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The purpose of the trip was to learn more about the current situation with Europe鈥檚 immigrant and Muslim communities.

For the past several decades, Daniel Pipes has promoted rabidly anti-Muslim views. In a 2006 blog post he falsely claimed there were听听in France controlled by Muslim vigilante groups where government services, including police, could no longer enter. Over the next nine years, Pipes would continue to defend that myth, updating his original blog post with anti-Muslim commentary supposedly showing these areas were spreading to other parts of Europe. (His last update to the post, in December 2015, continued to propagate the myth in slightly milder form, settling on the term 鈥減artial no-go zones.鈥�)

In 2004, as part of his vision for fighting terrorism committed in the name of Islam, Pipes endorsed hard-right pundit Michelle Malkin鈥檚 book听In Defense of Internment. He praised the book听, 鈥淢s. Malkin has done the singular service of breaking the academic single-note scholarship on a critical subject, cutting through a shabby, stultifying consensus to reveal how, 鈥榞iven what was known and not known at the time,鈥� President Roosevelt and his staff did the right thing.鈥� (Like his 鈥渘o-go zone鈥� claim, Pipes has听听his endorsement of Malkin鈥檚 book.)

However Pipes鈥� history of anti-Muslim views goes back much further. As early as 1990, he published an essay in the听National Review, which听, 鈥淔ears of a Muslim influx have more substance than the worry about jihad. Western European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and maintaining different standards of hygiene.鈥�

Pipes鈥� nativist and racially-tinged hysteria toward immigrants and Muslims has deepened rather than abated.听

On April 4, Pipes published an op-ed in the听Washington Times,听听that because immigration and so-called 鈥淚slamization鈥� (what he refers to as 鈥淚&I鈥�) are the 鈥渒ey issues in the West鈥檚 future,鈥� Western political leaders should consider 鈥渨orking with鈥� far-right groups like the FPO, 鈥渘ot marginalizing it.鈥澨�

While paying lip service to concerns about the fascist origins and far-right orientation of the FPO, he concluded, 鈥淔or all their shortcomings, parties focused on I&I are key to Europe remaining part of Western civilization. I&I are not only more urgent than neo-fascism, but the latter can rather easily be undone, while I&I lead to immense, unfixable, and permanent changes.鈥�

Rather than engaging in a course correction, 10 days later on April 14, Pipes published another op-ed in听听where he expanded upon his ideas laid out in the听Times听piece.听

In听The Australian, he favorably cites a longer list European and Australian far-rightists 鈥� each with their own not-so-distant histories of bigotry and racism he conveniently downplays or overlooks 鈥� including Hungarian Prime Minister听, France鈥檚听, the Dutch听, the听,听听leader听听and Australian听听leader听.听

He repeated the same conclusion made in the听Times听piece, but upped his anti-Muslim and thinly-veiled racist rhetoric saying, 鈥淚 acknowledge their many faults, but parties focused on immigration and Islamism are essential for Europe not to become an extension of Northern Africa, but to remain part of the Western civilization it created.鈥�

Pipes also made the untenable claim that, 鈥淭hey are not violent, they do not seek to overthrow the constitutional order.鈥� While it is true that these parties are not directly engaged in terrorist violence, it is undeniable that they have a history of creating political environments violent individuals who are their ideological听听and party听. Many of these parties have past and present officials with听听and听听backgrounds and have issued听听for听. Examples like Viktor Orban鈥檚 increasingly听听style of governing further call into question their collective commitment to a democratic, constitutional order.

In 2005, noting the largely unsuccessful attempt by far-right parties to stoke and capitalize upon anti-Muslim fears in Europe, including a handful of individuals who identify as Jewish,The听New York Times听interviewed Nobel Prize winner and Auschwitz survivor Elie Wiesel. Wiesel鈥檚 stance on outreach from the European far-right was听: 鈥淲hatever crisis we鈥檙e enduring, no Jew should go to the extreme right鈥� A Jew should never be an ally of racism, because we know what it is.鈥澨�

Pipes,听, not only advocates working with parties that have well-documented track records of antisemitism, racism, xenophobia, fascism and authoritarianism, but also downplays those records.听

Rather than heeding Wiesel鈥檚 words of wisdom, Pipes has instead allowed himself to be blinded by his own fear of Muslims and brown-skinned immigrants, whom he sees as outside of 鈥淲estern civilization鈥� rather than as fellow citizens. As a result, he has nakedly made the case for nothing short of a Faustian bargain.