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Saturday, April 20, 2013
They Failed
http://aifdemocracy.org/boston-bombers-are-yet-another-wake-up-call-for-a-national-strategy-against-the-root-cause-of-islamist-terror/
Thursday, November 17, 2011
From Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, AIFD - SAVE SYRIA NOW!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/syrians-take-up-arms-against-their-oppressors/2011/11/16/gIQACkh6TN_blog.html
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"Forcing the opposition to become violent is the deliberate aim of the Assad government.."
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"Forcing the opposition to become violent is the deliberate aim of the Assad government.."
Saturday, September 10, 2011
We Are Still Missing the Lessons
Ten Years -- We Are Still Missing the Lessons of 9/11
By Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser
September 10, 2011 | FoxNews.com
In recent years and even weeks, the lessons of September 11, 2001 have been lost to constant distraction, the most recent being Mayor Bloomberg's unfathomable decision to forbid people of faith a role at the tenth anniversary commemoration.
Faith was the impetus for the attack, faith was the instrument for healing, and faith is the only hope we have to defeat the ideology that attacked us ten years ago.
Bloomberg's stance encapsulates our greatest liabilities as a nation ten years after 9/11. We, now, more than ever, lack the political will, the national skill sets, and the prominent American Muslim leadership willing to identify, engage, and defeat Islamism.
While many Muslims take the bait of victimology preached by supposed Muslim civil rights groups in America, as American Muslims the rest of us cannot continue to deny the connection no matter how unfair between certain interpretations of our faith and Al Qaeda's brutal attack.
Usama bin Laden did not just represent a handful of militant extremists. He was a standard bearer for an end stage of a global ideology - political Islam (Islamism) - that has buried its roots deep within interpretations of our faith. Islamism is a theo-political construct that believes in the supremacy of the Islamic state and that is the antithesis of what makes America unique and exceptional. It can only be defeated by Muslims who step beyond the distractions and denials and champion an ideological path that binds our identity and faith to liberty and individual freedom.
If American Muslim leaders want to do anything to combat fear of Islamism and any unfair association of all Muslims that may exist, the most effective move would be to form an offensive strategy against Islamists and their ideas from within.
My family came to the U.S. in the 1960's escaping Syria's Baathist oppression in order to be free, more free than they ever dreamed of being in Muslim majority nations.
Yet, it is unconscionable that 10 years after 9/11, the United States is still dithering over the root cause of Islamist terror.
Islamists detest the very fabric of American society. September 11 was not the first attack and it was not the last. If we do not engage in a full throated ideological fight we will continue to witness an ever increasing threat to our homeland.
Sadly, the America I know that I chose to serve as a naval officer has spent an uncharacteristically sheepish decade asleep against the greatest existential threat to our survival. We must now develop and implement a coherent tactical plan to defeat the ideological root of militant Islamism- political Islam and the dreams for some Muslims of the Islamic state.
The threat to the United States has grown exponentially in ten years. A report from the Department of Justice in March of 2010 showed that of 228 terror-related arrests 186 of them were Muslim. That is over 80 percent from a Muslim community that represents less than 2 percent of the U.S. population.
What this report does not tell us is that of the 186 Muslim arrests almost certainly all of them were Muslims that believed in and adhered to an Islamist ideology. Since this report we have seen upwards of another 28 terror-related arrests of Muslims including the likes of Faisal Shahzad -- the Times Square bomber -- and Pvt. Naser Abdo who was preparing a second attack on Fort Hood who both claimed to be "Muslim soldiers" fighting for the ummah (Muslim nation).
The threat is increasing because the ideological message has largely gone unchecked. To change that we need to empower reform-minded liberal Muslim leaders. We need the political will from the Administration and Congress to identify political Islam as the problem and devout reformist Muslims and enlightened Islam as the solution. We need our government, media, and academe to have the skill set to not cower when terms like "Islamophobia" are leveled against those who are smart enough and brave enough to call out political Islam as the problem and we need for Muslims to separate religion and state to defeat Islamism. Unless we do that, our "whack-a-mole" approach to security will eventually miss one.
