Frank J. Gaffney Jr. is an American anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist and the founder and president of the Center for Security Policy. In the 1970s and 1980s,he worked for the federal government in multiple posts,including seven months as Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs during the Reagan administration.
The Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) is a Muslim civil rights and advocacy group. It is headquartered on Capitol Hill in Washington,D.C.,with regional offices nationwide. Through civil rights actions,media relations,civic engagement,and education,CAIR's stated purpose is to promote social,legal and political activism among Muslims in America.
Daniel Pipes is an American commentator on foreign policy and the Middle East. He is the president of the Middle East Forum,and publisher of its Middle East Quarterly journal. His writing focuses on American foreign policy and the Middle East as well as criticism of Islam.
Robert Bruce Spencer is an American anti-Muslim author and blogger,and one of the key figures of the counter-jihad movement. Spencer founded and has directed the blog Jihad Watch since 2003. In 2010 he co-founded the organization Stop Islamization of America with Pamela Geller.
FrontPage Magazine,also known as FrontPageMag.com,is an American right-wing,anti-Islam political website edited by David Horowitz and published by the David Horowitz Freedom Center. The site has also been described by scholars and writers as far-right and Islamophobic.
The Center for Security Policy (CSP) is a US far-right,anti-Muslim,Washington,D.C.-based think tank. The founder and former president of the organization was Frank J. Gaffney Jr.. The current president is Tommy Waller,a former US Marine. CSP sometimes operates under its DBA name Secure Freedom. The organization also operates a public counter-jihad campaign and the website counterjihad.com.
William Lester Armstrong Jr. was an American businessman,administrator,and politician. He was a member of the Republican Party and served as a United States representative and Senator from Colorado.
Walid Phares is a Lebanese-American politician,scholar,and conservative pundit.
Colorado Christian University (CCU) is a private Christian university in Lakewood,Colorado. CCU was founded by Clifton Fowler in 1914 as the Denver Bible Institute.
Brigitte Gabriel is a Lebanese-American conservative activist,author and lecturer,and critic of Islam. She is the founder of ACT for America,which has been described as "the largest grassroots anti-Muslim group" in the United States.
The David Horowitz Freedom Center,formerly the Center for the Study of Popular Culture (CSPC),is a conservative anti-Islam foundation founded in 1988 by political activist David Horowitz and his long-time collaborator Peter Collier. It was established with funding from groups including the John M. Olin Foundation,the Bradley Foundation and the Scaife Foundation.
Suhail A. Khan is the Senior Fellow for Muslim-Christian Understanding at the Institute for Global Engagement and Senior Director for External Affairs at Microsoft). Khan was previously a senior political appointee with the Bush administration,and a conservative political activist in Washington,D.C.
Muslim Mafia:Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America is a 2009 book by Paul David Gaubatz and Paul Sperry. According to the Charlotte Observer,it "portrays the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as a subversive organization allied with international terrorists."
Counter-jihad,also known as the counter-jihad movement,is a self-titled political current loosely consisting of authors,bloggers,think tanks,street movements and so on linked by beliefs that view Islam not as a religion but as an ideology that constitutes an existential threat to Western civilization. Consequently,counter-jihadists consider all Muslims as a potential threat,especially when they are already living within Western boundaries. Western Muslims accordingly are portrayed as a "fifth column",collectively seeking to destabilize Western nations' identity and values for the benefit of an international Islamic movement intent on the establishment of a caliphate in Western countries. The counter-jihad movement has been variously described as anti-Islamic,Islamophobic,inciting hatred against Muslims,and far-right. Influential figures in the movement include the bloggers Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer in the US,and Geert Wilders and Tommy Robinson in Europe.
The Western Conservative Summit is an annual conference of influential U.S. conservatives,held in Denver,Colorado since 2010. It is organized by the Centennial Institute and Colorado Christian University. It has grown each year,and now includes a Young Conservatives Leadership Conference,which is led by radio host Hugh Hewitt.
Gatestone Institute is an American conservative think tank based in New York City,known for publishing articles pertaining to U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East,specifically with regard to Islamic extremism. It was founded in 2012 by Nina Rosenwald,who serves as its president. John R. Bolton,former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and former National Security Advisor,was its chairman from 2013 until March 2018. Its current chairman is Amir Taheri. The organization has attracted attention for publishing false or inaccurate articles,some of which were shared widely.
Nina Rosenwald is an American political activist and philanthropist. An heiress to the Sears Roebuck fortune,Rosenwald is vice president of the William Rosenwald Family Fund and co-chair of the board of American Securities Management. She is the founder and president of Gatestone Institute,a New York-based right-wing anti-Muslim think tank.
John R. Bennett is an American politician who served as the chairman of the Oklahoma Republican Party from April 2021 to April 2022 and as a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 2011 until 2019.
John D. Guandolo is an American former FBI Special Agent and anti-Islam counterterrorism activist who has provided training seminars for law enforcement and local elected officials,and who has been described as an anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist.
Chris Allen Gaubatz is an American national security consultant who is known for posing as an intern for the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) in order to gather information on the group's inner workings,which were published in the 2009 book Muslim Mafia by his father Paul David Gaubatz and Paul Sperry.
