As a specialist who takes a strong stand against militant Islam, the most virulent and destructive ideology of our time, I am the object of considerably hostility. Not only do I receive a steady number of virulent messages but, more importantly, their leaders repeatedly point to me as the cause of their problems with the law in the United States. Three examples:
- The arrest of Jamil Al-Amin: writing at islam-online.net on 25 July 2001 in an article titled "Jamil Al-Amin Framed?" Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad suggests that an article of mine in the 21 February 2000 issue of National Review prompted the Atlanta police a month later to frame and arrest Jamil Al-Amin, the black militant Islamic once known at H. Rap Brown, who was in March 2002 sentenced to life in jail without parole.
- The investigation of InfoCom: at a press conference given on 6 September 2001, one day after the FBI raided the premises of InfoCom, an internet provider for militant Islamic organizations, such militant Islamic organizations as CAIR and iviews.com held Steven Emerson and me responsible for this raid due to an article of ours in The Wall Street Journal on 13 August 2001. This notion was then picked up 10 September 2001 and spread by the seemingly-reputable Guardian newspaper of London.
- The investigation of IIIT & related institutions: in a 24 March 2002 article on islam-online.net, Jamal Barzinji explains the raids of the International Institute of Islamic Thought that took place four days earlier as the result of my writings. Barzinji told a reporter (Ayesha Ahmad, "Confusion Over Why Muslim Scholars, Intellectual Institutions Targeted," islam-online.net, 24 March 2002) that "the trail of suspicion could lead back to self-styled Middle East 'experts' like Daniel Pipes and Steven Emerson, widely suspect among American Muslims for anti-Islamic theories. Their reports on what and whom they suspect of supporting terrorism are sent to federal agencies, which use the information without considering ulterior motives or hidden agendas."
These lies are intended to intimidate me into silence. Well, they won't work.