Western pluralistic societies that embrace individual liberty are not in conflict with the faith of Islam as practiced by most Muslims. This is not a war against a religion. We cannot allow our ideological enemy to use faith to tie our hands in this fight. Hear that Mayor Bloomberg? Mr. President? PC police? We must break the shackles of political correctness and step beyond the fear that paralyzes us against matters that happen to touch on faith.
The founding fathers never intended for faith to be sacrosanct and beyond public discourse. Perhaps the greatest outcome of the American experiment is that the U.S. Constitution reclaimed faith from the hands of the monarch and the clergy and vested it in the hands of the people as it was always intended. Now faced with an existential theo-political threat, we are failing that vision and need to rededicate ourselves to our founding principles.
The only way to win is to stop playing defense and create an offensive strategy which empowers liberty-minded Muslims whose identity is tied to Americanism and our Establishment Clause, rather than Islamism, shar'iah, and victimhood. We must tackle the fallacy of the Islamic state and demonstrate to Muslims the religious strength that comes from individual liberty.
We have yet to operationalize these lessons of 9/11. We will not win this struggle and therefore never have true national security without confronting the hard issues of Islamist ideology. Our enemy does not suffer the same malady and in fact utilizes ideology as their primary weapon in this battle.
We must do the same. Our dedication to the concepts of liberty and unyielding belief in the inalienable rights of man as endowed by our creator are the key to our victory.
Dr. Jasser is president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, a former U.S. Navy Lt. Commander and a physician in private practice based in Phoenix, Ariz. He can be reached at info@aifdemocracy.org.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/09/10/ten-years-are-still-missing-lessons-11/#ixzz1XXx7jsPO
By Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser
September 10, 2011 | FoxNews.com
In recent years and even weeks, the lessons of September 11, 2001 have been lost to constant distraction, the most recent being Mayor Bloomberg's unfathomable decision to forbid people of faith a role at the tenth anniversary commemoration.
Faith was the impetus for the attack, faith was the instrument for healing, and faith is the only hope we have to defeat the ideology that attacked us ten years ago.
Bloomberg's stance encapsulates our greatest liabilities as a nation ten years after 9/11. We, now, more than ever, lack the political will, the national skill sets, and the prominent American Muslim leadership willing to identify, engage, and defeat Islamism.
While many Muslims take the bait of victimology preached by supposed Muslim civil rights groups in America, as American Muslims the rest of us cannot continue to deny the connection no matter how unfair between certain interpretations of our faith and Al Qaeda's brutal attack.
Usama bin Laden did not just represent a handful of militant extremists. He was a standard bearer for an end stage of a global ideology - political Islam (Islamism) - that has buried its roots deep within interpretations of our faith. Islamism is a theo-political construct that believes in the supremacy of the Islamic state and that is the antithesis of what makes America unique and exceptional. It can only be defeated by Muslims who step beyond the distractions and denials and champion an ideological path that binds our identity and faith to liberty and individual freedom.
If American Muslim leaders want to do anything to combat fear of Islamism and any unfair association of all Muslims that may exist, the most effective move would be to form an offensive strategy against Islamists and their ideas from within.
My family came to the U.S. in the 1960's escaping Syria's Baathist oppression in order to be free, more free than they ever dreamed of being in Muslim majority nations.
Yet, it is unconscionable that 10 years after 9/11, the United States is still dithering over the root cause of Islamist terror.
Islamists detest the very fabric of American society. September 11 was not the first attack and it was not the last. If we do not engage in a full throated ideological fight we will continue to witness an ever increasing threat to our homeland.
Sadly, the America I know that I chose to serve as a naval officer has spent an uncharacteristically sheepish decade asleep against the greatest existential threat to our survival. We must now develop and implement a coherent tactical plan to defeat the ideological root of militant Islamism- political Islam and the dreams for some Muslims of the Islamic state.
The threat to the United States has grown exponentially in ten years. A report from the Department of Justice in March of 2010 showed that of 228 terror-related arrests 186 of them were Muslim. That is over 80 percent from a Muslim community that represents less than 2 percent of the U.S. population.
