If that was not enough, she went on to accuse Almontaser of “whitewash[ing] the genocide against the Jews.” Daniel Pipes, who also took part in the campaigns against Massad and the Boston Islamic center, claimed the school should be stopped because “Arabic-language instruction is inevitably laden with Pan-Arabist and Islamist baggage.” The campaign reached fever pitch when the Islamophobes found a picture of a T-shirt with the slogan “Intifada NYC” produced by the group Arab Women Active in the Arts and Media (AWAAM), a local Arab feminist organization. The weak connection between AWAAM and Almontaser is that they share an office with the Yemeni-American association on whose board Almontaser sits. This was all the Islamophobes needed to brand Almontaser as a jihadist.

XREF: Connects to broader patterns of Islamophobic smear campaigns and guilt-by-association tactics in public discourse.

Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politi…, loc. 531