AIFD Media Focus

AIFD's President Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser is cited in a circumspect expose on what CAIR really represents.

DHS releases memo admonishing staff and Americans to avoid certain terms in domestic and global conflict against radical Islamists

A deeper look at Sharia-compliant financing reveals a deep network of theocratic control and curtailment of freedoms.

Retired Army Colonoel House discusses the ideas presented by Dr. Jasser in Columbus as a guest of the Richard Halleck Foundation.

J.J. Green interviewed Zuhdi Jasser in Studio and they discussed Iran's intentions.

Navy sailor's quiet life took a sinister turn

Doing homework on Obama's positions

Recent Islam Awareness Series featuring Khaled Abou El Fadl more of an apologetic for Islamism.

CQ reviews voting trends of Muslim voters in 2008. Dr. Jasser comments on Islamist drive to collectivize Muslim voters.

Dr. Jasser joined a Florida Security Council Panel on Radical Islam after a showing of Obsession the Movie.

Dr. Jasser and the Florida Security Council speak to University of Florida students on the threat of radical Islamism after a showing of Obsession.

Sheriff Hunter of Collier County moderates a panel on Radical Islamism in Naples. Dr. Jasser participates.

Dr. Jasser and AIFD visited the Netherlands from December 12-16, 2008.

Dr. Jasser met with Dutch audiences to speak about Islam, citizenship, and democracy and to discuss the threat of political Islam.

A Muslim former Navy officer says democracy is the antidote for theocracy.

McKenzie Martin covers Dr. Jasser speech to the Winter Night Club in Colorado Springs.

Nine American Muslims respond to Rabbi Hoffe's outreach to ISNA.

Kathryn Jean Lopez, NRO Editor, responds to Ayaan Hirsi Ali's recent call in a New York Times op-ed for more Muslim moderates.

Sean discusses with Zuhdi Jasser exposing the harm done by the flying imams and their lawsuit and Islamism.

In depth report into the agenda behind large Saudi donations to American universities.

An interview with Congresswoman Sue Myrick (R-NC) founder and head of House anti-terrorism/jihad caucus of Congress

Austin Hill interviews M. Zuhdi Jasser on the Austin Hill Show.

Dr. Jasser spoke to the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia on October 30 and discussed the problems with political Islam.

After 19 days of deliberation, a federal judge declares a mistrial in a landmark terrorism financing case.

Do Americans have the courage to face the ideology embraced by the Jihadists?

If the government retries the HLF case, it's sure to try a different approach.

A controversial film that PBS axed from its Crossroads documentary series about the post-Sept. 11 world will be broadcast nationwide this week by the FOX News Channel.

Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser was recognized by the Center for his work against Islamism.

Review of the Media's Homeland Security Coverage

How much political power does the Muslim American Society wield?

Federal prosecution is exposing the hidden agenda of some mainstream Muslim groups (subscription required).

Parents, pundits, and pedagogues battle over New York's Arabic school. (subscription required)

Memo lays bare group's plan to destroy U.S. from within.

Mark Steyn speaks to large audience in Phoenix in event sponsored by the Goldwater Institute.

Tampa's PBS WEDU becomes a shrill for CAIR

Footbaths at Univ. of Michigan bring controversy over public monies used for a single faith.

Some students argue that the foot baths are funded by general student fees, which has come under dispute. Zuhdi Jasser of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy explains.

MUSLIMS WHO believe their community can and must integrate itself into liberal Western societies - who oppose the use of terrorism in the name of their faith, and who support democratic values as well as the rights of women - do exist.

If you can stay up late August 14th, Lawn urges you to watch Islam vs. Islamists.

Islamic groups press Muslim Somalis to quit meatpacking jobs over prayer. (subscription needed)

To what extent should courtrooms honor religiuos dress requests (subscription needed).

AIFD weighs in on Taliban hostage-taking of South Korean Christian group in Afghanistan.

CAIR membership and apologetics

Are Muslims getting special treatment in their requests for prayer times, prayer rooms and ritual foot baths?

The Newsweek/Washington Post weBlog on Islam is missing a significant voice of change.

Mark, Zuhdi, and Cong. King (R-NY) discuss defeat of John Doe protections by Democrats.

It's time to call off this politically correct, walking-on-eggshells charade, in which fewer and fewer non-Muslims really believe.

The White House excludes truly moderate Muslims to the peril of our security.

