AIFD Headlines & Commentaries

AIFD President, M. Zuhdi Jasser, will speak about the need for Muslims to counter political Islam to members of the Columbus Muslim community on July 26, 2008 at the Noor Islamic Cultural Center.

Americans should ask- why isn't the work this committee completed not being done by Muslim NGO's?

Federal Bureau of Investigation today awarded AIFD Chairman, Zuhdi Jasser, the Director's Community Leadership Award.

For those who missed the limited release of ABG Films' Islam v. Islamists on PBS this fall, Fox News will be airing the controversial documentary in its entirity this Saturday, October 20, 2007 at 9PM EST.

The controversy over the Muslim appointee at the Virginia Commission on Immigration should highlight important ideological benchmarks in vetting government appointees.

AIFD statement concerning recent NYPD Counterterrorism Report

OPB is now distributing for airing this month Islam v. Islamists, the documentary produced by ABG Films, Inc. and shelved from the Crossroads Program.

AIFD Press Statement concerning hostages taken by Taliban in Afghanistan

Muslim organization believes that lawsuit filed by CAIR today on behalf of Phoenix Imams is wrong for American Muslims and wrong for America.

AIFD Chairman, M. Zuhdi Jasser, calls the attention of the American Muslim Community to the Freedom House Report released today and the need for Muslims to lead a grass roots effort to rid American mosques of this ideology of hate.

Yusuf Al-Qaradawi and the Muslim Brotherhood understand exactly what is at stake in the war of ideas between the Islamic world and the West…but do we?

The MB officially responds to growing criticism of its connections to American Islamist organizations. "They doth protest too much."

How many of our State Department employees are following Qaradawi's Arabic writings and its influence upon impressionable Muslims?

Recent attempts by government to control the Islamic lexicon is a major obstacle in the war of ideas.

Dr. Jasser comments on recent reports on the resignation of CAIR's Chairman and his apparent criticism of the organization he left.

Few realize how central "Islamic politics" in America is to the driving force of transnational Islamism and its threat to American security

What appears on the surface to be an innocent distribution of Qur'ans is far from it. The network of organizations and Islamists connected are a clear and present danger to Americans and to our national security.

Conduct unbecoming a mosque...but typcial of many Islamist institutions

The "battle for the soul of Islam" between Islamists and anti-Islamists needs to be forged expeditiously or the Islamists will continue their grand scheme of eventual and total domination.

Finally a debate occurred between an Islamist and an anti-Islamist Muslim

Joan interviews Dr. Jasser on the mission of AIFD and his personal struggles.

Abujihaad's conviction on espionage and treason should be a wake-up call to the dangers of political Islam in America.

Radical Islamism is the ideology which threatens American security. Dr. Jasser writes preceding his speech at the University of Florida-Gainesville.

Western liberal democracies should not accommodate to sharia. The debate on sharia should be between anti-Islamist and Islamist Muslims.

Dr. Jasser comments on the central issues regarding terrorism and Islamism not discussed in Presidential politics.

Dr. Jasser's speech to the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, PA. on October 29, 2007.

Bhutto's horrific assassination should be a call to action to the American Pakistani community to export liberty to their motherland.

The last in a three part series interview with NRO Editor Kathryn Lopez.

Part two of three of an extensive interview by National Review with Dr. Jasser

An interview with M. Zuhdi Jasser in the National Review Online on the threat and the obstacles we face.

CAIR-AZ invites local law enforcement Nov. 3 and their keynote speaker Eric Vickers delivers an embarrassingly malignant and false attack against the DOJ>

Dr. Jasser reviews the real story locally behind the flying imams in the Middle East Quarterly - winter 2008

Islamism is a veiled political insurgency. Time to discuss the political and governmental ideology taught in America's parochial Islamic schools.

The Arizona Republic asked local newsmakers to comment on what they are grateful for this Thanksgiving.

Many lessons in the HLF Trial for those countering Islamism and its facilitators.

HR 635 honoring Ramadan is naive and crosses the line of mosque and state.

While Muslim involvement in government is necessary, there must be a clear set of ideological standards to confront Islamism.

Democracy is not a solution, but rather is another weapon in the arsenal of militant Islamists.

A rare offering of a panel of Middle Eastern Americans taking a strong stand against the Iranian thug.

All Muslims own the Interpretation of the Koran

Dr. Jasser continues his discussion on who can interpret the Koran and why Muslims need to do so through a lens of liberty.

