MONITORING AND COMBATING ISLAMOPHOBIA

A Project of the Council on American-Islamic Relations

ISLAMOPHOBIC INDIVIDUALS: Stephanie Reis

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 welcome message for ACT! for America’s Oklahoma chapter, Reis wrote, “The ideology, politics and religion of Islam has one purpose – to bring the world into submission to Islam and under its laws.”

Moorthy Muthuswamy

Moorthy Muthuswamy is an Indian-American anti-Muslim extremist who has promoted Islamophobic rhetoric and policies of the BJP and the RSS, two far-right political organizations in India.  In

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Marjorie Taylor Greene

Who is Marjorie Taylor Greene?  Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG) is an anti-Muslim, antisemitic, and far-right conspiracy theorist who serves as the U.S. representative for Georgia’s

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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

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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

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Tom Trento

Tom Trento is the founder and director of United West. Trento’s biography on the United West website identifies him as “one of the leading academic

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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

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Steven Emerson

Steven Emerseon is the founder of the Investigative Project on Terrorism. The New York Times Book Review said Emerson’s 1991 book Terrorist was “marred by

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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

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