07-02-2015, 04:40 PM
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Quote:Anti-Muslim support
Even if Halvorssen were to be taken at his word about his relationship with Donors Capital Fund, he cannot explain why the Human Rights Foundation relies on other key members of the Islamophobia industry's financial network.
The Sarah Scaife Foundation, one of the four foundations controlled by conservative financier Richard Mellon Scaife, donated $325,000 to Halvorssen's Human Rights Foundation between 2007 and 2011, according to IRS filings.
According to the Center for American Progress, Scaife's foundations contributed a staggering $7,875,000 to the Islamophobia industry between 2001 and 2009.
Among the major recipients of Scaife's money was the David Horowitz Freedom Center, which received $3.4 million during the eight-year period documented in the "Fear Inc." report.
The David Horowitz Freedom Center happens to be the main sponsor of Robert Spencer, the Islamophobic pseudo-scholar who claimed in a video interview with the conservative website Politichicks that the Muslim Brotherhood has penetrated deep into President Obama's White House inner circle. Breivik referenced Spencer's work no fewer than 162 times in his manifesto.
Then there is the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, which contributed $145,000 to the Human Rights Foundation from 2007 through 2011, according to IRS forms. As The Electronic Intifada recently reported, the Bradley Foundation has helped pay the salaries of some of America's most virulent anti-Muslim agitators. These include David Horowitz, the creator of "Islamofascism Awareness Week," Pipes and Frank Gaffney, publisher of conspiratorial pamphlets like his 2010 "Shariah: The Threat to America," in which he warned that American Muslims were engaged in a "stealth jihad" to place the country under the control of "sharia," or Islamic law.
Breivik cited Gaffney and Horowitz a total of nine times in his manifesto.