Talk:Walid Phares

absolutely terrible writing

This wiki currently contains language like this: "The Daily Beast piece was an attack on Phares during the Presidential election campaign as The Daily beast opposed Romney. Phares has never made any statement on "Sharia Law and Muslims in the US." Not one evidence cited." The article isn't the place for arguing about stupid shit and adopting this kind of tone. Phares was the target of several hit pieces after he was appointed by Romney in 2011 and a second wave of hit pieces after he was appointed by Trump in 2016. His critics use Wikipedia to discredit him. The management must intervene to stop the smear on Wikipedia. There should be a section on controversial items but not insert across the page, one sided attacks, particularly that they are all from one political and ideological camp

Initial comments

We're watching the Jihadi cyber subversion

I an avid reader of Wikipedia and follow the war on terror closely. I have noted that the same group of cyber militants keep changing the entries about Professor Walid Phares on Wikipedia and insert insults to him and to his exertise. Instead of writing comments and his analysis, these Cyber-bandits keep trying to insert stupid sentences such as "deputy commander of a militia, and ally of Ariel Sharon etc., and all that nonsense." Not only they fool no one who knows about this author worldwide, but they perform their piracy with absolute idiocy. They could simply state that they do not agree with particular or all points. Instead, as retarded teen agers online, they insert these adjectives, only found among the members of Jihadi groups and gangs. And by the way, since they've posted similar stuff on other web sites and attacked other prominent scholars, they should know that their identities are now known and linked to Terrorism.

For example, the "pen" that started on internet the idiocy that Phares, an author, lawyer and writer, was a "deputy comander of a militia," was finally revealed: Al Qaida linked member Ismael Royer, convicted on charges of terrorism in the Virginia Paint Ball network. He is serving a sentence in jail for "forming a Terror cell in the US." Ismael Royer, a former member of the Wahabi lobby, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), has specialized in attacking and bashing the reputation of US experts such as Daniel Pipes, Steve Emerson, etc. He was behind a series of articles he posted on line attacking Phares with gross lies such as "deputy commander" (gosh) and neocon ally of the Likud, and all that crap. Guess what, A US court found Royer guilty of Terrorism.

There are many Jihadis like Ismael Royer who are roaming the net to demonize those experts who are exposing Jihadism and its derivatives. One of their preferred place is Wikipedia. But they need to watch for themselves, for they are too under watch by concerned citizens

Jad Abdallah Jihad Watch Volunteer —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jihadwatch (talk • contribs) 09:28, June 10, 2006

POV

I've never edited a Wikipedia article before, but I thought the blatant POV in this article needed attention. The whole last section of the biography, starting with "He is well-known for" should probably be removed, but I'm reticent to do so myself as this is my first time actually using the edit feature.

I think it is probably self-explanatory as to why that section should be removed. The statement "an advocate of Nazi-esque policies of Genocide towards Muslim Arabs" is obviously over the top and propagandistic. Likewise with "some have called him...". Who has called him? My guess is the last editor himself, as it is not attributed to anyone. Certainly there are legitimate criticisms of Mr. Phares, but shouldn't these be raised in a new section of the article, such as under a Criticism heading, and attributed to real people? I don't know enough about the man to do so myself, but I think this article could use some expansion in that vein. 24.11.123.68 02:07, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

I removed the NPOV boilerplate now that the offending section has been redacted. I still think this article could use some expansion, however. 24.11.123.68 13:44, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Ahem...that should be POV boilerplate. 24.11.123.68 13:46, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

"During the Lebanese Civil War, Phares was the deputy commander of the Lebanese Forces right-wing sectarian Christian militia which allied itself with Israel and was responsible, along with Ariel Sharon, for the Sabra and Shatila massacre."

