Eye on Extremism

After the tragedy of September 11th, Ms. Gabriel founded American Congress for Truth. She is a member of the board of Advisors of the Intelligence Summit and lectures internationally about terrorism and current affairs. Gabriel is the author of the book Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America. She is a regular guest on national TV and radio. She speaks four languages: Arabic, French, English and Hebrew.

Nonie Darwish founded Arabs For Israel. Raised as a Muslim in Cairo and the Gaza strip, she is a writer, translator and public speaker. After her father, who headed Egyptian military intelligence in Gaza and the Fedayeen operations under Nasser, was assassinated in 1956, Darwish attended the American University in Cairo and became a journalist and editor at the Middle East News Agency. She now works to bring peace to the Middle East through Arabs for Israel.

Mr. Gaffney founded the Center for Security Policy, an internationally recognized resource for timely, informed and penetrating analyses of foreign and defense policy matters. In 1987, he was nominated by President Reagan to become the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, the senior position in the Defense Department with responsibility for policies involving nuclear forces, arms control and U.S.-European defense relations.

A senior fellow of the Hudson Institute, he directs its Center on Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World. He is the founder of Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, the leading journal on contemporary Islamism which he co-edits with Husain Haqqani and Eric Brown. He is also general editor of Hudson’s monograph series on contemporary Islam and Islamism as well as the center’s website.

Carol A. Taber, Founder and President of Family Security Matters, is a seasoned business executive, with over 30 years experience in leadership positions for diverse communications companies at various stages of maturity. A former publisher of national women's magazines, Taber has broad experience in start-up, turnaround and repositioning projects as well as management of successful ongoing operations. She has delivered a consistent, extraordinary record of increasing revenues and profit, opening new markets and revenue streams, and developing new lines of affinity businesses and multi-media opportunities.

Mr. May focuses on defeating terrorism as the President of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He is also the Chairman of the Policy Committee for the Committee on the Present Danger (CPD), comprised of leading members of the national security community. Mr. May’s career spans international relations, journalism, communications and politics.

A senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, he focuses on Middle East history and politics, global terrorist movements, democratization and human rights. Dr. Phares leads the foundation's Future of Terrorism Project, which considers how the Islamist threat will mutate over time and what can be done to defend against new, more deadly strains of terrorism. He has authored nine books on terrorism and the Middle East.

Mr. Hanna launched Let Freedom Ring to support a conservative agenda. He is a former county commissioner in Chester County, PA; founder of PC HELPER, a computer support and maintenance firm and held several positions with CBS, WCAU Radio, CBS Radio Spot Sales and WCAU-TV. He was a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy and is now working on www.TheDangerIsReal.com, an initiative to alert the American public about the dangers of radical Islam.

Dr. Pipes calls himself a "soldier" in the war against radical Islam, keeping with his belief that the "war's center of gravity has shifted from force of arms to the hearts and minds of citizens." The personal website of Daniel Pipes receives more than 300,000 visitors per month and contains an archive of his writings since 1990. Many of the articles are translated into 25 languages.

Founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and editor of the conservative website FrontPage Magazine, Horowitz’s writings can also be read on prominent news sites and publications, including the conservative magazine NewsMax. He founded the activist group Students for Academic Freedom and is affiliated with Campus Watch. He occasionally appears on Fox News Channel.

After escaping an arranged marriage in Somalia by immigrating to the Netherlands, she served as a member of the Dutch parliament from 2003 to 2006. She works to integrate immigrants into Dutch society while defending the rights of women. In 2004, she made the film Submission with Theo van Gogh which resulted in the assassination of van Gogh by an Islamic extremist. Ms. Hirsi Ali works with the American Enterprise Institute and speaks internationally about women’s rights.

An internationally recognized expert on terrorism and national security and a best-selling author, Emerson founded The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) in 1995 following the PBS broadcast of his documentary film Jihad in America. Since September 11th, Emerson has briefed Congress dozens of times on terrorist financing and operational networks of Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and the rest of the worldwide Islamic militant spectrum.

The Wall Street Journal called him "the originator of the Reagan Doctrine". The Washington Post called him "The Indiana Jones of the Right". Dr. Wheeler has authored several books; completed the first free fall sky-dive ever attempted at the North Pole; was the youngest Eagle Scout in history; climbed the Matterhorn at 14; swam the Hellespont and lived with Amazon headhunters at 16. He even defeated Vladimir Putin -- and his KGB bodyguard -- in arm wrestling! He continues to lead expeditions while authoring To the Point News.