SOUNDING THE ALARM ON SILENT JIHAD IN AMERICA

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EXCERPT: LIBERTYNEWS online

“Critical national security issues…have been effectively banned from CPAC” due to the influence of Norquist and Khan, Weiss noted at NSAC, hence the CPAC “Uninvited” description of NSAC. Khan “speaks volumes” with his silence on Jasser and other Muslims in their struggle against Islamism, Jasser declared to NSAC per video. With Khan and Norquist, “their silence becomes an enablement” of MB, “no different than the Germans who were silent during the Nazi era,” Jasser stated at CPAC while decrying Khan’s past denial of MB in America as “absurd.” Khan’s “enablers like Grover Norquist” merited challenge in the conservative movement, Jasser’s NSAC video address stated.

A “filtering mechanism for Islamism” appeared necessary to Jasser at CPAC in light of Khan, absent which individuals like Fort Hood jihadist shooter Nidal Hasan would go undetected. The self-proclaimed Arizona “hawk on immigration” noted that most Muslim immigrants, many of them economic migrants, “do not become by virtue of living in America Jeffersonian.” Thus four mosques Jasser helped establish later became Islamist and Jasser’s encounters with Muslim Congressman Keith Ellision revealed him as “clearly an Islamist.” “There are not a lot of Zuhdi Jassers,” Weiss bemoaned while speaking next to her “hero.”

“Do their rights come from God or do they come from Islam?” was one question Jasser suggested posing to Muslims as well as asking what kind of law they would support when in the majority. Such questions were necessary to find “pious Muslims on the side of liberty” and not “declare war on a quarter of the world population.” To “pick sides within the House of Islam with those who are with us,” Jasser’s NSAC video argued, would form the “head of the spear” against Islamism. The stakes could not be higher; American freedom is an “experiment…not the norm” across human history, Weiss at NSAC warned.
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CAIR rejects American Muslim organization’s request for debate: Cowardly response again reveals corrupt reliance on ad-hominem attacks and denial of need for reform

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PHOENIX (March 13, 2014) – On March 7, Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, President of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) sent a letter to Corey Saylor, Director, “Department to Monitor and Combat Islamophobia” for the Council on American-Islamic Relations. On March 12, Mr. Saylor declined our invitation.

 

In his response, Saylor expressed “disappointment” that we posted the letter publicly, alleging that our challenge was nothing more than a “publicity stunt.” Given CAIR’s repeated refusal to engage us directly and honestly on the issues, resorting instead to very public ad-hominem attacks issued in deceitful reports and countless press releases, we find Mr. Saylor’s “disappointment” revealing. While CAIR regularly pushes its narrative about Dr. Jasser and AIFD to every media outlet that will listen, Mr. Saylor would rather we not publish our mildly worded and entirely honest request for a debate on our website and social media. Why? It should now be obvious that CAIR would rather deal with its Muslim dissenters through deception and intimidation rather than through transparency, honesty and debate.

 

Saylor’s response continues CAIR’s malignant and defamatory approach to our ideological differences. Most stunning of all was his likening of AIFD to the Ku Klux Klan, anti-Semites and seditious “anti-government organizations”, as well as his dishonest yet unsurprising assertions that we oppose First Amendment protections for Muslims, oppose the building of mosques, and support unwarranted surveillance of Muslims. Again much like the Islamists and the conspiracy theories they propagate, the more they repeat lies and delusions the more they become convinced of their own fabrications. Each of their points is easily refuted by statements and actions made by Dr. Jasser and AIFD, which are all on public record. Simply put, Mr. Saylor’s letter serves to highlight CAIR’s open refusal to be held accountable. As self-appointed ambassadors of the Muslim community, their behavior is unIslamic and in fact stands in opposition to the Islamic tradition of open debate, which was championed by Prophet Muhammad. CAIR’s disrespect for the Qur’anic commands to honesty and moral courage is indeed disappointing and should cause their small membership to rethink the fear and moral depravity their organization actually represents.

 

Saylor’s response highlighted several events or initiatives that AIFD participated in, but conveniently ignored actual statements made by Dr. Jasser and AIFD about these events and initiatives. Instead, his letter was self-congratulatory (he inappropriately likened CAIR’s cowardly approach to the courage of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) and refused to address the real need for reform within the Muslim community.

 

In addition to the above, Mr. Saylor repeated CAIR’s refrain that AIFD is funded by what they define as “the U.S. Islamophobia network,” and that AIFD is anti-Muslim because of who might mention us positively in a blog. This weak attempt at discrediting us would be entirely laughable if their much larger budget didn’t lend them such significant access to the public arena. Of course, Mr. Saylor has perhaps forgotten that many who support CAIR also support the Muslim Brotherhood, and that their own Executive Director is on tape saying he would “support the Hamas movement,” – a U.S. government recognized terrorist organization.