This really needs sourcing, and the bit about Ariel Sharon is gratuitous. --guanubian 02:46, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

The October 2006 copy of the Atlantic Monthly has an article that is quite critical of Mr. Phares' expertise (Prophetic Justice pg. 82-93 by Amy Waldman). Specifically, the writer claims that "much of his knowledge of Salafism had come from the Internet. He testified that he had never been to Saudi Arabia, Yemen, or Egypt; had never taken a course in the Koran or hadith; and had never been to a Salafi mosque. ... He and the defense experts disagreed about whether taqiya--religiously sanctioned dissimulation--would be practiced by Sunnis ... To prove his point, Phares brandished an article from USA Today about Pakistani men at the Karachi mosque preparing to come to America to blend in as a "sleeper cell". The article, he said, was an example of modern Sunnis practicing taqiya" (86). Further the author of this article claims the article Mr. Phares cited had been discredited as falsified by the author of that article (the reporter, Jack Kelley apparently was let go from USA Today after it was discovered that he falsified accounts, apparently including the article Mr. Phares cites). The damaging point is that the author claims that Mr. Phares was still citing this discredited article this year to support his claims (over a year after this source was discovered to be faulty). I do not know how this could be integrated into the Wikipedia article on Mr. Phares, but I sense it may be important.--152.2.62.69 19:51, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

I KNOW HIM!!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE HE'S GOT AN ARTICLE!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.11.220.60 (talk • contribs) 22:12, December 29, 2006

Nine years later, you are proven to have been wrong. -- AstroU (talk) 16:49, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Showing slant

Phares appears to be a mouthpiece for anti-Islamic elements, some might even consider anti-Arab sentiments. Many Palestinian Christians are slanted against Israel (an example would be the Arab Christian initiated divestment policy in the Anglican Church) yet he remains vehemently pro-Israel (even some Israelis are not as pro-Israeli as he is). I think the article should make Phares' stance clear on major issues so people don't swallow his tripe which is everywhere, on all the major networks. He is critical of the more liberal Arab media, Al Jazirah, but he doesn't apply the same criteria towards American media. I'm surprised he teaches religion and Middle Eastern studies. 69.199.85.72 08:19, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

10/13/11 I understand there has been an edit war over the Walid Phares biographic entry, I was the one trying to update the piece with relevant information concerning Phares' views on Islam and past associations with the 1980's Lebanon Civil War. A simple check of the references provided will demonstrate that these updates were not slander, but clarification to a heavily scripted entry. Phares is a public figure which has gone on the record numerous times denouncing Muslim Americans, promoting the Sharia Conspiracy, and is an advisor to the Romney Campaign. If you can provide or edit a more fair and balanced entry please be my guest, but I would ask that you also not let those with an interest to promote Phares' hateful views have their way.

Libel and Defamation to serve a political agenda

I might have engaged in an edit war and I apologize for that. Nevertheless, I am appalled by the stubbornness of certain editors in adding irrelevant, controversial facts on Professor Phares' page just because he was appointed as a foreign policy adviser in a presidential campaign. Disagreeing with someone does not entitle you to disfigure his life's work and disrespect his academic and professional achievements by copy-pasting cheap propaganda accusations. Those accusations are factually inaccurate and could be considered libel.

First, Professor Phares’ personal ancestry and ethnic religious affiliation cannot be targeted in the context of political disagreement with his views. The so-called “Lebanese civil conflict” started in 1975 and became a Lebanese-Syrian conflict in 1978. Following Israel's invasion in 1982, it became a regional conflict in Lebanon. There were Christians in different political camps and Muslims in different political camps, as historians and research clearly shows. Dr. Phares started his public activities in 1979 by publishing a well-known book “Pluralism in Lebanon,” in which he called for a multiethnic society and federal solution where Christians and Muslims would have their rights recognized by a new secular and federal constitution. Dr. Phares published several books since, including “Democratic Dialogue” (1981), calling for debates among all ideological factions in the country and the “Iranian Islamic Revolution” (1987), projecting future strategies of the Khomeinist regime. Dr. Phares’ public lectures, statements and other booklets, as well as his representation of NGOs and political parties and coalitions, including a social democratic group he founded in 1987, have demonstrated his unwavering commitment to pluralism, federalism and to counter-terrorism. Such a volume of publications and activities can hardly be described as “on the Christian side of the brutal Lebanese civil conflict.” Such statements can lead readers to false conclusions.

