Sarah Scaife Foundation
The Sarah Scaife Foundation’s “grant program is primarily directed toward public policy programs that address major domestic and international issues.” In early 2017, the Foundation had a reported “$708 million in assets.” The David Horowitz Freedom Center, whose president believes Islam “is a sick death cult,” was granted $1.2 million over a six-year period. Cliff […]
Islamophobia in the 2014 Elections
The most significant anti-Islam action of the 2014 midterm election, Alabama’s Amendment 1, was approved by voters. Alabama is the eighth state to approve a law intended to vilify Islam. The measure was inspired by Islamophobe David Yerushalmi’s American Laws for American Courts legislation, which stigmatizes Muslims as a group from which the US needs […]
American Islamic Leadership Coalition
As of October 2017, AILC remains on the AIFD website, though Jasser seems to have moved on to his new credibility vehicle, the Muslim Reform Movement. Formed in 2010, the American Islamic Leadership Coalition appears to exist only as a credibility vehicle for Zuhdi Jasser and his American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD). The coalition’s […]
Phyllis Schlafly
Phyliss Schlafly is the founder and president of The Eagle Forum, and worries about Muslim immigrants “bringing in a bunch of wives who will now go on our welfare”. She has a history of making bigoted comments. On Schlafly’s October 15th, 2014 Eagle Forum Live radio program, Islamophobe David Horowitz said of Ferguson, Mo. protesters […]
American Public Policy Alliance
The American Public Policy Alliance is an advocacy organization whose work has focused primarily on pushing for legislation which demonizes Islam. Specifically, APPA is responsible for David Yerushalmi’s “American Laws for American Courts” template of anti-Islam legislation which has been considered by legislators across the nation. On its website, APPA identifies “foreign laws and foreign […]
Tom Trento
“Dear Muslims of the Levant, We Americans know you enjoy your oil-drenched lives of crass debauchery and fake religiosity.” This is a quote reportedly straight from notorious anti-Muslim figure Tom Trento. Thomas Anthony Trento, better known as Tom Trento, is an American conservative figurehead who has a deep-rooted professional history in anti-Muslim and Islamophobic rhetoric. He is the founder […]
Bill Maher
Bill Maher is a commentator and comedian who hosts the political satire talk show Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO. Maher stirred controversy on his October 3rd, 2014 broadcast when he claimed that “liberal” ideologies – like freedom of speech, freedom of religion, marriage equality, and gender equity – were incompatible with Islam. Maher […]
Steven Emerson
Steven Emerson is the founder and executive director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT), a hate group that curates and proliferates anti-Muslim propaganda and prejudiced content.
Shalom Lewis
Rabbi Shalom Lewis is a cleric at the Congregation Etz Chaim synagogue in Marietta, Georgia. Etz Chaim’s website states Lewis “generates a caring warmth”, but his hateful speech about Islam is alarming and barbaric. In October 2014, Lewis sermonized that Muslims “are here” and a “holy crusade” to “exterminate [Islam] utterly and absolutely” is required. […]
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a former Dutch politician and a current anti-Islam figure residing in the United States. She founded the Ayaan Hirsi Ali Foundation in 2007. According to the AHA Foundation’s website, the organization fights “the continued oppression of women and girls in the US committed in the name of religion and culture”. CAIR […]