What this report does not tell us is that of the 186 Muslim arrests almost certainly all of them were Muslims that believed in and adhered to an Islamist ideology. Since this report we have seen upwards of another 28 terror-related arrests of Muslims including the likes of Faisal Shahzad -- the Times Square bomber -- and Pvt. Naser Abdo who was preparing a second attack on Fort Hood who both claimed to be "Muslim soldiers" fighting for the ummah (Muslim nation).
The threat is increasing because the ideological message has largely gone unchecked. To change that we need to empower reform-minded liberal Muslim leaders. We need the political will from the Administration and Congress to identify political Islam as the problem and devout reformist Muslims and enlightened Islam as the solution. We need our government, media, and academe to have the skill set to not cower when terms like "Islamophobia" are leveled against those who are smart enough and brave enough to call out political Islam as the problem and we need for Muslims to separate religion and state to defeat Islamism. Unless we do that, our "whack-a-mole" approach to security will eventually miss one.
Western pluralistic societies that embrace individual liberty are not in conflict with the faith of Islam as practiced by most Muslims. This is not a war against a religion. We cannot allow our ideological enemy to use faith to tie our hands in this fight. Hear that Mayor Bloomberg? Mr. President? PC police? We must break the shackles of political correctness and step beyond the fear that paralyzes us against matters that happen to touch on faith.
The founding fathers never intended for faith to be sacrosanct and beyond public discourse. Perhaps the greatest outcome of the American experiment is that the U.S. Constitution reclaimed faith from the hands of the monarch and the clergy and vested it in the hands of the people as it was always intended. Now faced with an existential theo-political threat, we are failing that vision and need to rededicate ourselves to our founding principles.
The only way to win is to stop playing defense and create an offensive strategy which empowers liberty-minded Muslims whose identity is tied to Americanism and our Establishment Clause, rather than Islamism, shar'iah, and victimhood. We must tackle the fallacy of the Islamic state and demonstrate to Muslims the religious strength that comes from individual liberty.
We have yet to operationalize these lessons of 9/11. We will not win this struggle and therefore never have true national security without confronting the hard issues of Islamist ideology. Our enemy does not suffer the same malady and in fact utilizes ideology as their primary weapon in this battle.
We must do the same. Our dedication to the concepts of liberty and unyielding belief in the inalienable rights of man as endowed by our creator are the key to our victory.
Dr. Jasser is president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, a former U.S. Navy Lt. Commander and a physician in private practice based in Phoenix, Ariz. He can be reached at info@aifdemocracy.org.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/09/10/ten-years-are-still-missing-lessons-11/#ixzz1XXx7jsPO
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Muslim Soldier Arrested
M. Zuhdi Jasser, MD
American Islamic Forum for Democracy
'I wouldn't be admitted into heaven': Muslim U.S. soldier arrested over 'plot to bomb Fort Hood' refused Afghan service
--Soldier was 'AWOL' awaiting trial over child porn charges
--FBI: 'bomb making material found in motel room'
--Muslim soldier refused to deploy to Afghanistan
--Soldier was 'AWOL' awaiting trial over child porn charges
--FBI: 'bomb making material found in motel room'
--Muslim soldier refused to deploy to Afghanistan
By Daily Mail Reporter July 28, 2011
Arrested; According to reports, Nasser Abdo has been arrested and found with explosives near Fort Hood
Killeen Police Department have arrested Pvt. Nasser Jason Abdo, 21, near Ft. Hood.
Ft. Hood spokesman Bob Jenkins said Abdo was already being investigated for child pornography before he went AWOL on July 4.
After being detained for acting suspiciously near the base, police say they recovered possible bomb making materials from his hotel room.
FBI spokesman Erik Vasys said today that firearms and 'items that could be identified as bomb-making components, including gunpowder' were removed from Abdo's Killeen motel room.
Mr Vasys says the FBI will charge Abdo with possessing bomb-making components.
Abdo - who was due to be deployed in Afghanistan - had applied for conscientious objector status in August which was initially denied.
