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==Controversy== The Center and Gaffney have been criticized for propagating conspiracy theories by [[Dana Milbank]] of ''[[The Washington Post]]'',<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/its-up-to-voters-to-reject-trump-and-carsons-bigotry/2015/09/21/09bce8f0-60a5-11e5-9757-e49273f05f65_story.html|title=It's up to voters to reject Trump and Carson's bigotry|author=Milbank, Dana|date=September 21, 2015|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=September 28, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151003075005/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/its-up-to-voters-to-reject-trump-and-carsons-bigotry/2015/09/21/09bce8f0-60a5-11e5-9757-e49273f05f65_story.html|archive-date=October 3, 2015|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Simon Maloy of [[Salon (website)|Salon]],<ref name="Maloy">{{cite news|author=Maloy, Simon|url=http://www.salon.com/2015/08/28/cruzs_cynical_trump_detente_theyre_good_buddies_now_but_wait_until_the_donalds_support_drops/|title=Cruz's cynical Trump detente: They're good buddies now, but wait until The Donald's support drops|newspaper=[[Salon (website)|Salon]]|date=August 28, 2015|access-date=September 28, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151227043440/http://www.salon.com/2015/08/28/cruzs_cynical_trump_detente_theyre_good_buddies_now_but_wait_until_the_donalds_support_drops/|archive-date=December 27, 2015|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> CNN national security analyst [[Peter Bergen]],<ref name=Bergen>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/21/opinions/bergen-muslim-religious-tolerance/|title=The Republicans' Muslim 'problem'|author=Bergen, Peter|date=September 21, 2015|newspaper=[[CNN]]|access-date=September 28, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150929022053/http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/21/opinions/bergen-muslim-religious-tolerance/|archive-date=September 29, 2015|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> [[Grover Norquist]],<ref>{{cite news |author=David Weigel |date=March 16, 2015 |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-03-16/how-the-nra-s-internal-election-became-a-civil-war-over-radical-islam |title=Election Became a Civil War Over Radical Islam: Grover Norquist, Frank Gaffney, and the battle that could reach Hillary Clinton's campaign |publisher=Bloomberg Politics |access-date=March 6, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170426152508/https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-03-16/how-the-nra-s-internal-election-became-a-civil-war-over-radical-islam |archive-date=April 26, 2017 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all }}</ref> [[Jonathan Kay]],<ref name=Kay>{{cite news|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/23/bachmann-gaffney-and-the-gop-s-anti-muslim-culture-of-conspiracy.html|title=Bachmann, Gaffney, and the GOP's Anti-Muslim Culture of Conspiracy|newspaper=[[The Daily Beast]]|author=Kay, Jonathan|date=July 23, 2012|access-date=September 28, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711192335/http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/23/bachmann-gaffney-and-the-gop-s-anti-muslim-culture-of-conspiracy.html|archive-date=July 11, 2015|url-status=live|df=mdy-all|author-link=Jonathan Kay}}</ref> [[Georgetown University]]'s [[Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim–Christian Understanding]],<ref name="Georgetown University">{{cite web|title=Presidential Candidates Set to Appear at Event Hosted By Anti-Muslim Conspiracy Theorist|url=http://bridge.georgetown.edu/presidential-candidates-set-to-appear-at-event-hosted-by-anti-muslim-conspiracy-theorist/|website=The Bridge Initiative|publisher=[[Georgetown University]]|author=The Bridge Initiative Team|date=July 20, 2015|access-date=July 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150726144937/http://bridge.georgetown.edu/presidential-candidates-set-to-appear-at-event-hosted-by-anti-muslim-conspiracy-theorist/|archive-date=July 26, 2015|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> [[Center for American Progress]],<ref>{{cite web|author=Wajahat Ali|title=Fear, Inc.|url=https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/religion/report/2011/08/26/10165/fear-inc/|date=August 26, 2015|publisher=Center for American Progress|access-date=July 24, 2015|display-authors=etal|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151106033213/https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/religion/report/2011/08/26/10165/fear-inc/|archive-date=November 6, 2015|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> [[Media Matters for America]],<ref>{{cite web|author=Johnson, Timothy|title=NRA Annual Meeting To Enmesh Gun Extremism With GOP Presidential Hopefuls|url=http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/04/09/nra-annual-meeting-to-enmesh-gun-extremism-with/203217|publisher=Media Matters for America|date=April 9, 2015|access-date=July 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150725123039/http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/04/09/nra-annual-meeting-to-enmesh-gun-extremism-with/203217|archive-date=July 25, 2015|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]],<ref name="SPLC">{{cite web|author=Southern Poverty Law Center|url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/frank-gaffney-jr|title=Frank Gaffney Jr.|publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center|access-date=September 28, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908010433/https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/frank-gaffney-jr|archive-date=September 8, 2015|url-status=live|df=mdy-all|author-link=Southern Poverty Law Center}}</ref> ''[[The Intercept]]'',<ref>{{cite web|author=Lee, Fang|url=https://theintercept.com/2015/09/18/prominent-anti-muslim-group-says-ahmed-mohameds-clock-resembles-ied-trigger-produced-iranians/|title=Ahmed Mohamed's Clock Was "Half a Bomb", Says Anti-Muslim Group With Ties to Trump, Cruz|newspaper=[[The Intercept]]|date=September 18, 2015|access-date=September 28, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926094217/https://theintercept.com/2015/09/18/prominent-anti-muslim-group-says-ahmed-mohameds-clock-resembles-ied-trigger-produced-iranians/|archive-date=September 26, 2015|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> the [[Anti-Defamation League]],<ref>[[Anti-Defamation League]] (March 2011) [http://www.adl.org/assets/pdf/civil-rights/stop-islamization-of-america-2013-1-11-v1.pdf "Stop Islamization of America (SIOA)"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000852/http://www.adl.org/assets/pdf/civil-rights/stop-islamization-of-america-2013-1-11-v1.pdf |date=March 4, 2016 }}</ref> and the [[Institute for Southern Studies]],<ref name=SouthS>{{cite web|author=Sturgis, Sue|date=July 20, 2012|url=http://www.southernstudies.org/2012/07/meet-the-man-behind-the-muslim-conspiracy-uproar.html|title=Meet the man behind the Muslim conspiracy uproar|work=The [[Institute for Southern Studies]]|access-date=September 28, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912044144/http://www.southernstudies.org/2012/07/meet-the-man-behind-the-muslim-conspiracy-uproar.html|archive-date=September 12, 2015|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> among others. Gaffney has been described as an influential member of the [[counter-jihad]] movement,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.vox.com/world/2017/2/13/14559822/trump-islam-muslims-islamophobia-sharia|title=Trump's counter-jihad|date=February 13, 2017|work=Vox|last=Beauchamp|first=Zack|access-date=October 31, 2022|archive-date=June 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170608051716/https://www.vox.com/world/2017/2/13/14559822/trump-islam-muslims-islamophobia-sharia|url-status=live}}</ref> and the CPS has been described as "arguably the most important" counter-jihad advocacy group.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Donald Trump, the anti-Muslim far right and the new conservative revolution|first=Ed|last=Perwee|year=2020|journal=Ethnic and Racial Studies|volume=43|issue=16 |pages=211–230|doi=10.1080/01419870.2020.1749688|s2cid=218843237 |doi-access=free}}</ref> In 2016, the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] (SPLC) labeled the CSP as a [[hate group]] and a "conspiracy-oriented mouthpiece for the growing anti-Muslim movement",<ref name="splc2">{{cite web |title=Center for Security Policy |publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/center-security-policy |access-date=March 30, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160411234113/https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/center-security-policy |archive-date=April 11, 2016 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref name="bbc.com">{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35037943 |title=Trump's 'Muslim lockdown': What is the Center for Security Policy? |work=BBC News |date=December 8, 2015 |access-date=June 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180619055126/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35037943 |archive-date=June 19, 2018 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Chokshi |first1=Niraj |title=The year of 'enormous rage': Number of hate groups rose by 14 percent in 2015 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/02/17/hate-groups-rose-14-percent-last-year-the-first-increase-since-2010/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=27 June 2018 |language=en |date=17 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180619063133/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/02/17/hate-groups-rose-14-percent-last-year-the-first-increase-since-2010/ |archive-date=June 19, 2018 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all }}</ref> a characterization disputed by the CSP.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Fleitz|first1=Fred|title=What do Ben Carson, Frank Gaffney share? Both are victims of a left-wing smear machine.|url=https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/what-do-ben-carson-frank-gaffney-share-both-are-victims-of-a-left-wing-smear-machine/|access-date=10 February 2017|work=[[Fox News]] Opinion|publisher=FoxNews.com|date=February 19, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170304053617/http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/02/19/what-do-ben-carson-frank-gaffney-share-both-are-victims-left-wing-smear-machine.html|archive-date=March 4, 2017|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> SPLC representatives have characterized the CSP as "an extremist think tank" and suggested that it is led by an "anti-muslim conspiracy theorist."<ref name="hill">{{cite news|author1=Johnson, Terri A.|author2=Cohen, J. Richard|date=September 3, 2015|url=https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/religious-rights/252605-anti-muslim-bigotry-has-no-place-in-politics/|title=Anti-Muslim bigotry has no place in politics|newspaper=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]|access-date=September 28, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151006111445/http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/religious-rights/252605-anti-muslim-bigotry-has-no-place-in-politics|archive-date=October 6, 2015|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name=bbc>{{cite news|title=Trump's 'Muslim lockdown': What is the Center for Security Policy?