Original sentence: The Center's hardline views, especially on radical Islam, have caused it to be criticized for propagating conspiracy theories and Islamophobia, mostly by the left but also by some sources on the right
Edited sentence: '” The Center for Democratic Values at Queens College, City University of New York has said the Center is among the "key players in the Sharīʿah cottage industry," what it describes as a "conspiracy theory" that claims the existence of "secretive power elite groups that conspire to replace sovereign nation-states in order to eventually rule the world., to be criticized for propagating conspiracy theories by Reason , American Conservative Magazine , the Washington Post, Salon, Peter Bergen, Grover Norquist , Philip Giraldi, Jonathan Kay , Georgetown University's Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim–Christian Understanding, Center for American Progress, Media Matters for America,, The Nation, the Southern Poverty Law Center , The Intercept , the Anti-Defamation League, and the Institute for Southern Studies , among others.The Center's views have caused it and the Center's founder and President, Frank Gaffney, Jr.The Hill has characterized the group as "an extremist think tank"  while the University of Southern California's Annenberg Center for Communication has described the organization as "a far-right think tank whose president, Frank Gaffney, was banned from the CPAC [Conservative Political Action Conference] ... because its organizers believed him to be a 'crazy bigot