 

It is important for Muslims and non-Muslims alike to realize that groups like CAIR only represent the minority of Muslims in the U.S. A study by the Abu Dhabi Gallup Center reported that only 12% of the American Muslim community – hardly a majority – said that CAIR represents their interests. Nonetheless, they are a vocal bullying organization who uses any tool they can to stoke fear among American Muslims and crush any voices who oppose them.

 

When we posted our request for a public debate on our website, CAIR balked at what would have been a prime opportunity to advance their mission and debate our differences in a neutral and transparent setting. Since CAIR is ultimately afraid of the impact of actually standing on a stage and defending their ideas, AIFD has decided to take the debate to them.  AIFD will now engage in a series of discussions and commentary that is aimed at highlighting the reform that is necessary within the Muslim community. We will examine the public positions of CAIR and other Islamist organizations and contrast them with AIFD’s approach which is rooted in a sincere commitment to protecting the individual rights of all people.

 

AIFD calls on those Muslim voices CAIR would seek to silence: stand with us in discussion and introspection, addressing those issues within our community that remain in dire need of reform. We must dismiss CAIR and  all of their Islamist allies as the ideological relics that they are.

 

Our debate will begin in the coming weeks, on social media and on the broader public stage.  Our community cannot continue to refuse internal reforms.  If we want our children to have a better future both in America and abroad we must look within, find our individual and collective strength, and make it happen.

 

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/.

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AIFD President challenges CAIR’s Director of the Department to Monitor and Combat Islamophobia to a debate on “Islamophobia in America”

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PHOENIX (March 7, 2014) – Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, President of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) issued the following challenge to Corey Saylor, Director, “Department to Monitor and Combat Islamophobia” for the Council on American-Islamic Relations..  The letter calls for Mr. Saylor to debate Dr. Jasser on “Islamophobia in America” on May 10, 2014 at Georgetown University’s School of Continuing Studies – a neutral site with a neutral moderator.

Mr. Saylor and CAIR have repeatedly attacked Dr. Jasser, a devout Muslim, with their false claim that AIFD is a purveyor of “Islamophobia in America.” But yet they have never had the courage of their convictions to engage in a public debate on a common platform on these issues with Dr. Jasser or AIFD.

AIFD believes that the only honest way for American Muslims and non-Muslims to understand the great divide between these two Muslim organizations is to have a public debate with a neutral moderator.   While AIFD stands behind its criticism of CAIR’s ideology, agenda and tactics, we believe that American Muslims would benefit from a more thoughtful, real-time juxtaposition of their vision for American Muslim ideas and the realities associated with so called “Islamophobia.”

CAIR is rooted in an Islamist ideology that views American Muslims as victims of American society.  AIFD believes that America provides people of all faiths the best environment to practice their religion free from tyranny and that the priority of the American Muslim community should be directed to the reforms necessary against the ideologies of Islamism.

Below is a copy of the letter that was transmitted today to Mr. Saylor.

 

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/.

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American Islamist Coalition Launches with Empty Rhetoric

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Source: The Jewish Voice

Eight national Muslim organizations, many with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and with records of support for Hamas, have formed a “national council” that seeks to further entrench an Islamist monopoly on Muslim political debate.

The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) went public with a news conference in Washington last week. Organizers would not allow a representative from the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) to attend.

The coalition claims “broad inclusion,” yet its member organizations all start with similar viewpoints. But it doesn’t appear to have invited Muslim groups with a different view of the role religion should play in society. Instead, it is a union of like-minded, inherently political organizations, many with checkered records.

That becomes relevant as the USCMO claims to seek a “unity of purpose not opinion … to act together on knowledge for the good of all people, not in the interest of a party or group.” It will decide for “our whole community … all that is good, champion what is right and stand against what is wrong.”

One Muslim with a different view is Zuhdi Jasser, president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD). Rather than following the USCMO’s pledge of inclusion, Jasser routinely is attacked for wanting to keep religion a personal matter, not a political one.

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American Islamist Coalition Launches With Empty Rhetoric

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EXCERPT: the algemeiner

One Muslim with a different view is Zuhdi Jasser, president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD). Rather than following the USCMO’s pledge of inclusion, Jasser routinely is attacked for wanting to keep religion a personal matter, not a political one.

The USCMO “should be looked at as a circling of the wagons of the inner core of American Islamist organizations,” Jasser said Wednesday in an email to the IPT. “If they were going to start an American Islamist political party those would be the founders. Instead they deceive Americans as an innocent ‘Muslim coalition.’”

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