Secondly, the edits claim that Dr. Phares is a mouthpiece of Islamophobia in America. This statement is baseless. If anything, Dr. Phares is known to have been the scholar who carefully made the distinction between Islam and Islamism and Islam and Jihadism - a distinction well established in the Arab media debates - where Dr. Phares appears regularly, in addition to his appearances in Western media. One can read Dr. Phares’ books since 1979, and particularly after 9/11, including his famous book “Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies against America” (2005), as well as “The War of Ideas: Jihadism against Democracy” (2007) and listen to his interviews and read his articles, and yet find not a single attack on or criticism of the religion of Islam. Furthermore, Dr. Phares is the leading scholar who has been calling for the support of reformers and democrats in the Middle East and Muslim world. His book “The Coming Revolution: Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East” (2010) was the only book that predicted the Arab Spring and called for helping Arab and Muslim peoples to free themselves from authoritarian regimes and fundamentalists.

In fact, Dr. Phares, aside from having been a promoter of social democratic change in the region for decades, has been at the forefront of supporting the regions’ liberals, as recognized by dozens of NGOs representing democracy groups and ethnic minorities.

It is unfortunate that some editors may have based their judgments on press releases initially issued by lobby groups who are opposed to Dr. Phares’ views on the region. I wished they have reached out to Dr. Phares to compare notes prior to engage in vandalism against his WikiPage, which is an integral part of his academic standing.

I urge you to learn more about Dr. Phares’ research by reading his books. I also ask you to please reach a compromise on this article and keep the slander/propaganda out of WikiPedia - the internet is already full of low credibility sites where these claims belong. JD (talk) 06:40, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Page protection

I have reverted the page to a version from 17th September (before this broke out) and locked it for a week. Please ensure that all contentious claims have very good sources, and there is no synthesis - content relating to something as serious as war crimes allegations needs ONE SOURCE that ties the chap to the war crimes, not statements created from multiple sources that only support half a sentence each.--Elen of the Roads (talk) 12:41, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Criticism of the subject of this article

I have tagged the page for lacking in coverage of all significant viewpoints. With the greatest respect to the drive by IPs madly deleting all critical content, it is verifiable that significant people have said this. However, I get the feeling there is more to be said on 'the other side' about this chap, and they would be better served by adding that, rather than removing this.--Elen of the Roads (talk) 19:42, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

The reference to Mr. Fares as "this chap" sounds like a condescending familiarity, to me. For me, person is much more neutrally-sounding. WillNess (talk) 15:35, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

New NEWS today, for future editing

Mr Walid Phares explains President Obama's stance.

Headline-1: Walid Phares Explains Obama's Strategy

• http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/11/16/walid_phares_explains_obama_s_strategy

QUOTE: "RUSH: I want you to listen to his answer again. Walid Phares on Fox News an hour and a half ago, he was asked the question everybody's asking, but everybody was intensely asking it after this embarrassment of an Obama press conference this morning. Walid Phares answering, "Why can't we take 'em out?" That was the question he's asked. Why can't we take 'em out? Why don't we take 'em out? What in the world, why doesn't Obama even act like they're the enemy?

PHARES: Actually we can and actually we should, but the president has a different strategy. He's getting a lot of pressure by the Iranians. Otherwise he should have long time ago allied himself, partnered with Arab moderate forces such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, UAE, they are fighting terrorism very much and very well in Yemen, in Sinai, in Libya, elsewhere, but the reason that he's not going to these moderate Arab forces and asking them on the ground to be boots on the ground is because the Iranians are pressuring him because the Syrian Regime is pressuring him. They don't want those areas, those Sunni areas to be liberated by Sunni moderates because they won't have access to them. That's the bottom line of it." -- AstroU (talk) 16:54, 17 November 2015 (UTC) -- PS: FYI for future editing.