45 UK Muslim doctors plot to attack Mayport Naval base in Florida.

Transcript of interview

Excerpts from an interview with M. Zuhdi Jasser in the Washington Times Culture section.

Campaign message and Gaffney avenged

The radical Muslims within the Muslim community need to be held accountable for the violence and bloodshed they create.

According to tax documents obtained by The Washington Times

Erick reports on the legal threat to John Does and interviews Zuhdi Jasser. (see video at link).

Here's hoping these folks will find their public voice and challenge the claim of Islamists to speak for the entire American Muslim community.

The Pew Poll speaks volumes

Moderate Muslims who want to see adherents to the faith assimilate into the mainstream American culture are in many ways reassured by a new poll reflecting the community's views.

The first nationwide survey of Muslim Americans revealed that more than a quarter of those younger than 30 say suicide bombings to defend Islam are justified.

How do you differentiate between a radical Muslim and a moderate Muslim?

Syrian origin, moderate secular Muslims, Zuhdi Jasser and Naser Kader of Denmark share a number of common interests.

Dreher discusses feedback to his column on Moderate Muslims and the shelved PBS documentary

Hat tip to AIFD

PBS won't show 'Islam vs. Islamists,' but you should see it.

Mark Levin discusses the implications to Muslims in America of the Fort Dix terror plot

The store clerk whose tip led to the arrest of six terror suspects needs legislative protection from being sued as a "John Doe".

Profiles of Muslims in Denmark, France, Canada, Michigan, and Arizona demonstrate how moderate voices, devoted to the idea of integrating Islam with democracy, are threatened and marginalized by Islamists intent on establishing Islamic law (shari'a) in the West.

Looking at moderate Muslim responses to attempts at a parallel society for Islamists in America

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Bhutto's example, as well as that of many other courageous Muslims, provides a glimmer of hope that the scourge of Islamic extremism will one day subside.

Where on Earth are the moderate Muslims? Thanks to PBS, they're not on public television.

A lawsuit brought by six imams who were removed from a flight raises issues about other passengers voicing complaints.

Perhaps if the words of the true moderates are allowed a larger audience the world can yet avoid a conflict of horrific proportions.

Review of second panel at Tufts Forum--How Moderate Muslims can counter fundamentalism and how government can help them.

Jebsen Center conference was an exceptional experience.

The film features grainy footage and dramatic music, presenting itself as a stark look at the way fundamentalist Muslims in America and Europe crush dissent by their more moderate co-religionists.

PBS cites bias and alarmism in suspending the airing of a documentary on Islamic moderates and extremists.

After viewing the private screening of Islam v Islamists, it seems the editors at PBS are Islamist sympathizers

Public Broadcasting Service officials who have refused to air a documentary on moderate Muslims are using the same tools of suppression and censorship Islamists employ to stymie debate, a documentary-maker charged Tuesday.

"Islam vs. Islamists: Voices from the Muslim Center" highlights the work of moderate Muslims who oppose the Islamist agenda and are willing to speak out.

A documentary billed as "the film PBS doesn't want you to see" found an audience yesterday.

"Islam vs. Islamists," which documents moderate American Muslims who are threatened by their more radical brethren, will be shown today to journalists at a theater blocks from the White House.

CAIR's lawsuit against the John Does is not about religious liberty

Litigation threats against vigilant citizens who report suspicious activity could impede intelligence-gathering efforts and empower terrorists.

A rare look into the local reactions and history of AIFD.

Moderate Muslim perspective on the flying imam case.

Questioning authority in the Muslim faith can be frought with threats and justifiable fears.

The spiked PBS documentary should be aired.

A German court ruling is a warning about the dangers of an Islamist parallel society

Zuhdi Jasser and Martyn Burke discuss the documentary shelved by PBS

A documentary film on the struggles of moderate American Muslims at the hands of their radical brethren has become a showcase for the struggles between right and left in the news media.

Some are speaking out against the imams suit against US Airways and John Doe passengers

Mark interviews Zuhdi Jasser (see audio link at this link on Mark's website)

Critics slammed a Democratic lawmaker for addressing a Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR) function.

Producer: PBS dropped 'Islam vs. Islamists' on political grounds

Controversial PBS Program meets cutting room floor- censorship at CPB.

If CAIR and the imams picked a boneheaded way to make Americans rethink their prejudices.

Three cheers - no, three million cheers - for Zuhdi Jasser.

