American Freedom Alliance
Type of Organization: Politics, Grassroots, Education The American Freedom Alliance (AFA) is a non-profit organization which, according to its mission statement, “promotes, defends, and upholds Western values and ideals” through sponsored conferences, publications, and networking groups. the AFA acts as a grassroots organizer, hosting conferences and forming coalitions amongst like-minded entities and individuals. Its conferences […]
Gatestone Institute
Type of Organization: Media, Politics According to its website, the Gatestone Institute claims to be “a non-partisan, not-for-profit international policy council and think tank, dedicated to educating the public about what the mainstream media fails to report in promoting human rights, institutions of democracy and the rule of law, etc.” Gatestone’s founder, Nina Rosenwald, is […]
Shoebat Foundation
The Shoebat Foundation is an organization linked to fake former terrorist Walid Shoebat. While Shoebat’s website announces the latest news from the Foundation, CAIR researchers can find no evidence that the group has ever filed paperwork with the IRS. Further muddying the waters of transparency, is a banner on Shoebat.com announcing a “New Shoebat Foundation […]
Center for the Study of Political Islam
The Center for the Study of Political Islam is a think tank founded by Bill French, who also goes by the alias Bill Warner. The think tank’s mission is “to educate the world about political Islam, its founder Mohammed, his political doctrine and his god, Allah.” French has said, “Let me be clear: I do […]
F.M. Kirby Foundation
The F.M. Kirby Foundation was established in 1931 by one of the founders of the F.W. Woolworth Company. The foundation has made routine payments to an inner core Islamophobic organization. Grants tend to be awarded based on an already established relationship between the grantee and a member of the Kirby family. According to the foundation’s […]
Randolph Foundation
The New York-based Randolph Foundation was originally a trust of the Smith Richardson Foundation but became its own distinct entity around 1993. The foundation has granted money to a number of organizations in the inner core of the U.S. Islamophobia Network. Between 2011 and 2013, the foundation provided $140,000 in funds to groups dedicated to […]
Allegheny Foundation
The Allegheny Foundation is one of a group of three grantors known collectively as the Scaife Foundations. The Foundation “concentrates its giving in the Western Pennsylvania area and confines most of its grant awards to programs for historic preservation, civic development and education.” Over a five-year period, $600,000 was gifted to the David Horowitz Freedom […]
Newton and Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust
Type: Private Family Foundation Established by the late entrepreneur Newton Becker in 2006, the California-based Newton and Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust is a private, tax-exempt charitable foundation possessing millions in revenue. The Trust’s grantmaking focuses exclusively on Jewish organizations including the Zionist Organization of America and Birthright Israel. Between 2014 and 2016, the Trust poured […]
Stephen Harold Schimmel Foundation
Type: Private Family Foundation The Stephen Harold Schimmel Foundation is a California-based, private, tax-exempt entity founded in 1995. According to its tax filings, the president, secretary, and treasurer of the Foundation is Rosalba Schimmel, the wife of millionaire Stephen Harold Schimmel. There is little other publicly available information about the Schimmels’ or the Foundation. Between […]
Family Security Matters
Family Security Matters is a conservative news source sponsored by Frank Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy. The site regularly carries Islamophobic articles. In “The Fraudulent Frankenstein of Islam” Edward Cline asserts, “[Islam] is a totalitarian horror patched together by successive generations of cackling, malevolent mystics and haters of life stretching back twelve centuries.” Contributing Editor […]
Pat Robertson
Robertson is a commentator for Christian Broadcasting Network and the co-founder of American Center for Law and Justice. He is a media executive and Baptist minister known for being a key face of Christian conservative politics. Robertson compared Islam to Nazism on at least two separate occasions, in 2011 and 2013. In 2013, he said […]
Heavenly Father’s Foundation
Type: Private Family Foundation The Heavenly Father’s Foundation was founded in 2011 by Dan Wilks and his wife, Staci. Wilks is a Texan billionaire who made his fortune with his brother Farris from the fracking boom in the early 2000s. Both brothers, with their wives, operate independent foundations that avidly and primarily fund right-wing politicians […]
Mirowski Family Foundation
Type: Private Family Foundation The Mirowski Family Foundation is a private tax-exempt family foundation established in 1997. The Foundation has no public presence and does not provide any mission statement on its financial documents. Over the years it has funded an array of causes, including health and various Jewish and pro-Israel groups. Recipients include Oxfam, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Robert Shore
Robert “Raphael” Shore is a member of the Clarion Project’s board of directors. He has been an executive producer on a number of Islamophobic documentaries, including Obsession: Radical Islam’s Attack on the West. Shore’s more recent film Honor Diaries is co-produced by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, whose anti-Constitution and anti-Islam rhetoric is documented on this site.
