It routinely hosts prominent Republican politicians for events. Earlier this month, the group co-sponsored a rally in Washington, D.C., against the nuclear accord with Iran where Sen. The center’s fringe rhetoric has not prevented it from becoming deeply entwined with the conservative establishment. submission to Islam.” Gaffney has also fueled protests of Islamic mosques and religious organizations, playing a key role in mobilizing protests against a planned Muslim community center in Manhattan in 2010. Gaffney, who was an acting assistant secretary of defense for several months in the Reagan administration, has spread a variety of Islamophobic conspiracy theories in recent years, claiming that President Obama is a secret Muslim, that Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan supports Islamic law, and that the redesign of the Missile Defense Agency’s logo revealed a “worrying pattern of official U.S. Gaffney also said that the entire controversy over Mohamed’s clock appeared to be an “influence operation” by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights group that Gaffney claimed is using “professional victim-promoting” to wage a “civilization jihad” in connection with the Muslim Brotherhood.
troops in the war in Iraq.” He said the clock “was half a bomb.”įrank Gaffney, the center’s founder and president, agreed with Hanson, while suggesting that there is reason to be suspicious of “ what we’re told was a clock” because “the story is not being fully explored and explained.” The Center for Security Policy, a think tank that routinely partners with prominent Republican politicians, including many of the current presidential contenders, is defending the arrest of 14-year-old Muslim high school student Ahmed Mohamed for bringing a homemade clock to school.Īmericans across the country expressed outrage at the news that Mohamed was handcuffed by police officers in Irving, Texas, on Monday, suspended from his high school, and accused of making a bomb after the electronic components he had connected to make his own digital clock beeped during English class.īut Center for Security Policy vice president Jim Hanson argued on his organization’s podcast that the clock “ looks exactly like a number of IED triggers that were produced by the Iranians and used to kill U.S.
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