Dr. Jasser comments for the Glenn Beck show on the Perfect Day scenario and what the terrorists seek in attacking our schools.

All Muslims own the Interpretation of the Koran.

FSM Editors including Zuhdi Jasser, AIFD Chairman reflect on lessons since 9-11-01

Radical interpretation of the Koran is caused by 19th century Wahhabi fundamentalist radicalism and 20th century political Islam. In this series, FSM Contributing Editor M. Zuhdi Jasser urges modern, peaceful Muslims to interpret the Koran themselves in order to break away from this radicalism.

Islam vs. Islamists will finally air tonight on local public television. Dr. Jasser discusses how the internal Muslim debate about political Islam is central to this global ideological conflict.

Last month's physician terror plot left many wondering how those who vowed to heal could plot to kill. It's fascism.

Allowing Islamists to encroach upon the freedoms of others runs against American principles of religious liberty.

We shouldn't rush to celebrate the recent Pew poll reporting a decrease of support for terror among world Muslims.

Why is Congressman Ellison disgracefully spreading extremist propaganda about the Bush Administration?

Political Islam and its relationship to radical Islam is a grim reality, despite liberal pretensions to the contrary. In order to combat global terror, we cannot ignore the root causes of this growing ideological cancer.

Their recent reaction to the Washington Times reveals the methods of political Islam in America.

M. Zuhdi Jasser warns that ignoring the toxic signs of oppressive political Islam could place us in mortal danger.

It is vital to separate spiritual Islam from political Islam as we identify the ideology at conflict with Americanism.

M. Zuhdi Jasser and other National Review contributors discuss lessons learned from the New Jersey terror plot arrests.

The PBS censorship of Islam vs. Islamists highlights one of the major obstacles to hearing the Moderate Muslim Voice.

Looking deeper into the Islamism of the flying imams can teach us a great deal about their agenda in this lawsuit.

If guilty of providing aid and comfort to our enemies Petty Officer Hassan Abujihaad deserves the highest punishment. He is a disgrace to Islam.

Leiken and Brooke's whitewashing of the Muslim Brotherhood in the latest Foreign Affairs threatens the work of anti-Islamist Muslims.

Our government is being duped, through political correctness, into partnering with organizations which present themselves as being purely religious (Muslim) or ethnic (Arabic) but are actually solidly religio-political and Arab-political movements.

We should use Muslims' portrayal on '24' not as another excuse to play the victim, but as an opening to denounce Islamist radicals

M. Zuhdi Jasser challenges the stereotypical Muslim response to the fact that there are few Muslim soldiers in the U.S. military.

Muslim Imam from Dearborn manifests toxicity of Islamism

24 is an opportunity for American Muslims to fight the real enemy: Islamism

CAIR's Muslim pilgrim victim dragnet against American air carriers misses real discrimination by Saudi Airlines

Muslim Speeches, media, and our ideas deserve public scrutiny in order to jumpstart a real awakening within the Muslim consciousness.

CAIR seeks comfort in Saudi media from legitimate recent American Muslim criticism of them.

Dr. Jasser comments on the myopia and hypocrisy of the local Phoenix imams who claim victimization all the while avoiding our Muslim responsibility toward combating the ideology of militant islamism.

Local and National Islamist organizations stand by Mr. Ahmed and his agenda.

Action against local Islamist by City of Phoenix sets example for other cities on how to set standards for public discourse and against the mainstreaming of islamism.

Part three in a three-part series for The Washington Times

Part two in a three-part op-ed series in the Washington Times

Part one in a three-part series for The Washington Times

In Wednesday's Washington Times, it was refreshing to see Tony Blankley lead the way in demanding that the American public start asking more questions about Islamism. He asks the questions which very few are asking and yet seems so obvious after so long into this war.

The first step in a long journey for the Valley in exposing Islamist literature distributed by local Muslim activists.

Address by M. ZUHDI JASSER, Chairman of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, delivered to the Economics Discussion Group of Phoenix, Arizona.

An Egyptian Group calling itself 'al-Jama'ah Consultative Council" has disseminated a hit list of moderate Muslims in the West felt to be apostates. They gave the list three days to disavow their stances or they will be killed. This is a time for action against such evil.

Ibrahim Hooper's letter to the editor in the Washington Times continues to miss the point and rehash the same self-serving outrage.

We in the Muslim community need to develop a new paradigm for our organizations and think tanks which holds Muslims publicly accountable for the separation of the political from the spiritual. Gone should be the day where individuals and their organizations can hide behind the cloak of victimization as a smoke screen for what they really believe.

