A Cranky Think Tank, a Creepy Think Tank, What about the Triple K………….
“Pipes runs theMiddle East Forum, an organization which answers the question “What if the John Birch Society had its own think tank?” Pipes also oversees Campus Watch, a project that keeps tabs on scholars it deems to be insufficiently pro-Israel. Last summer Pipes spearheaded a campaign against the Khalil Gibran International Academy in New York, a public school focused on Arab culture and language. The campaign eventually caused the resignation of the school’s principal, Debbie Almontaser. Pipes based his hostility to the school on what he called “the basic problems implicit in an Arabic-language school: the tendency to Islamist and Arabist content and proselytizing.” Needless to say, Pipes offered no evidence for that claim. In keeping with his stated belief that Arab- and Muslim-Americans deserve to be subjected to “special scrutiny,” Pipes apparently thinks the question of whether Barack Obama ever practiced Islam as a child is so important to the future of the American republic that, since December, he has penned three different articles on that subject, always making sure to apply a thin veneer of “scholarly rigor” over what is in fact nothing more than an attempt to smear by insinuation and innuendo. Despicable. But no, Daniel Pipes is no crank. That would be an insult to cranks……...” Think Progress
Actually I have looked into that recently, and I did not see even a veneer of ‘scholarly rigor”. I wonder if the KKK has its own think tank? I don’t believe they had think tanks during the Third Reich either, but I wonder what they would have looked like, if they had any. But they did have one Josef Goebbels, a walking, hissing, creepy, think tank, who did not even have a website. I can see what it would look like, had he any.
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