A German rules on a Muslim divorce case and allows fundamentalist Islamic law to trump German law.

If a law to protect the John Does is signed soon, it will be a signal that common sense is not yet a casualty.

Glenn discusses the new terminology in the war on terror in Europe and its implications with Dr. Jasser

As an act of coldblooded strategy, the pending lawsuit of the "flying imams" is a clever one.

Dr. Zuhdi Jasser sees his faith threatened by extremists seeking to hijack it for political ends. "Islam is a spiritual path," he says. "The mixture of politics and religion is toxic to our faith."

If you see something, say something.

John Hook interviews M. Zuhdi Jasser

John Hook interviews M. Zuhdi Jasser

John Hook interviews M. Zuhdi Jasser

Organizations like AIFD are essential in defeating radical Islam.

Legislation offered to protect airline passengers from lawsuits for reporting suspicious behavior that might be linked to a terrorist attack

AIFD offers an alternative Muslim response to the Imam suit which includes the passengers

Bill Bennett interviews M. Zuhdi Jasser on the flying imams and moderate Islam.

A Muslim group is offering to help defend passengers sued by CAIR and Imams

Lawyers and a Muslim group say they will defend at no cost airline passengers caught up in a lawsuit between a group of imams and U.S. Airways.

Listen to all four segments

Mark Levin interviews AIFD Chairman, Zuhdi Jasser (mp3 file 24 MB, listen to hour 2 of 2)

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) doesn't have much tolerance for a robust media.

A Valley Muslim leader is upset about a lawsuit filed against US Airways by imams.

Frank Pastore interviews AIFD Chairman, M. Zuhdi Jasser (Listen with Windows Media Player)

John Andrews discusses AIFD and the war against radical Islam with Dr. Jasser (Listen with Windows Media Player)

Interview of M. Zuhdi Jasser, AIFD Chairman (Listen with Windows Media Player- 1.2 MB)

Interview with M. Zuhdi Jasser, AIFD Chairman (Listen with Windows Media Player 8.5 MB)

M. Zuhdi Jasser, suggested that it's not so much "flying while Muslim" that's a problem as flying while being American.

Why are the numbers of Muslims in the US military low? (MP3 file)

Make the distinction from now on: We are not at war with Islam, but at war with radicals doing evil in the name of Islam.

Husham Al-Husainy, imam of the Karbalaa Islamic Education Center in Dearborn, MI gave a political prayer at the DNC winter meeting.

Rob Breakenridge interviews M. Zuhdi Jasser, AIFD Chairman, on the portrayal of Muslims in the Media. (Listen to Audio on Windows Media)

Americans have yearned to see current geopolitical realities portrayed in popular culture ever since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Federal government agencies are defending their continuing cooperation with a high-profile Islamic organization at a time when its alleged ties to terrorists have come under renewed scrutiny.

"Hate crimes" reported by Muslims have decreased significantly since the year of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Dr. Jasser comments on Islamophobia in the U.S.

Andrea Shea King interviews M. Zuhdi Jasser, Chairman AIFD (Listen with Windows Media Player)

AIFD Chairman, M. Zuhdi Jasser discusses CAIR's program encouraging Muslims to report travel discrimination during upcoming Hajj travel.

There are a few Muslims with the courage to speak out.

Bob and Tom discuss CAIR's recent program asking Muslim pilgrims to report any travel discrimination (Listen with Windows Media Player)

American Muslims making a religious pilgrimage to Mecca are being encouraged by CAIR to file civil rights complaints if they feel discriminated against by airlines.

Not all Muslims are saying the six imams were pulled off a US Airways flight headed to Phoenix because of discrimination.

Video of Interview with Dr. Jasser concerning flying imams decision to pray at the U.S. Airways gate (Windows Media File)

The Mankato Free Press editorial board cites AIFD as an example of our most potent weapon against jihadists.

Incumbents back Israel-related legislation - with exceptions

Some Muslims in the USA say the pope's use of a medieval quote about the prophet Mohammed in a speech in Germany last week was insulting but violent reactions to it were also unacceptable.

Lawn Griffiths guages local Muslim reaction to the Pope's comments last week concerning Islam.

More than a decade after a radical Islamist's 1993 attempt to level the World Trade Center and five years after al-Qaida's Sept. 11 attacks, the message has hit home.

The spiritual director of Las Vegas' largest mosque and editor in chief of a national Muslim newspaper, Aslam Abdullah, has drawn criticism from Muslims and non-Muslims alike for his controversial opinions.