With today's release of Abdul Rahman on a lie euphemistically called a 'technicality', a young democracy in dire need of a formal public debate on the role of religion in its government and laws missed an opportunity to define itself.

The Center for Islamic Pluralism (CIP) based in Washington, D.C. is one of those organizations for which we have all been waiting. Even more potent than individual Muslims who take stands against political Islam are organizations and think tanks which begin to develop a body of thought which will live on for generations to represent moderate Muslim thought. Through the leadership of Stephen Suleyman Schwartz, CIP is positioning itself as a conservative moderate Muslim American voice.

Time to circumscribe the interpretation and applications of sharia. M. Zuhdi Jasser provides a lengthy commentary on religious law in Muslim majority nations in light of the recent apostasy case of Abdul Rahman in Afghanistan. We need to begin a public discourse within the Muslim community about the role, place, and limitations of implementation of sharia in Muslim majority nations.

This week the New York Times published an advertisement for the Sudanese government for which they were paid the handsome price of nearly one million dollars. Why would the paper accept blood money?

To mark the three-year anniversary this week of the Coalition going into Iraq, National Review Online gathered a group of experts for their read of how things are going. We asked, broadly: "What do you consider the most important points to keep in mind when considering Iraq three years after the Coalition invasion?" Here's what they had to say.

AIFD Chairman, M. Zuhdi Jasser writes in National Review Online on the motivating force behind the violent response to the Danish cartoons throughout the Muslim world.

AIFD Chairman responds to hate speech attacks from local Arizona Muslim Voice

AIFD Chairman, M. Zuhdi Jasser and Sikh Novelist, Soul Singh Khalsa, comment on the lessons which France should learn from America's unique form of secularism in the face of its spreading Muslim riots

Beliefnet.com asks Salam al-Marayati, executive director of MPAC (Muslim Public Affairs Council) to respond to Dr. Jasser's column on the need for Muslims and their organizations to "Wake-up to Islamo-fascism"

AIFD Chairman, Dr. Jasser, provides commentary, "that all Muslims must play a role in stopping the violence being done in the name of our faith."

There is a deep similarity and echo chamber with the neo-Nazis and Islamofascists.

The recent Hezbullah rally in Lebanon was a sickening demonstration which revealed a great deal about the truly evil nature of Hezbullah

The need for the media to publicize the great changes happening in the Middle East from Iraq to Lebanon.

The implications of the Hariri assassination for the Assad regime in Syria.

The world will soon witness the rebirth of an independent Iraqi nation - soon free with sovereign elections and leaders elected by and for the Iraqi people

Yesterday Abu Musab al-Zarqawi declared his allegiance to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida. The world heard about al-Zarqawi's call for "unity against the enemies of Islam". What are thei implications.

The newest Bin Laden video tape, aired so willingly by the Islamist Jihad Network, Al Jazeera, timed as an "October surprise" only days before our election carries many lessons for America.

There is a dangerous theocratic nature in the newly formed "Muslim voting bloc" and the American Muslim Political Coordination Committee-PAC.

Dr. Jasser comments on the groups which gathered along with AIFD in Washington D.C. for the Mid-Eastern American Convention for Freedom and Democracy

Yesterday's tragic bombings and murders in the Sinai demand that we more closely reflect upon the warped motivations of our enemies especially as we enter our elections.

We are fighting a global war against an ideology that seeks to defeat secular democracies. A few websites and associated organizations came to my attention recently that should be mandatory reading for all those who doubt that the stakes of the war are ideological at the core and not just global anti-American hate or fanatical "terror".

Fascists use Allah as an excuse for Murder.

Egypt's Invisible hand in propagating radical Islam

First we understand, then we fight

The crisis in Sudan has finally been labelled a genocide. Now it's about time we acted.

Church bombings in Iraq have all the hallmark signs of al-Qaida.

We need to identify the enemy. The Filipino government decided to appease the enemy.

Dr. Jasser briefly reflects this July 4th weekend on the road to American liberty and a patient perspective with regards to progress in Iraq.

In a brilliant move, the coalition forces turned over control of Iraq two days early pre-empting any plans for terrorist attacks on the day of the turnover or before. As of June 28, 2004, Iraq is now a sovereign nation- a historical moment for Iraq and for the Middle East.

Dr. Jasser expresses his revulsion as an American and as a Muslim at the recent barbaric series of kidnappings and beheadings done by Al Qaeda and their ilk. We need resolve in defeating these enemies of freedom and enemies of Islam who cloak themselves in a false theology.

