Islamic Studies Foundation

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The Islamic Studies Foundation (ISF) is a nationally known academic and political studies group based on the campus of University of California, San Diego. The Foundation specializes in critical examinations of worldwide Islamic violence and the psychological manifestations of Islamic adherents.

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The ISF was founded in 1979 by UCSD Political Science Professor Wilbert Staynes Richardson in the wake of emerging Islamic fundamentalism in Iran. Since 1981, the Foundation has annually hosted the "Islamic Forum", a two week residence work-shop for historians, government officials, psychologists, and psychiatrists focusing on the examination of Islam as a mental disease process mainly attributable to repressed homosexuality and transvestism among Islamic men. Past participants include U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, and former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The ISF publishes a quarterly journal, "The Critic", a compilation of research and exposition on abnormal Islamic psychology.