Ryan Mauro
Ryan Mauro (born 1986) is an American national security analyst. He has worked for the Clarion Project and frequently appeared on Fox News providing commentary on Islamic extremism.[1][2][3] He is currently an investigative researcher for Capital Research Center.[4]
Career[edit]
Mauro has been a contributor to FrontPage Magazine, the Middle East Forum's Islamist Watch, and to the Center for Security Policy's Secure Freedom Radio.[1] He has also been listed as a team member of the Christian Action Network, and collaborated with ACT for America.[1]
As a national security analyst for the Clarion Project, he has held presentations for Tactical Officers law enforcement conferences in New York and in California,[1][2][3] and for the Homeland Security Professionals Conference in Florida.[5] His presentations have been protested by groups such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).[6] Mauro in turn claims that CAIR has ties to terrorism.[2]
More recently, Mauro has been the founding director of the Afghan Liberty Project, which provided safe houses to Afghans at risk until it was announced it would shut down in 2022 due to lack of funding.[7]
Views[edit]
Mauro has been accused of promoting policies that criminalize Muslims and Muslim communities, and anti-Muslim conspiracy theories such as no-go zones in the United States.[1] He has also "long warned about active Muslim terror training camps in the United States, and has argued that the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated the Republican Party."[3]
He rejects that he is anti-Muslim, and has claimed that "if anyone comes away from my presentations feeling anti-Muslim, they aren't listening" and that "significant portions of each presentation are about the danger of anti-Muslim sentiment and the wonderful work of Muslims in America and abroad."[2]
He has been described as a part of the counter-jihad movement.[8]
Bible theories[edit]
In 2018, Mauro produced a viral video on YouTube with The Doubting Thomas Research Foundation, claiming that the biblical Mount Sinai is actually the modern-day Jebel al-Lawz in Saudi Arabia. Supporting his view, he claims that the shallow underwater land bridge called the "Nuweiba Land Bridge" could have been used by Moses and the Hebrews to cross from Egypt into the Arabian Peninsula when the Red Sea parted during the Exodus.[9][10]
Works[edit]
- Death to America: The Unreported Battle of Iraq. PublishAmerica. 2005. ISBN 978-1413774733.
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e "Factsheet: Ryan Mauro". Bridge Initiative. Georgetown University. April 3, 2018.
- ^ a b c d Mathias, Christopher (April 29, 2016). "This Islamophobic Conspiracy Theorist Lectured Police Officers About Islamic Extremism". Huffington Post.
- ^ a b c Asher-Schapiro, Avi (April 27, 2016). "Hundreds of US Cops Gather to Hear Accused Islamophobe Lecture on Islam and Terrorism". Vice News.
- ^ "Ryan Mauro". Capital Research Center. Retrieved October 15, 2023.
- ^ Piggott, Stephen (October 20, 2016). "Anti-Muslim National Security "Expert" Ryan Mauro to Address Homeland Security Professionals Conference". Southern Poverty Law Center.
- ^ Ansari, Talal (April 26, 2016). "Groups Denounce Anti-Muslim "Extremist" Speaking At Police Conference". BuzzFeed News.
- ^ Grim, Ryan (June 23, 2022). "Network of Safe Houses in Afghanistan to Shut Down as Funding Dries Up". The Intercept.
- ^ Pertwee, Ed (October 2017). 'Green Crescent, Crimson Cross': The Transatlantic 'Counterjihad' and the New Political Theology (PDF). London School of Economics. p. 268.
- ^ Gryboski, Michael (December 23, 2018). "Viral online film argues Exodus went into Saudi Arabia, Mt. Sinai located in Muslim nation". The Christian Post.
- ^ "'Simply Mind-Blowing': Researchers Believe They've Discovered the Route Moses Took Out of Egypt". CBN News. April 16, 2019.