Carl Goldberg
Carl Goldberg is a member of the Arizona chapter of ACT for America. He is a self-styled “Islam expert” and is known for his speeches misrepresenting Islam to wide audiences. According to an announcement for an October 2013 ACT event, Goldberg would prove that “Islam is not just a religion but also a totalitarian and […]
Dorrie O’Brien
Dorrie O’Brien is the leader of the Grand Prairie Texas chapter of ACT For America. After attending a lecture by O’Brien, reporter Chelsea Schmid wrote, “What exactly constitutes radical Islam versus regular Islam, however was not mentioned in the presentation, nor was the speaker able to expound upon the idea.” Schmid continued, “When asked by […]
Debbie Anderson
Debbia Anderson is the head of the Minneapolis chapter of ACT for America. During a speech by ACT leader Brigitte Gabriel at the Mankato City Center in Minneapolis, Minn., Anderson handed out a “fact sheet” on Islam that she authored in which she alleged, “Despite Islam’s 1400 year history of Imperialism, land appropriation, genocide, cultural […]
Richard Swier
Richar Sweir is the director of the Sarasota, Fla. chapter of ACT for America. In 2011, Swier called world history textbooks that discuss Islam “anti-American.”
Scott Saunders
Saunders is affiliated with the Virginia Beach VA. chapter of ACT for America. In a September 2013 email opposing a local mosque, Sauders wrote, “My objection has to do with the 6th Amendment and the security of our city, state and nation. Unfortunately, Islam is unlike other recognized religions, i.e., it is not just a […]
Constance Gavras
Constance Gavras is the director of the Illinois chapter of ACT for America. He oopposed a mosque in Illinois because, “A lot of these mosques are directly connected to terrorist organizations.”
Guy Rodgers
Rodgers is the executive director and chief financial officer of ACT For America. He was formerly a former consultant for John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign and former national field director for Ralph Reed’s Christian Coalition. In 2010, Rodgers contended that “Muslims should be treated differently because their legal system is inherently flawed.”
Brigitte Gabriel
Brigitte Gabriel, also known as Hanah Kahwagi Tudor and Brigitte Tudor Brigitte Gabriel is the CEO, President, and Treasurer of ACT for America. She is a Lebanese-Christian who came to the United States after surviving the Lebanese civil war. She has made it her mission to warn that radical Muslims, a term she defines as […]
National Review
The National Review is a prominent neoconservative magazine which features anti-Islam commentary from Islamophobes such as Daniel Pipes, as well as from former Assistant US Attorney Andrew McCarthy, and syndicated columnist Deroy Murdock. In 2005, it was revealed that the publication distributed an Internet advertisement for a virulently Islamophobic book that, according to the magazine, […]
Stop Islamization of Nations
Stop Islamization of Nations was founded in January 2012 as an international derivative of Pamela Geller’s domestic project, Stop Islamization of America, and drawing inspiration from the Denmark based Stop Islamization Europe. Stop Islamization of Nations is part of the inner core of the U.S. Islamophobia network. Two of the group’s key individuals, Tommy Robinson […]