FYI, Rush Limbaugh just mentioned that Walid Phares is a professor at National Defense University and a contributor on FoxNews.[1] -- AstroU (talk) 20:27, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Donald Trump

It should be noted, in light of the Brussels attacks, that commentators on Fox and Friends that Tuesday morning invited Walid Phares on and then noted that he is going to be working with Donald Trump's campaign for president as a foreign policy advisor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LaPorting4Duty (talk • contribs) 11:51, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Further reading

Collecting potential references listed in chronological order as of June 7, 2016: Oceanflynn (talk) 17:21, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

• Phares, Walid (1992). "The Syria-Iran axis". Journal of Global Affairs. Unable to find either the journal or article.

• Ehteshami, Anoushiravan; Hinnebusch, Raymond A. (1997), Syria and Iran: Middle powers in a penetrated regional system (PDF), London and New York: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-15675-0

"Walid Phares (1992) applies an unnuanced version of this approach to the Syrian-Iranian alliance. He argues that this ‘axis’ has a long-term plan to challenge the West. Driven by unrelenting revisionism, Syria’s despotic Alawi dictatorship seeks the destabilization of moderate regimes, the annexation of Lebanon and the destruction of Israel. Iran seeks to export Islamic revolution against moderate Gulf regimes, in the first instance, but also to Central Asia, Egypt and the Maghreb as part of a struggle against American influence in the region. Both use Israel as a scapegoat and means of legitimizing their mission. Both aim to destroy the peace process. They resort, he claims, to all forms of coercion, from the threat of weapons of mass destruction to terrorism. They head a new Comintern of subversive movements throughout the Middle East and have made Lebanon, especially the Bekaa Valley, a headquarters of international terrorism. They seek to replace Saddam with a sympathetic Iraqi government, thus establishing territorial contiguity from Lebanon to Pakistan, and laying the foundations of a new Arab-Islamic empire. While this view may be more alarmist than most, milder versions of it hold wide currency in policy-making spheres."

— Anoushiravan and Hinnebusch. 1997:2-3

• Mullen, Ann (April 30, 2003), "Black-eyed pleas", Metro Times, retrieved June 7, 2016 {{citation}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |work= (help)

The trial of the Detroit Sleeper Cell which included Karim Koubriti and Abdel-Ilah Elmardoudi ended with a conviction in June 2003 with charges that included "conspiracy to provide material support for terrorism." The conviction was the "hailed by the Bush administration as a major victory in the war on terror." It was the "first terrorism-related trial to result from federal investigations since the September 11 attacks." During a raid police found "105 audio tapes" that were used as evidence. A judge threw out the charges in 2004.

"Dr. Walid Phares, a professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Florida Atlantic University, testified as an expert witness about the tapes. According to Phares, the tapes are lectures about the Salafist movement, a fundamental Islamic group that advocates violence against Christians, Jews and nonpracticing Muslims. The lectures were given in Egypt, he said. Phares admitted that the tapes did not outline a specific mission, but did call for jihad and economic jihad."

— Ann Mullen, Metro Times, April 30, 2003

• Phares, Walid (July 17, 2004), A letter to the Maronite Council of Bishops: On the Identity of the Maronites, The World Maronite Union, Washington DC, retrieved June 7, 2016{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Walid Phares, Secretary General World Maronite Union

• "Judge throws out terror convictions", USA Today, September 1, 2004, retrieved June 7, 2016

• Amy Waldman (October 2006), "Prophetic Justice", The Atlantic, retrieved June 7, 2016

Walman's article can be used as inline citation for certain facts about Phares. He "emigrated to the United States in 1990, at the end of Lebanon’s civil war between Muslims and Christians."

[Phares, is] "a Lebanese Christian academic who emigrated to the United States in 1990, at the end of Lebanon’s civil war between Muslims and Christians. El Fadl, his fellow prosecution witness, calls Phares an “Islamophobe,” and at trial the defense sought to demonstrate as much. By his own characterization, Phares, an associate professor at Florida Atlantic University, was outside the academic mainstream until 9/11. But since the attacks, he has become a prominent public commentator on the dangers of “jihadism.” He is an analyst on MSNBC, the author of Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies Against America, and a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies."