But a military review board this spring recommended approval of his request, but Abdo could not be discharged until resolution of the 2010 child pornography case.
A June Article 32 hearing, similar to a grand jury, led to the court-martial recommendation.
Arrest: The three soldiers have been arrested in an alleged plot to attack Fort Hood
There were also mixed reports today two other soldiers were arrested after authorities recovered weapons and explosives.
It is not known if they raised the alarm on the plot.
In September Abdo announced his conscientious objector status, saying his faith and the military didn't mix.
He said: 'As a Muslim, we stand against injustice, we stand against discrimination, and I feel it's my duty as an individual to do this.
'I knew that if I went to Afghanistan and, God forbid, something were to happen, that my faith was so weak that I wouldn't be admitted into heaven.'
Previous: Major Nidal Malik Hasan killed 13 and injured 29 in a gun rampage at a US Army base, Fort Hood, Texas 2009
Abdo's alleged plot follows the November 5, 2009 attack by Major Nidal Hasan.
Hasan, an American Army officer, carried out a shooting on the base in Texas that killed 13 people and wounded 30 others.
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Responding to Abdo's objections to serving in Afghanistan, the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) said: 'Muslims serve with distinction throughout the United States Military and AIFD sees Abdo's traitorous public assertions as a slap in the face to all American Muslims especially those Muslims who fight in our armed forces for the liberty and freedom guaranteed by the American Constitution.'
Friday, July 8, 2011
AIFD Press Release - American Muslim organization appalled at administration decision to bring foreign terrorist to US soil - Friday, July 8, 2011
American Muslim organization appalled at administration decision to bring foreign terrorist to US soil
Warsame is an enemy combatant and should be held at Guantanamo Bay and tried in military tribunal
PHOENIX (July 8, 2011) - Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, a devout Muslim and the president and founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) issued the following statement regarding the Obama administration's decision to use civilian courts for Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame case. Warsame is believed to be a senior operational commander in the Somali terrorist organization al-Shabbab and has significant contacts within Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. He was captured in April and held aboard a US warship until he was transferred to New York City for trial this past week:
"The Obama administration's decision to bring Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame to New York City to be tried in a civilian court defies logic. Warsame is an enemy combatant. He is not a US citizen or even a resident and his illegal activities were perpetrated overseas and were clearly an act of war against the United States. He should not be afforded the legal rights and privileges of citizenship.
While we applaud the decision to fully interrogate Warsame, the Administration's new cherry picked procedures with captured terrorists abroad is playing a dangerous political game that is unnecessary and belies a total lack of understanding of the war we are in with Islamist radicals. Warsame and all captured terror suspects should be fully interrogated and held for military tribunal at the Guantanamo Bay prison facility.
This administration needs to fully understand that the US is in a state of war with the ideology of militant Islamism. If we have any hope of defeating this insidious and violent ideology we cannot continue to equivocate on how we handle these terrorists. The enemy has no such dilemma on their side. War cannot be conducted with half measures. Warsame needs to be treated in accordance with his actions."
About the American Islamic Forum for Democracy
info@aifdemocracy.org
Warsame is an enemy combatant and should be held at Guantanamo Bay and tried in military tribunal
PHOENIX (July 8, 2011) - Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, a devout Muslim and the president and founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) issued the following statement regarding the Obama administration's decision to use civilian courts for Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame case. Warsame is believed to be a senior operational commander in the Somali terrorist organization al-Shabbab and has significant contacts within Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. He was captured in April and held aboard a US warship until he was transferred to New York City for trial this past week:
"The Obama administration's decision to bring Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame to New York City to be tried in a civilian court defies logic. Warsame is an enemy combatant. He is not a US citizen or even a resident and his illegal activities were perpetrated overseas and were clearly an act of war against the United States. He should not be afforded the legal rights and privileges of citizenship.
While we applaud the decision to fully interrogate Warsame, the Administration's new cherry picked procedures with captured terrorists abroad is playing a dangerous political game that is unnecessary and belies a total lack of understanding of the war we are in with Islamist radicals. Warsame and all captured terror suspects should be fully interrogated and held for military tribunal at the Guantanamo Bay prison facility.
