Entries by M. Zuhdi Jasser

Family Security Matters OpEd: The Center for American Progress Fear, Inc. Report: A Roadblock to American Progress

The Center for American Progress (CAP) recently issued a 132 page report entitled “Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America” (pdf). The report’s supposed objective is to “expose-and marginalize-the influence of the individuals and groups” that CAP claims are a part of an “Islamophobia network in America.”

What to do about Syria?

There is no dearth of ideas about how the Obama administration might assist the people of Syria, usher the downfall of President Bashar al-Assad and prevent civil war. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), and Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) announced “new bipartisan legislation that would establish tougher U.S. sanctions against Syria and hold President Bashar al-Assad’s regime accountable for its human rights abuses. Save Syria Now welcomes this action and urges the Obama Administration to do more.

Unreliable advice from this Muslim group

A concern that federal officials, both military and civilian, are getting bad advice about the domestic threat from radical Islam, because many of their Muslim advisers were members of groups that aren’t on the right side of the war on terror, or at least they continue to see things through a dangerously misleading lens.