— Amy Waldman 2006

Walid wrote dozens of articles published in David Horowitz' FrontPage Magazine between 2003 and 2009. He was described as a senior fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington DC.

• Phares, Walid (October 6, 2003). Horowitz, David (ed.). "Lessons From the Haifa Suicide Attack". FrontPage Magazine. Retrieved January 19, 2008. Edited by David Horowitz

• Phares, Walid (October 10, 2003). Horowitz, David (ed.). "All Jihad Roads Lead to Damascus". FrontPage Magazine. Retrieved January 19, 2008. Edited by David Horowitz

• Phares, Walid (May 21, 2009). Horowitz, David (ed.). "Al-Qaeda's Plan C". FrontPage Magazine. Retrieved January 19, 2008. Edited by David Horowitz

• Phares, Walid (2005). Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies Against America. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.

• Phares, Walid (November 17, 2005). Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies Against America. St. Martin's Press. p. 277. ISBN 1403970742.

"This Foreign Affairs bestseller from MSNBC terrorism expert Walid Phares allows a frightening look into the future of jihad. Phares--who has served as an expert with the Justice Department, briefed the Defense and State Departments, and testified to Congress--shows that there has been a fundamental misunderstanding about Al-Qaeda's ultimate goal in the West and what victory means to jihadists. Future Jihad shows how our defenses have been infiltrated; identifies the future generation of home-grown terrorists; and points the way for America to win the ideological war at the heart of jihad."

— MacMillan 2005

→From Google books

"About the author: Walid Phares is a world-renowned terrorism and Middle East expert. He is a senior fellow at The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and a visiting fellow at the European Foundation for Democracy. He is an analyst on MSNBC, has testified before the State Department many times, and has led NGO delegations to discuss Middle East terrorism with the UN Security Council. He is also a professor of Middle East studies, ethnic and religious conflict at Florida Atlantic University. He has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, NBC, C-SPAN, al Jazeera, al Hurra, Fox News, and Abu Dhabi TV, among others, and is a frequent contributor to U.S. and international radio programs. He is the author of several books, including The War of Ideas: Jihad against Democracy."

• Sinai, Joshua (November 27, 2005). "Jihadi strategies, security handbook". The Washington Times via HighBeam. Retrieved January 19, 2008. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |work= (help)

→Middle East expert and scholar Walid Phares' analysis of the Mujahideen movement and strategies it employs in the Jihadist war against the West.

• Patrick O'Connor (July 31, 2007). "The GOP Summer Reading List". CBS News. Retrieved January 9, 2008.

→In 2007 "Future Jihad" was on the list of six recommended books to read during the 2007 summer recess for the Republican representatives.

→From Goodreads

• DeBlanck, Roger (August 10, 2015). ""Roger DeBlanck's Review of Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies against America". Retrieved June 7, 2016.

• Phares, Walid (March 18, 2008). The War of Ideas: Jihadism against Democracy. St. Martin's Griffin. p. 288. ISBN 023060255X.

→From Amazon,

"... This is the War of Ideas, where ideology is the most powerful weapon. Phares looks at the two opposing camps, one standing for democracy and human rights, the other rejecting the global community and calling for jihad against the West. He reveals the strategies of both sides, explaining how new technology and the jihadists' media savvy have raised the stakes in the conflict. And most urgently, he warns that we are in danger of losing the war, for while debate and theorizing rarely lead to action, ideas and deeds are inextricably linked for the forces of jihad."

— Amazon

• "International Lawmakers Sign Historic Declaration Condemning Iran's Human Rights Abuses", States News Service via HighBeam, Washington DC and Brussels, September 28, 2009, retrieved June 7, 2016 Walid Phares was Co-Secretary General of the Trans Atlantic Legislative Group on Counter Terrorism.

"On Tuesday, September 22, 2009, Members of the US Congress, Members of European Parliament and a Member of the Canadian Parliament signed an historic document condemning Iran's continued human rights abuses. This document was signed at the second Trans-Atlantic Group on Counter Terrorism, or TAG, summit hosted by TAG."

