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<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]].<ref>[http://www.aifdemocracy.org/about/ About (AIFD)]</ref> <ref>[http://www.aifdemocracy.org/news.php?id=1879]</ref> The group also has Pipes' endorsement.<ref>Andrew Maykuth, [http://web.archive.org/web/20060216171550/http://islamicpluralism.org/news/2005n/urgentrejasser.htm "Battle for the Heart of Islam,"] ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'', 30 December 2005</ref> 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]];<ref>Richard Silverstein, [http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/10/02/radical-islam-wants-youand-america/ Radical Islam wants you...and America], ''Tikun Olam'', 2 October 2008</ref> and he is also an active player in the Islamophobic '[[Ground Zero Mosque]]' campaign.  
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<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]].<ref>[http://www.aifdemocracy.org/about/ About (AIFD)]</ref> <ref>[http://www.aifdemocracy.org/news.php?id=1879]</ref> The group also has Pipes' endorsement.<ref>Andrew Maykuth, [http://web.archive.org/web/20060216171550/http://islamicpluralism.org/news/2005n/urgentrejasser.htm "Battle for the Heart of Islam,"] ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'', 30 December 2005</ref> 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]];<ref>Richard Silverstein, [http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/10/02/radical-islam-wants-youand-america/ Radical Islam wants you...and America], ''Tikun Olam'', 2 October 2008</ref> and he was also an active player in the Islamophobic '[[Ground Zero Mosque]]' campaign.  
  
 
==Affiliations==
 
==Affiliations==
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*[[Center for Security Policy]] - Contributor to CSP front group [[Family Security Matters]]
 
*[[Center for Security Policy]] - Contributor to CSP front group [[Family Security Matters]]
 
*[[American Islamic Forum for Democracy]] - founder and sole member until 2007
 
*[[American Islamic Forum for Democracy]] - founder and sole member until 2007
*[[Center for Islamic Pluralism]]
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*[[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]].

Revision as of 03:11, 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.

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  1. About (AIFD)
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  3. Andrew Maykuth, "Battle for the Heart of Islam," The Philadelphia Inquirer, 30 December 2005
  4. Richard Silverstein, Radical Islam wants you...and America, Tikun Olam, 2 October 2008