Difference between revisions of "M. Zuhdi Jasser"
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*[[Center for Islamic Pluralism]] - a founding member | *[[Center for Islamic Pluralism]] - a founding member | ||
*[[Center for Security Policy]] - winner of the "Defender of the Home Front" award at CSP's annual Keeper of the Flame Dinner. | *[[Center for Security Policy]] - winner of the "Defender of the Home Front" award at CSP's annual Keeper of the Flame Dinner. | ||
| − | *[[Clarion Fund]] - Jasser narrates and makes an appearance in [[Aish HaTorah]] Rabbi [[Raphael Shore]]'s film [[The Third Jihad]] | + | *[[Clarion Fund]] - Jasser narrates and makes an appearance in [[Aish HaTorah]] Rabbi [[Raphael Shore]]'s film [[The Third Jihad]], described by writer Richard Silverstein 'an anti-Muslim train wreck of a film 'that reedks of partisan political bias' |
*[[Committee on the Present Danger]] - member | *[[Committee on the Present Danger]] - member | ||
*[[Family Security Matters]] - a far right publication to which Jasser contributes. | *[[Family Security Matters]] - a far right publication to which Jasser contributes. | ||
Revision as of 05:01, 2 March 2015
<youtube size="tiny" align="right" caption="Reza Aslan accuses M. Zuhdi Jasser of Islamophobia for making false claims about the funding of a new Islamic Centre in Manhattan">JOp4O9FwzRw</youtube>M. Zuhdi Jasser, a Syrian-American, runs the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, a right-wing one-man-show he founded in 2003. He is also "one of the founding members" of Center for Islamic Pluralism (CIP), an organization set up by Daniel Pipes.[1] [2] The group also has Pipes' endorsement.[3] In a debate on CNN, he was accused of Islamophobia by Islam scholar Reza Aslan for making accusations about the funding of a new Islamic centre in New York. He is a backer of far-right pro-Israel Republican Joshua Scharf;[4] and he was also an active player in the Islamophobic 'Ground Zero Mosque' campaign.
Affiliations
Organizations
- Center for Security Policy - Contributor to CSP front group Family Security Matters
- American Islamic Forum for Democracy - founder and sole member until 2007
- Center for Islamic Pluralism - a founding member
- Center for Security Policy - winner of the "Defender of the Home Front" award at CSP's annual Keeper of the Flame Dinner.
- Clarion Fund - Jasser narrates and makes an appearance in Aish HaTorah Rabbi Raphael Shore's film The Third Jihad, described by writer Richard Silverstein 'an anti-Muslim train wreck of a film 'that reedks of partisan political bias'
- Committee on the Present Danger - member
- Family Security Matters - a far right publication to which Jasser contributes.
- Middle East Forum - Jasser is a contributor to Daniel Pipes's far right Middle East Quarterly.
- Hudson Institute - Jasser is a contributor to its inhouse publication Hudson New York
Associates
- Daniel Pipes - Jasser is 'one of the founding members' of Pipes's Center for Islamic Pluralism.
- Zeyno Baran - Jasser has contributed a chapter to Baran's new book The Other Muslims: Moderate and Secular (Palgrave Macmillan)
References
- ↑ About (AIFD)
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Andrew Maykuth, "Battle for the Heart of Islam," The Philadelphia Inquirer, 30 December 2005
- ↑ Richard Silverstein, Radical Islam wants you...and America, Tikun Olam, 2 October 2008