— States News Service

• Phares, Walid (November 9, 2010), "Prosecute Hezbollah: There is no hope for Lebanon unless the U.N. and the West will enforce the tribunal's findings on the Hariri assassination", Wall Street Journal, retrieved June 7, 2016 {{citation}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |work= (help)

"Mr. Phares is the director of the Future Terrorism Project at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Fox News contributor, and author of The Confrontation: Winning the War against Future Jihad (Palgrave MacMillan, 2008)."

— Wall Street Journal 2010

• Brigitte Gabriel (April 6, 2011), ACT! for America exclusive interview with Dr. Walid Phares, ACT! for America, retrieved June 7, 2016

• Ali, Wajahat; Clifton, Eli; Duss, Matthew; Fang, Lee; Keyes, Scott; Shakir, Faiz (August 2011), "Fear, Inc. The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America" (PDF), Center for American Progress, retrieved June 7, 2016

Phares warns that "jihadists within the West pose as civil rights advocates" and patiently recruit until "[a]lmost all mosques, educational centers, and socioeconomic institutions fall into their hands." [Phares is a member] of the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies, which proclaims itself “the nation’s leading counterintelligence training, education and knowledge company.” The center serves as a vital node connecting several of the individuals we profile in this report. The for-profit company "posits radical Islam as a new global ideological menace on the order of the old communist threat from the Soviet Union."

— "Fear, Inc. The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America" 2011

Articles critical of Romney's appointment of Walid Phares

• As'ad AbuKhalil (October 7, 2011), "Romney's scary Middle East advisor", Salon

• Vary, Jarad (October 23, 2011). "Meet Mitt Romney's Radical, Right-wing, Sharia-phobe Foreign Policy Advisor". Retrieved June 7, 2016.

• Serwer, Adam (October 27, 2016), Top Romney Adviser Tied to Militia That Massacred: How Walid Phares went from advising Lebanese warlords to counseling the GOP front-runner, Mother Jones, retrieved June 7, 2016

• Gharib, Ali (October 27, 2011), "Top Romney Adviser Tied To Christian Militia That Committed Atrocities In Lebanon's Civil War", Think Progress, retrieved June 7, 2016 Center for American Progress

→Gharab noted that Phares was on the advisory board of Washington, D.C.-based Clarion Project, "Clarion Project supports voices fighting for human rights and provides a platform for challenging Islamic extremism through facts" in 2011.

• Ben Smith (October 2011). "Romney and Phares". Politico. Retrieved June 7, 2016.

→Journalist Ben Smith reported that the U.S. Muslim group Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) requested that Romney drop Walid Phares, as his foreign policy adviser. Smith described Phares, as "an adjunct professor of Jihadist Global Strategies at the National Defense University and adviser to a number of conservative foreign policy figures." Smith notes that "Lebanese Christians like Brigitte Gabriel play a leading role in an "anti-Jihadist" movement that has deep suspicions about Islam in any form." Smith included an email from Jed Ipsen, one of Phares supporters who claimed that ""Dr. Phares’ public lectures, statements and other booklets, as well as his representation of NGOs and political parties and coalitions, including a social democratic group he founded in 1987, have demonstrated his unwavering commitment to pluralism, federalism and to counter-terrorism, including by Syria and Hezbollah. ... Dr. Phares, who is part of the Arab debate, supports Muslims who are progressive, liberal and pro-democracy versus the fundamentalists, both Salafists and Khomeinists. This doesn't endear him to groups who are Islamist (and that's their choice). But, the problem is that these groups criticize him as a critic of Islam, which he is not. His books are very clear, particularly "The War of Ideas."

• McKay Coppins (October 12, 2011), "Mitt's Muslim Problem: As Romney fends off attacks on his Mormon faith, he may soon face allegations of insensitivity toward Muslims. McKay Coppins on the Islamic uproar over a new Romney adviser's troubling past", The Daily Beast, retrieved June 7, 2016

"Yet Phares is a divisive figure in the minds of some leading U.S. Muslims. To admirers, Phares is a well-regarded scholar who has testified before the Defense and State departments, and has worked as a terrorism expert for professional news outlets such as NBC and, most recently, Fox News. But to critics, Phares has long been a lightning rod for charges of Islamophobia and outright aggression toward Muslims."

