Ryan Mauro (born 1986) is an American national security analyst. He has worked for the

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and frequently appeared on

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providing commentary on

Islamic extremism Islamic extremism refers to extremist beliefs, behaviors and ideologies adhered to by some Muslims within Islam. The term 'Islamic extremism' is contentious, encompassing a spectrum of definitions, ranging from academic interpretations of Is ...

. He is currently an investigative researcher for

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Career

Mauro has been a contributor to ''

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'', the

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's ''Islamist Watch'', and to the Center for Security Policy's Secure Freedom Radio. He has also been listed as a team member of the Christian Action Network, and collaborated with ACT for America. 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, and for the Homeland Security Professionals Conference in Florida. His presentations have been protested by groups such as the

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(CAIR). Mauro in turn claims that CAIR has ties to terrorism. 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.

Views

Mauro has been accused of promoting policies that criminalize Muslims and Muslim communities, and anti-Muslim

conspiracy theories A conspiracy theory is an explanation for an event or situation that asserts the existence of a conspiracy (generally by powerful sinister groups, often political in motivation), when other explanations are more probable.Additional sources: * ...

such as no-go zones in the United States. He has also "long warned about active Muslim terror training camps in the United States, and has argued that the

Muslim Brotherhood The Society of the Muslim Brothers ('' ''), better known as the Muslim Brotherhood ( ', is a transnational Sunni Islamist organization founded in Egypt by Islamic scholar, Imam and schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna in 1928. Al-Banna's teachings s ...

has infiltrated the Republican Party." 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." He has been described as a part of the

counter-jihad Counter-jihad (also known as the counter-jihad movement) is a self-titled Islamophobia, anti-Muslim political movement loosely consisting of authors, bloggers, think tanks, demonstrators, and other activists across the Western world. Proponents are ...

movement.

Bible theories

In 2018, Mauro produced a viral video on

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with The Doubting Thomas Research Foundation, claiming that the

biblical Mount Sinai Mount Sinai (, ''Har Sīnay'') is the mountain at which the Ten Commandments were given to the Prophets in Judaism, Hebrew prophet Moses by God in Judaism, God, according to the Book of Exodus in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. In the Book of ...

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 In Abrahamic religions, Moses was the Hebrews, Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites out of slavery in the The Exodus, Exodus from ancient Egypt, Egypt. He is considered the most important Prophets in Judaism, prophet in Judaism and Samaritani ...

and the Hebrews to cross from Egypt into the Arabian Peninsula when the Red Sea parted during

the Exodus The Exodus (Hebrew language, Hebrew: יציאת מצרים, ''Yəṣīʾat Mīṣrayīm'': ) is the Origin myth#Founding myth, founding myth of the Israelites whose narrative is spread over four of the five books of the Torah, Pentateuch (specif ...

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