Mano Bakh
Mano Bakh is part of Concerned American Citizens. On November 15, 2010, the Press-Enterprise published a portrait of Bakh noting that he was forced to flee Iran shortly after that country’s 1979 revolution. Bakh asserts he was subject to human rights abuses prior to his flight. According to the article’s author, Bakh believes “an expansionist […]
Babu Suseelani
Babu Suseelani is a member of the Stop Islamization of Nations (SION). His words: In 2012 Suseelan told an audience “If we do not kill the bacteria, the bacteria will kill us. Muslims will breed like rats and they will be a majority.” He then added, “Islam can be stopped! And it can be wiped […]
Ali Sina
Ali Sina is a board member of Stop Islamization of Nations and the founder of faithfreedom.org where he publishes numerous anti-Islam papers and blog posts. When asked why he fights Islam he replied, “When I read the Quran and felt blood dripping from every verse of it, when I saw that Islam reduces humans into […]
Ashraf Rameleh
Ashraf Rameleh is a board member of the Stop Islamization of Nations (SION) and a contributing editor to Family Security Matters, a conservative news source sponsored by Center for Security Policy. His words: During his speech at Stop the Islamization of Nations’ 2012 International Freedom of Speech Congress, Ramelah defended Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller […]
Cliff Kincaid
Cliff Kincaid is the editor of Accuracy in Media and a board member of Stop Islamization of Nations. In 2013, the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups in the United States, listed Kincaid among the “30 new activists heading up the radical right.”
Oskar Freysinger
Oskar Freysingeris a member of the board of directors of Stop Islamization of Nations and a Swiss parliamentarian associated with the Swiss People’s Party. He played a leading role in the movement to ban Islamic minarets in Switzerland.
Debbie Robinson
Debbie Robinson is a member of Stop Islamization of Nations and a leader of the Q Society of Australia. The group asserts, “Islam is a totalitarian ideology veiled in religion.”
Kevin Carroll
Carroll is a previous leader of the English Defense League. He left the EDL with Tommy Robinson in 2013. He has ties to Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer and is part of Stop Islamizaiton of Nations.
Anders Gravers
The leader of both Stop the Islamization of Europe and Stop the Islamization of Denmark, Gravers is included here due to his leadership role with Stop the Islamization of Nations.
Sam Kharoba
Sam Kharoba is the founder of the Counter Terrorism Operatinos Center. He has no formal academic degrees in Islamic studies and no experience in law enforcement. His only claim of any qualification is that he has a pre-university level certificate in Arabic culture, but Arabic culture is not Islam; in fact, only 20 percent of […]
Rick Joyner
Joyner is the president of the Oak Initiative. He is also the founder/director of Morningstar Ministries and the founder/director of Heritage National Ministries. He has authored more than forty books. His book, The Harvest, lays out some of his views on Islam: “Islamic terrorists will permeate the West with teams that target Christian organizations and […]
James Lafferty
James Lafferty is the president of the Virginia Anti-Shariah Taskforce. In a February 2012, Lafferty said he expressed pride in “…pictures of some mosque somewhere, and it was usually in the South I’m proud to say where a guy would drive a pickup truck right into the mosque…” Lafferty also serves on the boards of […]
Stephanie Reis
Stephanie Reis is the Virginia director for Act for America. The Republican Women of Clifton in Virginia invited Reis to discuss Islam in 2013. Announcements for the event noted that the guest speaker would discuss “how she believes the Hijab [Islamic head covering] is a catalyst for Islamic terrorism.” In 2010, as part of her […]
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.”
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
Type: Private Family Foundation The Bradley Foundation is a private, Wisconsin-based tax-exempt family foundation with a stated mission to “protect the principles and institutions of American exceptionalism.” It is one of the chief funders of the right-wing, supporting groups such as the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, the Hudson Institute, and the American Legislative Exchange Council, […]
Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism
Type: Private Family Foundation Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism is a family-controlled charity founded in 1988 by Jay Sekulow, who also co-established the anti-Muslim constitutional law firm the American Center for Law and Justice with televangelist Pat Robertson. CASE has no public website and its board comprises four members of the Sekulow family, namely his sons, […]
Abstraction Fund
Type: Private Family Foundation The Abstraction Fund is a national, tax-exempt private family foundation run by an heir of the Sears-Roebuck fortune, Nina Rosenwald. Rosenwald builds upon her grandfather Julius Rosenwald’s remarkable legacy of philanthropy — he served as a key bulwark of Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Institute, and provided critical assistance to Jewish refugees […]
Diana Davis Spencer Foundation
Type: Private Family Foundation The Diana Davis Spencer Foundation evolved from the Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation, established in 1962, and the Kathryn W. Davis Foundation, established in 2004. The Foundation has funded mainstream American institutions such as the ACLU, Aspen Institute, Teach for America and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. However, the Foundation’s […]
Eugene and Emily Grant Family Foundation
Type: Private Family Foundation The Eugene and Emily Grant Family Foundation is a private tax-exempt foundation established by the late Eugene Grant, a twentieth century pillar of New York’s real estate investment community. Grant was most known for his long-time holding of St. John’s Terminal, an old freight terminal near Greenwich Village in Manhattan that […]
Understanding the Threat
John Guandolo’ s Understanding the Threat (UTT) is a consultation and training group known for providing anti-Islam instruction for U.S. law enforcement officials. Guandolo believes that America “is at war with Islam,” and that major Muslim organizations and mosques are “preparing for combat.” He claims there is inaction on the part of the U.S. government […]