In Jeff Jacoby's column this week he expressed his outrage at the barbaric proclamations of some medieval Muslim clerics. He cited the statements of a Saudi sheik and a European Muslim leader who condemned mutilations without condemning the wanton murders.

Muslim terrorists aiming at oil interests and destabilizing Saudi Arabia, continued their barbaric ways in Khobar this weekend killing more than 22 and taking more than 40 hostage. Where does this leave the Saudis?

I think it is imperative that Americans understand the causal relationship between their security and the war in Iraq. This is what President Bush was attempting to articulate, and this is how I see it.

Al Qaida's hooded demons took the life of Nick Berg in a monstrous display of medieval butchery. Their mortifying mention of God and Islam shook my soul beyond disgust and toward more resolve.

As a prior military officer and Navy physician, the recent revelations of the crimes perpetrated by American servicemen and women overseeing the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad struck me with profound shock, disgust and disappointment, to say the least. Those who committed the reported crimes are being brought to justice.

Al Jazeera and other anti-American networks have used the images of American and coalition forces attacking the mosque in Fallujah to further foment anti-American hate in the Middle East and in America. As a Muslim, a mosque used as a fortress is no longer a mosque.

Last week's atrocities in Fallujah reminded me of the animalistic mobs of Mogadishu Somalia.

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said President Bush has fueled the hate of Islamist terrorists for America. Isn't hate the normal reaction from fanatics nearing extermination?

As Arizonans and Americans start to tense over the most prolonged elevation of gas prices in recent memory, few pundits have analyzed the effect of OPEC upon this formula.

Marwan Ahmad of the Muslim Voice takes issue with my commentary way back from March 1, 2004 on the laughable recent Saudi 'slip-up' concerning their visa requirements. Mr. Ahmad exploited his discussion to not only discuss his soft-pedaled defense of the Saudi tribal monarchal government but also to personally indict me as somehow always being "negative about the Muslim community."

What does yesterday's election loss of Spain's conservative Popular party portend for the war on terror? While evidence is pointing more toward al-Qaida, one can be certain that whoever perpetrated the attacks wanted to instill fear in the Spanish electorate as they went to the polling booth.

This week in a border region of Israel and Jordan, Gen. Tommy Franks and Jack Kemp, joined American business leaders in breaking ground on a joint Jordanian and Israeli center called "Bridging the Rift."

The horrific bombings in Madrid Spain yesterday killed more than 190 people and injured more than 1,200. This was obviously an al-Qaida operation with 10 simultaneous explosions within Madrid's transportation system in a diverse country that was part of the coalition in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

If you think the war on terror is about Islam against the West, pay attention to Iraq. Something strange and grave is afoot there. Simultaneous attacks. An al-Qaida signature. Terrorists bringing homicidal carnage on Shiite Muslim shrines and pilgrims, wantonly killing 140-plus and injuring 400 on their holy day of Ashoura.

It was only two months ago that the Saudis were funding radio advertisements throughout the United States on our need as Americans to be patient as they move toward reform and tolerance.

I ran to see Gibson's Passion this week. It was a most heart-wrenching film with universal themes of Jesus' compassion. The graphic violence was overdone and more suited for the Dark Ages than 2004.Mass media in all its forms in America has a unique responsibility to guide the nonviolent tenor of religious discourse.

The Passion and recent commentary deserves comment on how Muslims and Islam view Jesus Christ-- a prophet of God no different from Moses or Mohammed.

On the Bishop O'Brien verdict

Paul Bremer has now opened the long awaited discussion. Will the new Iraq call itself "an Islamic state?"

This weekend, an American Airlines pilot turned his entire airplane and passengers into an evangelical bus trip in the sky.

As the so-called "intelligence failure" gains press, pundits insist our collective judgment on the war turns on unquestionable proof of WMD.

Dr. Jasser, AIFD Chairman, and Attorney Chris Thomas discuss the merits and harm of the Governor's speech at a Valley-wide Muslim holiday prayer service. Did it cross the line of religion and state?

At the Arizona capitol today, the people were subjected to a disgraceful prayer.

Immediately after the devastating tremor Friday in the Iranian city of Bam, relief groups from around the world mobilized their resources to assist the Iranian population of Bam in digging thousands out of the rubble. In a form of suicidal jihadism, the Iranian government declared it would accept relief from any country but Israel.