|author=Joel Gunter|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35037943|access-date=10 December 2015|work=[[BBC News]]|date=8 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151212201215/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35037943|archive-date=December 12, 2015|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> The SPLC further criticizes CSP's "investigative reports", saying that they are designed "to reinforce [Frank] Gaffney's delusions".<ref name="SPLC" /> One of the CSP's "Occasional Papers" accused [[Huma Abedin]], then [[Hillary Clinton]]'s aide, of being an undercover [[spy]] for the [[Muslim Brotherhood]].<ref name="SPLC" /> On June 13, 2012, Republican members of Congress [[Michele Bachmann]], [[Trent Franks]], [[Louie Gohmert]], [[Tom Rooney (Florida politician)|Thomas Rooney]] and [[Lynn Westmoreland]], sent a letter to the [[Inspector General of the Department of State|State Department Inspector General]] including accusations against Abedin cited to the CSP. The letter and the CSP's accusation were widely denounced as a smear, and achieved "near-universal condemnation", including from several prominent Republicans such as [[John McCain]], [[John Boehner]], [[Scott Brown (politician)|Scott Brown]], and [[Marco Rubio]].<ref name= Kay/><ref name=SouthS/><ref>{{cite news | author1=Jennifer Bendery | author-link=Jennifer Bendery | author2=Terkel, Amanda | url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/19/huma-abedin-michele-bachmann_n_1686557.html | work=[[The Huffington Post]] | title=More Republicans Speak Out Against Bachmann Attacks | date=July 19, 2012 | access-date=July 25, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150725121041/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/19/huma-abedin-michele-bachmann_n_1686557.html | archive-date=July 25, 2015 | url-status=live | df=mdy-all }}</ref> Writing in [[Religion Dispatches]], [[Sarah Posner]] described the organization as "a [[Far right|far-right]] think tank whose president, Frank Gaffney, was banned from the [[Conservative Political Action Conference|CPAC]] [Conservative Political Action Conference] ... because its organizers believed him to be a 'crazy bigot'".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://religiondispatches.org/welcome-to-the-shariah-conspiracy-theory-industry/|title=Welcome to the Shari'ah Conspiracy Theory Industry|author=Posner, Sarah|date=April 17, 2012|work=Religion Dispatches|access-date=September 28, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150928214220/http://religiondispatches.org/welcome-to-the-shariah-conspiracy-theory-industry/|archive-date=September 28, 2015|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> The Center for Democratic Values at [[Queens College, City University of New York]] has said the center is among the "key players in the Sharīʿah cottage industry", which it describes as a "conspiracy theory" that claims the existence of "secretive power elite groups that conspire to replace sovereign nation-states in order to eventually rule the world".<ref>The Michael Harrington Center for Democratic Values and Social Action [http://www.qc.cuny.edu/Academics/Centers/Democratic/Documents/The%20Shiriah%20Conspiracy%20Theory.pdf "Action Brief"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908173330/http://www.qc.cuny.edu/Academics/Centers/Democratic/Documents/The%20Shiriah%20Conspiracy%20Theory.pdf |date=September 8, 2015 }} (April 2011)</ref> In March 1995, [[William M. Arkin]], a reporter and commentator on military affairs, criticized the CSP's Gaffney as a "maestro of bumper-sticker policy" who "specializes in intensely personal attacks" and who has "never met a flag-waving, pro-defense, anti-Democratic idea he didn't like."<ref name=arkin>{{cite journal|author=Arkin, William M.|author-link=William M. Arkin|title=The Story of Two Franks|journal=[[Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists]]|date=March 1995|volume=51|issue=2|page=80|doi=10.1080/00963402.1995.11658058|bibcode=1995BuAtS..51b..80A |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DwwAAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Center+for+Security+Policy%22+%22Annual+Report%22+pizza&pg=PA80|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Gaffney has also generated controversy for writing in 2010 that the logo of the [[U.S. Missile Defense Agency]] "appears ominously to reflect a morphing of the Islamic crescent and star with the Obama campaign logo" and was part of a "worrying pattern of official U.S. submission to Islam".<ref name=clifton /><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://thinkprogress.org/frank-gaffney-posits-that-missile-defense-logo-is-evidence-of-obamas-submission-to-shariah-17386118306#.gksldk5zp |title=Frank Gaffney Posits That Missile Defense Logo is Evidence of Obama's 'Submission to Shariah' |website=[[ThinkProgress]] |access-date=February 28, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170522094943/https://thinkprogress.org/frank-gaffney-posits-that-missile-defense-logo-is-evidence-of-obamas-submission-to-shariah-17386118306#.gksldk5zp |archive-date=May 22, 2017 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
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