Self-styled Islam experts gained influence inside US conservative thinktanks

Evidence

One of Ye’or’s most fervent admirers is Robert Spencer, the author of a number of hostile books on Islam, jihad and terrorism, which purport to reveal the ‘disturbing questions’ and hidden ‘truth’ about a religion that he clearly detests. Spencer is one of a number of dubious ‘experts’ on Islam who have emerged in the US in recent years or found influential spaces in conservative US institutions and thinktanks. — Matt Carr, You Are Now Entering Eurabia, 47

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