Salim Mansur

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Salim Mansur, PhD, is a Muslim and is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario Canada. He is a writer for the London Free Press, the Toronto Sun, ProudToBeCanadian.ca, and numerous publications including National Review, the Middle East Forum and Frontpagemag. He often presents analysis on the Muslim world, Islam, South Asia, Middle East.

He is a member of the Board of Directors for the Center for Islamic Pluralism based in Washington, D.C., a Senior Fellow with the Canadian Coalition for Democracies, and an academic-consultant with the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C. He has been a consultant with CIDA on development issues and has published widely in academic journals on foreign policy matters and area studies of the Middle East and South Asia.

He is featured on the documentary Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West. Mansur also unsuccessfully ran for the Canadian Alliance party in 2000.

On October 20, 2007 he wrote an article for the Toronto Sun (http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Mansur_Salim/2007/10/20/4590878.php) titled: "Time to end the charade".

[edit] Criticisms

Mansur has been criticized by Canadian Islamic Congress for using "provocative, self-serving rhetoric"[1], and for "promoting an anti-Arab and anti-Muslim agenda"[2].