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Daniel pipes board directors usip ADC Action Alert:
Pipes Nomination Vote Next Wednesday, 23rd
Monday, 21st, is National Call-in Day to Oppose
The nomination of Daniel Pipes to the Board of Directors of the United
States Institute of Peace (USIP) will be voted on by the Senate Committee on
Health, Education, Labor and Pensions next Wednesday, July 23. This
Committee usually approves uncontroversial nominations without debate or a
hearing, and it appears that this vote too will occur without a debate or a
hearing. However, Daniel Pipes‰?ª nomination should be rejected because of
his numerous bigoted statements against Arabs and Islam and his hard-line
opposition to just peace in the Middle East based on the exchange of
land-for-peace and the concept of two states, Israel and Palestine, endorsed
by President George W. Bush.
ADC is making Monday, July 21, a NATIONAL CALL-IN DAY TO OPPOSE THE PIPES
NOMINATION. You can contact your senators online at
http://capwiz.com/adc/issues/alert/?alertid=1876506&type=CO
Other committee phone numbers and contact information is included below.
WHY DANIEL PIPES SHOULD NOT SERVE ON THE BOARD OF THE US INSTITUTE FOR
PEACE:
* PIPES IS OPPOSED TO PEACE:
"Palestinians need almost as much to be defeated by Israel as Israel needs
to defeat them." (Jerusalem Post, April 25, 2001)
"The implication is clear: if Israel is to protect itself, it must achieve a
comprehensive military victory over the Palestinians‰?|" (New York Post
April 2, 2002);
"History teaches that what appears to be endless carnage does come to an end
when one side gives up. It appears increasingly likely that the Palestinians
are approaching that point, suggesting that if Israel persists in its
present policies it will get closer to victory." (‰?ÏThe Only Solution Is
Military,‰?? New York Post, February 25, 2002)
"Israel needs to take more active steps...Bury suicide bombers in potter's
fields rather than deliver their bodies to relatives (who turn their
funerals into frenzied demonstrations)‰?|Permit no transportation of people
or goods beyond basic necessities. Shut off utilities to the PA...Raze the
PA's illegal offices in Jerusalem, its security infrastructure and villages
from which attacks are launched." (The National Post, July 18, 2001)
"Encourage Israel to appear fearsome." (Jerusalem Post, December 6, 2000)
* PIPES PROMOTES HATEFUL BIGOTRY AGAINST ARABS AND MUSLIMS:
"The presence and increased stature, and affluence, and enfranchisement of
American Muslims...will present true dangers to American Jews." (Address to
the American Jewish Committee, October 21, 2001)
"I make the same point respectively to audiences of women, gays, civil
libertarians, Hindus, Evangelical Christians, atheists, and scholars of
Islam, among others, all of whom face 'true dangers' as the number of
Muslims increases..." (The Nation, November 11, 2002)
"Western European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of
brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and maintaining different
standards of hygiene...All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes,
but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most." (National Review,
11/19/90)
"Iranians and Pakistanis, to take two groups of non-Arabs, are at least as
widely conspiracy-minded and as anti-Semitic as, say, Tunisians and
Kuwaitis." (Commentary, September 1, 1999)
"...black converts tend to hold vehemently anti-American, anti-Christian,
and anti-Semitic attitudes." (Commentary, June 1, 2000)
"‰?|a well-established tradition of American blacks who convert to Islam
turning against their country." (Jewish World Review, 2002)
"Muslim population in this country is not like any other group, for it
includes within it a substantial body of people‰?|who share with the suicide
hijackers a hatred of the United States." (Commentary, November, 2001)
* PIPES‰?ª ‰?ÏCAMPUS WATCH‰?? IS A BIGOTED ATTACK ON ACADEMIC FREEDOM
"Middle East studies in the United States has become the preserve of Middle
Eastern Arabs, who have brought their views with them. Membership in the
Middle East Studies Association (MESA), the main scholarly association, is
now 50 percent of Middle Eastern origin." (From the original mission
statement, About Campus Watch, now edited out)
"‰?|academics seem generally to dislike their own country and think even
less of American allies abroad‰?|"(Ibid)
"Campus Watch will henceforth monitor and gather information on professors
who fan the flames of disinformation, incitement and ignorance." (Ibid)
FOR MORE BACKGROUND ON PIPES SEE:
http://www.adc.org/index.php?id=1779
PLEASE CONTCT THE MEMBERS OF THE HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS
COMMITTEE
Democrats:
Edward Kennedy (MA) - Phone: (202) 224-4543, Fax: (202) 224-2417
Christopher Dodd (CT) - Phone: (202) 224-2823, Fax: (202) 224-1083
Tom Harkin (IA) - Phone: (202) 224-3254, Fax: (202) 224-9369
Barbara Mikulski (MD) - Phone: (202) 224-4654, Fax: (202) 224-8858
Jeff Bingaman (NM) - Phone: (202) 224-5521, Fax: (202) 224-2852
Patty Murray (WA) - Phone: (202) 224-2621, Fax: (202) 224-0238
Jack Reed (RI) - Phone: (202) 224-4642, Fax: (202) 224-4680
John Edwards (NC) - Phone: (202) 224-3154, Fax: (202) 228-1374
Hillary Clinton (NY) - Phone: (202) 224-4451, Fax: (202) 228-0282
Republicans:
Judd Gregg (NH) - Phone: (202) 224-3324, Fax: (202) 224-4952
Bill Frist (TN) - Phone: (202) 224-3344, Fax: (202) 228-1264
Michael Enzi - Phone: (202) 224-3424, Fax: (202) 228-0359
Lamar Alexander (TN) - Phone: (202) 224-5721, Fax: (202) 224-8149
Christopher Bond (MO) ‰?Ò Phone: (202) 224-2315, Fax: (202) 224-6519
Mike DeWine (OH) - Phone: (202) 224-2315, Fax: (202) 224-6519
Pat Roberts (KS) - Phone: (202) 224-4774, Fax: (202) 224-3514
Jeff Sessions (AL) - Phone: (202) 224-4124, Fax: (202) 224-3149
John Ensign (NV) - Phone: (202) 224-6244, Fax: (202) 228-2193
Lindsey Graham (SC) - Phone: (202) 224-5972, Fax: (202) 224-3808
John Warner (VA) - Phone: (202) 224-2023, Fax: (202) 224-6295
Independents:
James Jeffords (VT) - Phone: (202) 224-5141, Fax: (202) 228-0776
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