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Gaffney, known for his "long history of pushing extreme anti-Muslim views", wrote weekly columns for ''The Washington Times'' from the late 1990s to 2016.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Clifton|first=Eli|date=December 8, 2015|title=Meet Donald Trump's Islamophobia Expert|work=[[Foreign Policy]]|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/12/08/donald-trump-frank-gaffney-islamophobia-poll/|url-status=live|access-date=December 25, 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20160315145247/http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/12/08/donald-trump-frank-gaffney-islamophobia-poll/|archive-date=March 15, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Beinart|first=Peter|author-link=Peter Beinart|date=March 19, 2017|title=Frank Gaffney's Campaign to Denationalize American Muslims|work=[[The Atlantic]]|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/frank-gaffney-donald-trump-and-the-denationalization-of-american-muslims/519954/|url-status=live|url-access=limited|access-date=December 25, 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170319230057/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/frank-gaffney-donald-trump-and-the-denationalization-of-american-muslims/519954/|archive-date=March 19, 2017}}</ref> According to [[John Esposito]], a Professor of Religion and International Affairs and of Islamic Studies at [[Georgetown University]], Gaffney's "editorial track record in the ''Washington Times'' is long on accusation and short on supportive evidence."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Esposito|first=John L.|title=The Future of Islam|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2010|isbn=9780199975778|page=19|chapter=The Many Faces of Islam and Muslims|lccn=2009018732|author-link=John Esposito|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/futureofislam0000espo#page/18/mode/2up|chapter-url-access=registration}}</ref> In columns for the ''Times'', Gaffney helped to popularize conspiracy theories that Islamic terrorists were infiltrating the Bush administration, the conservative movement and the Obama administration.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bail|first=Christopher A.|title=Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=2015|isbn=9780691159423|pages=49–51, 99|lccn=2014947502}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Terkel|first=Amanda|date=August 1, 2012|title=Frank Gaffney Plotting To Take Down Grover Norquist With Muslim Brotherhood Accusations|work=[[The Huffington Post]]|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/frank-gaffney-grover-norquist-muslim-brotherhood_n_1699604|url-status=live|access-date=December 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140821135129/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/01/frank-gaffney-grover-norquist-muslim-brotherhood_n_1699604.html|archive-date=August 21, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Swan|first=Betsy|author-link=Betsy Woodruff Swan|date=December 15, 2015|title=Cruz's Cozy Ties To DC's Most Prominent, Paranoid Islamophobe|work=[[The Daily Beast]]|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/15/cruz-s-cozy-ties-to-dc-s-most-prominent-paranoid-islamophobe|url-status=live|access-date=December 25, 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200428222736/https://www.thedailybeast.com/cruzs-cozy-ties-to-dcs-most-prominent-paranoid-islamophobe|archive-date=April 28, 2020}}</ref> In 2015, the ''Times'' published a column describing refugees fleeing the [[Syrian Civil War]] as an "Islamic [[Trojan Horse]]" conducting a "'jihad' by another name".<ref>{{Cite news|last=Stuster|first=J. Dana|date=December 14, 2015|title=The paranoid style in Islamophobic politics|work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]|url=https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/presidential-campaign/262953-the-paranoid-style-in-islamophobic-politics|url-status=live|access-date=December 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170225101255/https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/presidential-campaign/262953-the-paranoid-style-in-islamophobic-politics|archive-date=February 25, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Stableford|first=Dylan|date=December 15, 2016|title=Monica Crowley, latest addition to Trump's national security team, believes in fighting Islam 'the way we fought the Nazis'|work=[[Yahoo! News]]|url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/monica-crowley-latest-addition-to-trumps-national-security-team-believes-in-fighting-islam-the-way-we-fought-the-nazis-212132606.html|url-status=live|access-date=December 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170102154701/https://www.yahoo.com/news/monica-crowley-latest-addition-to-trumps-national-security-team-believes-in-fighting-islam-the-way-we-fought-the-nazis-212132606.html|archive-date=January 2, 2017}}</ref>
The Muslim advocacy group [[Council on American–Islamic Relations]] listed ''The Washington Times'' among media outlets it said "regularly demonstrates or supports Islamophobic themes."<ref name="deseretnews.com">{{Cite news|last=Winston|first=Kimberly|url=https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865656561/Report-says-list-of-6Islamophobic-groups7-reaches-new-high.html|title=Report says list of 'Islamophobic groups' reaches new high|date=June 20, 2016|work=[[Deseret News]]|access-date=December 25, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418035701/https://www.deseret.com/2016/6/20/20590586/report-says-list-of-islamophobic-groups-reaches-new-high|archive-date=April 18, 2020|agency=[[Religion News Service]]}}</ref> In 1998, the Egyptian newspaper ''[[Al-Ahram]]'' wrote that ''The Washington Times'' its editorial policy was "rabidly anti-[[Arab people|Arab]], anti-Muslim and pro-Israel."<ref>{{Cite news|last=Nafie|first=Ibrahim|url=http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/1998/403/op1.htm|title=The same old game|date=November 12–18, 1998|work=[[Al-Ahram]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090215193404/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/1998/403/op1.htm|archive-date=February 15, 2009|issue=403|author-link=Ebrahim Nafae}}</ref>
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