Schwartz", Washington Post, December 22, 2002.
- Clifford Geertz, "Which Way to Mecca? Part II", New York Review of Books, Volume 50, Number 11, July 3, 2003.
Notes
- ↑ Home page, Center for Islamic Pluralism website, accessed 3 September 2009
- ↑ Center for Islamic Pluralism CIP Washington, DC, IntoIslam website, accessed 3 September 2009
- ↑ Muslim majority is tired of extremists, Cleveland Jewish News, February 12, 2004, accessed 3 Sept 2009
