Center for Islamic Pluralism

Center for Islamic Pluralism
Formation	2004
Founder	•  Kemal Silay •  Stephen Suleyman Schwartz •  Nawab Agha •  Zuhdi Jasser •  Ahmed Subhy Mansour •  Salim Mansur •  Khaleel Mohammed •  Tashbih Sayyed
Extinction	2021?
Headquarters	Washington DC, USA
U.S.-based "moderate Muslim" think tank set up by Daniel Pipes and Zionist activist Stephen Schwartz. Defunct since 2021.

The Center for Islamic Pluralism (CIP) was a U.S.-based think tank set up by Daniel Pipes and Zionist activist Stephen Schwartz in 2004.

Overview

It was founded in 2004 by eight people, including the Jewish Sufi Muslim author Stephen Schwartz (from 2017 Lulu Schwartz), who is its Executive Director and, based on its 2005 annual financial return, its only full time employee. Another of the founding members of the group is M. Zuhdi Jasser who also founded another group with the same agenda, American Islamic Forum for Democracy

Its stated purpose is "challenging Islamist interpretations of Islam." and officially opened on March 25, 2005.

The website has not been updated since 2021, and the think tank seems to be defunct.

Own words

In the United States, CIP is a refreshing alternative from the so-called 'established' Muslim leadership in America. There are a number of organizations which present themselves as representatives of American Muslims but have never established any credibility in the non-Muslim American community.

They have also conveniently and completely avoided any internal Muslim issues such as anti-terrorism, human rights, women's rights, pluralism, anti-Semitism, and democratic reforms. They ignore reformist Muslims and leave them to be attacked by the extremists basically tacitly endorsing the extremists.

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