I applaud Zuhdi Jasser, chairman of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, for his understanding that America's strength was built on separation of church and state and that Islamic religious requests do not serve "to build friends and bridges with the Western community."

Muslim women in the USA have been asking the public to accommodate their religious beliefs about modesty, a trend that some Muslims worry will provoke a backlash.

Muslim-Jewish dialogue in the Valley is stronger than ever.

The local New Times does a soft in depth profile on the Executive Director of the local Muslim American Society (MAS) Freedom Foundation. While the piece may be an interesting profile, it entirely avoids investigation into MAS links to the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist ideologies and organizations which are antithetical to AIFD.

Special report from the USIP reviewing current Muslim NGO's in America and the status of Muslim scholars and dialogue

Philadelphia Inquirer Reporter, Andrew Maykuth investigates the formation of AIFD, its mission, and the response of the local Arizona Muslim community.

Center for Islamic Pluralism Executive Director, Stephen Schwartz, discusses the recent hate cartoon by the Arizona Muslim Voice against Dr. Jasser and what lessons we can learn regarding the silence of American Muslims who work against militant Islamism.

Outrage and puzzlement are mounting over the Bush administration's participation this weekend in the fifth annual convention of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, to be headlined by a vociferous administration critic and a former ambassador to Iraq, Joseph Wilson.

Jerusalem Post reporter Haviv Rettig looks into the radicalization of U.S. Mosques and its prevalence

Host Eric Felten and panel discuss how the rioting in France by Arab and Muslim youth casts a spotlight on the issue of assimilation.

Last of a two part series by Jeff Jacoby on the real Muslim moderates in the American Muslim political landscape.

Muslim leaders say they will focus on taking concrete actions to eradicate terrorism from their faith communities.

Full Video coverage of the March Against Terrorism in Washington, D.C. of May 14, 2005

Washington Times reporter Jon Ward covers the March Against Terror in Washington D.C. sponsored by the Free Muslims and by AIFD

Reporter Steven Vincent investigates the ideologies, organizations, and current state of moderate Muslims in the United States.

Pope's priorities include building bridges to other faiths

Michael Kress investigates the current status of Jewish-Muslim dialogue in the United States.

Cinnamon Stillwell reports on the emergence of strongly moderate Muslim organizations in the United States.

Host: Leaders of a dozen groups representing Muslim Americans and Arab Americans of other faiths met in Washington to speak out against terrorism and in favor of democratic freedoms. Zainab Al-Suwaij is the executive director of the American Islamic Congress. She said the conference was an effort to confront the fact that "Many people use Islam as a reason to kill innocent people." One of the speakers at the conference was Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, a physician in Phoenix, Arizona.

Moderate Muslims say their faith is compatible with freedom.

Debra Gelbart covers the AIFD Rally Against Terror in held in downtown Phoenix on April 24, 2004

Washington Times editorial staff comments on AIFD on the eve of its Rally against Terror.

Aziz provides an apologetic for the imams and cites dissenting Muslim organizations as 'fringe groups'.

Exhibit A in defense of the notion that America doesn't take Islamist terrorism seriously enough has to be the curious Case of the Flying Imams.

Local newspaper report after CAIR-AZ rally in support of Marwan Ahmed.

Local Phoenix news report (with many factual errors) on CAIR-AZ rally in support of Marwan Ahmed

Mr. Ahmed through his words and deeds has demonstrated his inability to live up to the lofty goals of the Phoenix HRC.

Phoenix police confirm they are investigating a suspicious letter sent to the Muslim Voice newspaper in Phoenix.

A process that apparently began more than three months ago with a letter from Phoenix Human Relations Commission chairwoman R.J. Shannon to Mayor Phil Gordon has led to the removal of Commissioner Marwan Ahmad from that civic body.

Phoenix City Council members last week removed Marwan Ahmad, a Palestinian and Muslim, from the Human Relations Commission after more than five years of service, saying he was promoting messages of intolerance against Israel, the Jewish community and at least one member of the Islamic community.

Report of local fundraiser highlights toxic mixture of religion and politics (islamism) in the local activist Muslim community.

Editorial from Breek Publishing defending itself and reassuring its advertisers from a vaguely described 'enemy'.

These excerpts from the Arab Voice highlight a hideous anti-American editorial comparing America to a camel and reports on a meeting between the Arab Voice and a Democratic candidate for the Third Congressional District of Arizona.