— McKay Coppins

In response to these articles

• Loyola, Mario (October 31, 2011), "The Jihad against Walid Phares: CAIR and 'Mother Jones' target a Romney adviser", National Review, retrieved June 7, 2016 Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)

• Serwer, Adam (October 27, 2011), The War Over Walid Phares' Wikipedia Page, Mother Jones, retrieved June 7, 2016

• "Walid Phares Explains Obama's Strategy", Rush Limbaugh, November 16, 2015, retrieved June 7, 2016

→In 2015 Walid was interviewed by Rush Limbaugh on the Rush Limbaugh Show,

[President Obama] is "getting a lot of pressure by the Iranians. Otherwise he should have long time ago allied himself, partnered with Arab moderate forces such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, UAE, they are fighting terrorism very much and very well in Yemen, in Sinai, in Libya, elsewhere, but the reason that he's not going to these moderate Arab forces and asking them on the ground to be boots on the ground is because the Iranians are pressuring him because the Syrian Regime is pressuring him. They don't want those areas, those Sunni areas to be liberated by Sunni moderates because they won't have access to them. That's the bottom line of it."

— Walid Phares on The Rush Limbaugh Show November 16, 2015

• "FAU presents a lecture with Walid Phares, author ofThe Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East", FAU, Boca Raton, Florida, March 15, 2011, retrieved June 7, 2016 Biographical information

"There have been nearly a hundred edits to Phares' Wikipedia page during October [2011] alone, most involving his relationship to the Lebanese Forces; the edit wars on his page go back to 2005."

— Adam Serwer 2011

• Phares, Walid (April 29, 2015), Biography Walid Phares (PDF), United States House of Representatives Document Repository, retrieved June 7, 2016

• Dahl, Tera (April 18, 2016), "The Lobby War on Walid Phares Shows Influence of Iran, Muslim Brotherhood in U.S. Politics", Breitbart, retrieved June 7, 2016

• Phares, Walid (June 12, 2014), Expanding Iran’s borders: the marching threat, retrieved June 7, 2016

" During the 1990s, first in an article in the Journal of Global Affairs in 1992 titled “The Syria-Iran axis,” then in several Op-Ed pieces and briefings, I projected the Khomeinist march through Syria into Lebanon in the direction of the international borders. In March of 2000 at a meeting at the U.N., I argued that the southern region of Lebanon should be transferred to an international force under chapter 7 after Israel’s withdrawal; otherwise, the Ayatollahs would ignite wars on the Eastern Mediterranean at their will. And so they did, via Hezbollah—including the conflict of 2006."

— Walid Phares 2014

• Rucker, Philip; Costa, Robert (March 21, 2016). "Trump questions need for NATO, outlines noninterventionist foreign policy". Washington Post. Retrieved June 7, 2016. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |work= (help)

"For the first time, Trump also listed members of a team chaired by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) that is counseling him on foreign affairs and helping to shape his policies: Keith Kellogg, Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, Walid Phares and Joseph E. Schmitz."

— Washington Post, March 21, 2016

""Walid Phares, who you probably know. PhD, adviser to the House of Representatives. He’s a counterterrorism expert." Trump

• Tharoor, Ishaan (March 22, 2016). "The dark, controversial past of Trump's counterterrorism adviser". Washington Post. Retrieved June 7, 2016. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |work= (help)

"...during a press conference at the Trump International Hotel in Washington on March 21, 2016. Trump, not known for his foreign policy expertise, on March 21 unveiled a team of advisers drawn from the energy industry and the fringes of Washington's international affairs establishment...Phares, who is a Lebanese-born Maronite Christian, has been a frequent guest on Fox News who has established himself as a pundit on the threat of radical Islam...a one-time senior adviser to 2012 GOP candidate Mitt Romney and a provost at BAU International University...

