Seven foundations gave $43 million to anti-Muslim groups from 2001 to 2009

Evidence

Seven foundations contributed close to 43 million to these new McCarthyites between 2001 and 2009. The main funders were the Donors Capital Fund (DCP), the Richard Mellon Scaife Foundations, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Newton D. and Rochelle F. Becker Foundation and charitable trust, the Russell Berrie Foundation, Anchorage Charitable Fund and William Rosenwald Family Fund, and the Fairbrook Foundation. Of these, the DCP, an offshoot of Donors Capital (DC), is associated with the Koch brothers. In 2008 alone, they poured 17 million into the distribution of the film Obsession: Radical Islam’s War with the West, which postulates that the threat of “Islam” is comparable to Nazism. Between the years 2009 and 2015, the biggest recipient of DCP/DC funds was Pipes’s Middle East Forum, but Gaffney’s CSP and Horowitz’s Freedom Center also benefited from their money. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 697

Categorization

• XREF: Directly connects to chapter summaries and other sources on Islamophobia network funding; the mid-2011 Spinwatch/Fear Inc. documentary trail anchors the network-mapping that predates and enables 9/11-era crystallisation. — connects to: Seven foundations gave over forty-three million dollars to Islamophobic groups from 2001 to 2009 — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 549; Seven foundations funneled 42 million dollars to five anti-Muslim activists — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 621; Seven right-wing foundations spent over $40 million funding Islamophobia from 2001 to 2009. (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Seven right-wing foundations spent over $40 million funding Islamophobia from 2001 to 2009. #corroborates (0.98)
• Seven foundations funneled 42 million dollars to five anti-Muslim activists #corroborates (0.97) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 621
• Organized funding sustains professional anti-Muslim propaganda networks in the US #expands (0.80) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 29
• A well-funded network of professional Islamophobes drives anti-Muslim activism in America #expands (0.80) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 446
• Zionist foundations explicitly funded the Islamophobia network #expands (0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 698