M. Zuhdi Jasser
<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 notorious Islamophoboe Daniel Pipes.[1] [2] The group also has Pipes' endorsement of course.[3]. In a debate on CNN, he was accused of Islamophobia by Islam scholar Reza Aslan for making wild accusations about the funding of a new Islamic centre in New York. He is a backer of far-right pro-Israel Republican Joshua Scharf.
Affiliations
Organizations
- American Islamic Forum for Democracy - founder and sole member until 2007
- Center for Islamic Pluralism
- 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.
- Middle East Forum - Jasser is a contributor to Daniel Pipes's far right Middle East Quarterly.
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
