M. Zuhdi Jasser

M. Zuhdi Jasser is the founder and president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, based in Phoenix, Arizona, and the co-founder of the Muslim Reform Movement. He is a former U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander and former Vice-Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. He is author of the book, A Battle for the Soul of Islam: An American Patriot’s Fight to Save His Faith (2013) and a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy. He is also a physician in private practice. Find him on Twitter @DrZuhdiJasser.

Palestinianism is the Natural Front for Islamism

September 2022:No single idea has given Islamist movements more return on their radicalization investment than “Palestinianism” and the marriage of that national identity movement with Islamism and HAMAS.

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Jewish Leaders Must Counter Islamist Supremacism

May 2022:If the Jewish community’s greatest allies within Muslim and Arab populations are in fact the “modern,” “liberal” reformers who stand up within our own faith and ethnic communities against the anti-Semitic, Islamist, and Arabist demagogues—then they must be supported and augmented, not marginalized.

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