— Washington Post

• Murphy, Tim (March 22, 2016), Does Donald Trump Think His Top Foreign Policy Adviser Is Muslim?, Mother Jones, retrieved June 7, 2016

→According to the Mother Jones article, in 2011 journalist Adam Serwer reported that in the 1980s, "Phares, a Maronite Christian, trained Lebanese militants" and served as a "top political official in a sectarian Christian militia in Lebanon."

• "Walid Phares". Right Web: Tracking militarists’ efforts to influence U.S. foreign policy.

• Inskeep, Steven (March 23, 2016), "Trump Foreign Policy Adviser Hopes To Talk Him Out Of Torture", NPR

"Phares defended Trump's repeated statements on torture as not an actual policy but as "a reaction to a very complex and difficult and challenging situation." Trump is calling for torture "because we are in a political season," he said, but in the White House "he's going to be tasking experts to answer that question, and I'm not sure that the experts are going to recommend any form of torture."

— NPR March 23, 2016

• "Trump and the world: Don't deal with it: If Donald Trump wins the nomination he is likely to ditch half a century of Republican thinking on foreign policy", The Economist, Washington, DC, March 26, 2016, retrieved June 7, 2016

"The little-known advisers named by Mr Trump shed only limited light on his views. They include Joseph Schmitz, a Pentagon inspector general under George W. Bush; Walid Phares, a Lebanese Christian academic who has in the past advised warlords in Lebanon; J. Keith Kellogg Jr., a retired army lieutenant-general and former chief operating officer for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad; and Carter Page, a businessman and analyst specialising in the oil and gas industry in the former Soviet block."

— The Economist

• Phares, Walid (April 27, 2016). "Walid Phares: Trump lays out a new vision for American foreign policy leadership". Fox News. Retrieved June 7, 2016.

• Mauro, Ryan (April 19, 2016), "Accusations Against Trump Advisor by Islamists Proven False: The 'case' against Walid Phares has been shattered, as has been the credibility of the media outlets who put their political agenda ahead of the truth", Clarion Project {{citation}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)

• Interview with Walid Phares: FDD Senior Fellow Walid Phares discusses the future of terrorism, Washington, DC: Foundation for Defense of Democracies: Fighting Terrorism and Promoting Freedom, June 7, 2016

Not sure if his opinion on the Ukrainian crisis belongs here....

..... but he believed that the role that the United States had been playing in the Donbas peace process, should be taken over by Germany. Read more on UNIAN here — Yulia Romero • Talk to me! 16:04, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

NPOV

The neutrality of this article has been disputed over the last decade and it is clear it remains the subject of editorializing.

• The quote that "He is 'considered as one of the best strategic minds in the world on US national security... He was proven right in every single prediction he made for America in his book Future Jihad.'" is clearly an example of puffery, an "unprovable proclamation about a subject's importance," a violation of WP: Peacock.

This would only be acceptable if this was a well-supported assertion by reputable sources. The citation to back this up is from an opinion piece in the Jerusalem Post and an editor's note makes clear the author of this piece is a former Israeli intelligence officer. This is not an acceptable source. Cjmithli (talk) 20:55, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

New Edit War

–It seems there has been a recent Edit War on this page. It is very unfortunate that a Wikipedia biography has turned into a propaganda battlefield. The Wikipedia community and the people visiting this page expect and deserve a neutral and factually correct representation of Walid Phares' life work, not a sourcing of second and third rate online articles written against Dr Phares during American presidential campaigns to score political points against the presidential candidates he advised,i.e Mitt Romney and Donald Trump. I respectfully call on all active editors to refrain from applying any political agenda while editing Dr Phares' page because they are abusing the people's trust in the Wikipedia project. A consensus must be reached and I will be happy to collaborate with other editors to put together a neutral and informative version of this article. Judge1975 (talk) 23:55, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

Agree. Have pretty much resigned wikipedia as an opinion site. --Wikipietime (talk) 13:20, 31 October 2017 (UTC)