Entries by AIFD

8/9/13 US security alert belies claim of al-Qaeda’s demise

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Source: Financial Times High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/997f5266-0116-11e3-8918-00144feab7de.html#ixzz2blpcbHm1 A stepped-up campaign of drone strikes in Yemen and diplomatic missions shut in 19 countries, and another on Friday in […]

Happy Fourth of July from AIFD

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This Fourth of July, AIFD wishes you and yours a happy, safe, and powerful day in celebration of our great nation. It is only because of the sacrifices of those great patriots – our founding fathers and mothers, who came to America in search of a new freedom – that we have the liberty to […]

7/16/13 From Benghazi to Boston: The state of the jihad

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Source: CNN Editor’s note: This is one in a series of stories and opinion pieces previewing the upcoming Aspen Security Forum. Security Clearance is a media sponsor of the event, which is taking place from July 17 to 20 in Aspen, Colorado. Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst and the author of “Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search […]

10/11/13 OPCW Nobel Prize a cruel joke on the Syrian people: Chemical weapons narrative continues to hide genocide of the Syrian people

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  MEDIA CONTACTS:         Gregg Edgar Gordon C. James Public Relations gedgar@gcjpr.com 602-690-7977   OPCW Nobel Prize a cruel joke on the Syrian people Chemical weapons narrative continues to hide genocide of the Syrian people Obama Administration and UN commend Syria while Assad’s killing machine still slaughters thousands of Syrians    PHOENIX (October 11, 2013) – […]

7/15/13 Egypt turmoil: US envoy Burns meets interim leaders

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BBC News, July 15, 2013 US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns has held talks in Cairo with Egypt’s caretaker leaders. He met interim President Adly Mansour and Prime Minister Hazem al-Beblawi, as well as the head of the armed forces, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. He said the US remained committed to an Egypt that […]

9/14/13 Egyptian Christian, Who Is Son of Coptic Leader, to Lead Muslim Brotherhood Party in Egypt?

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Source: The Christian Post Excerpt from article: Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, author of A Battle for the Soul of Islam: An American Muslim Patriot’s Fight to Save His Faith and president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD), told CP in a Tuesday interview, “I don’t even know how to explain it – how a Christian would be helping […]

Nidal Hasan Sentenced to Death

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Today, a military jury recommended that Nidal Malik Hasan, who murdered 13 American soldiers and wounded 32 others at Fort Hood on November 5, 2009, be sentenced to death. We at AIFD have been following this case closely – and commenting on it regularly. In his 2012 book, A Battle for the Soul of Islam, […]

Moderate Muslims Must Oppose Islamism

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By M. Zuhdi Jasser National Review Online, 04/20/13 The terror attacks in Boston, perpetrated by the Tsarnaev brothers, have finally come to an end with the capture of the younger brother Dzhoakhar in Watertown on Friday evening. One hopes that Dzhoakhar survives just long enough to tell us whether he was working with any foreign […]