In these excerpts, the Muslim Voice again stands proudly with Hamas, stands with the convicted Abu Ali (American traitor), and makes threats against the west and western media in the wake of the Danish cartoons.

Local Muslim Voice continues disinformation campaign against U.S. military.

This piece calls for the Palestinian right of return and mocks Jewish identification with Israel.

The Arab Voice hypocritically chastises its sister organization, CAIR, for welcoming King Abdullah.

We are disseminating this information to make sure that our fellow Arabic and Muslim community is fully aware of the type of ideology being distributed by our businesses and places of worship.

This piece equates President Bush and the American troops in Iraq to Ginghis Kahn and the savage Mongolians of the 13th century.

Arabic language article in February 2006 issue of the local Arab Voice celebrating the recent victory of Hamas. Columnist, Mohammed Riyad, heralds the victory as an "expression of the will of the entire Arab nation."

Dr. Jasser responds to Arizona Muslim Voice community newspaper hate cartoon against him

Muslim Voice reports and editorializes claiming victimization from a cartoon by the Arizona Republic's cartoonist Steve Benson and includes M. Zuhdi Jasser's columns defending Islam in its victimization propaganda.

Awad and Islamists at CAIR meet with the OIC and announce project in the US on the heels of recent Bush announcement of OIC envoy.

Coptic intellectual Magdi Khalil discusses the attitude of Dr. Muhammad Salim Al-'Awa, a prominent figure in political Islam in the Arab world, towards Egypt's Copts.

Islamists argue that the term islamofascism is no better than Islamic democracy since ideal rule is islamism.

The global war on terror and its principal players is but a scene from the historical development of globalisation the West has championed.

This interview is a freightening look into the mind of UK born cleric who calls Bin Laden his hero and the targeting of innocents- 'Islamic'.

"The idea put forward is that if Muslims could not prove Islam compatible to democracy, they better leave Islam aside and accept living by the fascist standards and values which now have come to be known as democracy."

Establishing an Islamic system of government is not simply an alternative but an imperative.

Jan calls western democracies fascist colonialists.

This piece is a classic Islamist anti-American propaganda piece with no basis in fact.

Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden charged on Sunday, April 23, that attempts to isolate the Hamas-led Palestinian government was proof of a crusade war against Islam.

Spain shuts down an Al Qaeda webmaster plotting against the U.S. and the west.

MINISTER in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz's remarks calling upon non-Muslims not to interfere in Islam with a threat that the government would not hesitate to use the Sedition Act against those who insulted Islam as reported in the media are a source for some concern.

The following are excerpts from an interview by Osama bin Laden's former mufti Saudi cleric Musa Al-Qarni. The interview aired on Dubai TV, on March 18, 2006. It is followed by other appearances by Musa Al-Qarni on Iqra TV.

An Afghan man is being prosecuted in a Kabul court and could be sentenced to death on a charge of converting from Islam to Christianity, a crime under this country's Islamic laws.

An opinion piece from a Saudi which even when speaking of reforming the draconian Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia), finds reasons to continue Haia rather than disband this thought police.

An Islamist diatribe dismissing western calls for the liberation of Muslim women as camouflage for a reason to occupy Muslim lands. Anti-western hate commentary

An Islamist argues that all subjects must be taught in a theological manner rather than in a secular manner.

Islamists are winning because they present a mainstream package which speaks to the citizenry. Those who speak of reform and western democracies are in fantasyland.

An op-ed which allows a look into the mind of a conspiracy theorist.

This Islamist op-ed predicts the upcoming demise of Western Civilization.

Mullah Krekar, Muslim refugee in Norway stated that the war going on between the West and Islam would be won by Islam. He praised bin Laden

This 'nonviolent' website demonizes the West and drives the conspiracy theory of a clash of Islam vs. the West all under the guise of protesting a private Danish paper's offensive cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

Chilling excerpts of hate from a television program with Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi,aired on Qatar TV

An Ideological Manifesto for Islamism

An ideological manifesto for Islamism

In this polemic Khilafah try to make the conclusion that derived from Hadith is a legal blueprint for government and society. This piece defines why Islamism is an antithesis to the separation of religion and politics.

Islamists express their disdain for western freedoms

Siraj Mufti from the MAS gives this Islamist explanation of why Muslims should use the mosque for political purposes. This reads as an antithesis to the mission of AIFD.