Allen West
Allen West is a former Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida. In 2015, he left his position at Pajamas Media after an altercation with a female staffer during which West “called her a ‘Jewish American princess’ while telling her to ‘shut up.’” Shortly after, West authored a blog post in which […]
2013 Anti-Islam Legislation
(This is a supplement to the “Anti-Islam Legislation” section of CAIR’s “Legislating Fear: Islamophobia and its Impact in the United States 2011-2012” September 2014. Full citations are available in the report’s pdf.) In 2013, 36 bills or amendments designed to vilify Islamic religious practices were introduced in the legislatures of 16 states. Party of the […]
Wafa Sultan
Wafa Sultan is a board member of Former Muslims United. She is on record stating, “Believe me, personally, I don`t believe Islam really can be reformed unless we recreate a totally new belief system and keep the name.” She later added, “I don`t see any difference between radical Islam and regular Islam…You cannot be American […]
Peter King
Peter King is a former U.S. House representative from New York who has a history of promoting Islamophobic and anti-Muslim narratives. During his tenure, King utilized his position of power in Congress in a manner that discriminated against and adversely affected the American Muslim community – most infamously his congressional hearings on Muslim ‘radicalization.’
Dave Agema
Introduction Dave Agema is a former Michigan state representative who served as majority caucus chair as a Republican party member. Agema was elected as the national committeeman from Michigan to the Republican National Committee (RNC) in May 2012. In early 2015, the RNC’s executive committee censured Agema and asked Michigan Republicans “to investigate a means […]
Glenn Beck
Beck is a nationally recognized conservative political commentator. He is currently the host of The Glenn Beck Program on The Blaze. In 2013, Beck implied that Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-Minn.) failed run for President was under investigation because, “We have been sold to radical Islam.” Bachmann had previously led a campaign falsely alleging that many […]
Brian Kilmeade
Brian Kilmeade is a commentator on Fox News Channel. In September 2013, Kilmeade attempted to link the phrase Allahu Akbar, which means ”God is Great,” to terrorism. After showing Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) video of a rocket attack on a Syrian city, Kilmeade said he had “a problem with helping those people screaming that after […]
Mike Huckabee
Huckabee was governor of Arkansas 1996-2007 and a 2008 Republican Presidential candidate during the primary election. As a Fox News host, Huckabee falsely claimed that Muslims believe “Jesus Christ and all the people who follow him are a bunch of infidels who should be essentially obliterated.” Huckabee also referred to Islam as the “antithesis of […]
Lauren Green
In a July 2013 interview for Fox News’ website with author Reza Aslan, Green asked, “I want to be clear you’re a Muslim. So why did you write a book about the founder of Christianity?” Aslan then listed off his academic credentials on the subject. Green, apparently unable to reconcile a Muslim writing about Jesus […]
Steven Crowder
Crowder is a Fox News commentator. In 2012, Media Matters for America collected a number of examples of factually questionable assertions about Muslims made on Fox News. Included on the list was a quote by Crowder from June 2012, alleging that a “high percentage” of Muslims “hate Jews and Christians.” According to Crowder, “the real […]