This administration needs to fully understand that the US is in a state of war with the ideology of militant Islamism. If we have any hope of defeating this insidious and violent ideology we cannot continue to equivocate on how we handle these terrorists. The enemy has no such dilemma on their side. War cannot be conducted with half measures. Warsame needs to be treated in accordance with his actions."
About the American Islamic Forum for Democracy
info@aifdemocracy.org
Monday, May 2, 2011
American Muslim Organization Applauds US Effort to Bring UBL to Justice
American Muslim organization applauds US effort to bring Osama Bin Laden to justice
May 1, 2011
American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD)
PHOENIX (May 1, 2011) - Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, a devout Muslim and the president and founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) issued the following statement regarding President Obama's announcement that the United States had killed Osama Bin Laden:
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"This evening's announcement by President Obama that the United States had carried out an operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan that resulted in the death of Osama Bin Laden is a victory for the United States of America against the face of Islamist terror and the man who perpetrated war crimes against our nation on September 11, 2001. Most importantly this will allow the American people and especially the 9/11 families to begin to get a degree of closure.
This operation is a testament to the dedication and steadfastness of the United States military, our homeland security, and intelligence community. There is no finer force than the men and women of the United States military who defend and secure our freedom every day.
The death of Osama Bin Laden is significant because it closes a chapter in our war against Islamist extremists. But make no mistake this war is far from over. Bin Laden was but one head on the Hydra that is the Islamist movement. It is our hope that Bin Laden's death will serve as a means to transition this war from a reactionary approach to quell violence to a proactive war of ideas against the ideology that breeds the extremism.
We will not be free of terror until we openly confront the ideology of political Islam which is the underlying fuel for the militant Islamism of groups like Al Qaeda. To deliver true national security we must demonstrate the same dedication and steadfastness in creating a liberty narrative within the Muslim conscience as we did in hunting Bin Laden."
About the American Islamic Forum for Democracy
The American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) charitable organization. AIFD's mission advocates for the preservation of the founding principles of the United States Constitution, liberty and freedom, through the separation of mosque and state. For more information on AIFD, please visit our website at http://www.aifdemocracy.org/.
May 1, 2011
American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD)
PHOENIX (May 1, 2011) - Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, a devout Muslim and the president and founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) issued the following statement regarding President Obama's announcement that the United States had killed Osama Bin Laden:
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"This evening's announcement by President Obama that the United States had carried out an operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan that resulted in the death of Osama Bin Laden is a victory for the United States of America against the face of Islamist terror and the man who perpetrated war crimes against our nation on September 11, 2001. Most importantly this will allow the American people and especially the 9/11 families to begin to get a degree of closure.
This operation is a testament to the dedication and steadfastness of the United States military, our homeland security, and intelligence community. There is no finer force than the men and women of the United States military who defend and secure our freedom every day.
The death of Osama Bin Laden is significant because it closes a chapter in our war against Islamist extremists. But make no mistake this war is far from over. Bin Laden was but one head on the Hydra that is the Islamist movement. It is our hope that Bin Laden's death will serve as a means to transition this war from a reactionary approach to quell violence to a proactive war of ideas against the ideology that breeds the extremism.
We will not be free of terror until we openly confront the ideology of political Islam which is the underlying fuel for the militant Islamism of groups like Al Qaeda. To deliver true national security we must demonstrate the same dedication and steadfastness in creating a liberty narrative within the Muslim conscience as we did in hunting Bin Laden."
About the American Islamic Forum for Democracy
The American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) charitable organization. AIFD's mission advocates for the preservation of the founding principles of the United States Constitution, liberty and freedom, through the separation of mosque and state. For more information on AIFD, please visit our website at http://www.aifdemocracy.org/.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
MMFA Attacks Muslim Veteran Dr. Zudhi Jasser … For Being American
http://bigpeace.com/driehl/2011/03/04/mmfa-attacks-muslim-veteran-dr-zudhi-jasser-for-being-american/
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