"This Islamophobia network, as the liberal think tank the Center for American Progress labeled it, is funded in large part by wealthy pro-Israel donors and has generated a nationwide freakout about an alleged jihadist threat posed by deceptive US Muslims. In 2006, the ADL’s foundation gave $2,500 to the virulently anti-Muslim Middle East Forum headed by Daniel Pipes, a prominent ringleader of the Islamophobia network."