Difference between revisions of "M. Zuhdi Jasser"

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*[[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]] - 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.
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*[[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 2008 film [[The Third Jihad]], described by writer Richard Silverstein 'an anti-Muslim train wreck of a film 'that reeks of partisan political bias'. As of 2015 Jasser is one of three members of the advisory board of the Fund's successor organisation, the [[Clarion Project]].
 
*[[Clarion Fund]] - Jasser narrates and makes an appearance in [[Aish HaTorah]] Rabbi [[Raphael Shore]]'s 2008 film [[The Third Jihad]], described by writer Richard Silverstein 'an anti-Muslim train wreck of a film 'that reeks of partisan political bias'. As of 2015 Jasser is one of three members of the advisory board of the Fund's successor organisation, the [[Clarion Project]].
 
*[[Committee on the Present Danger]] - member
 
*[[Committee on the Present Danger]] - member

Revision as of 04:57, 10 November 2015

<youtube size="medium" 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 organisation 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)
  2. AIFD News: A moderate voice of Muslim pluralism with a Washington address
  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