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By: The Clarion Fund’s Second Dud: The Third Jihad | Islamophobia Today Magazine

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:37:02 +0000

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By: Asim Ameer

Asim Ameer — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:26:26 +0000

Pretty amazing when you are reading a web page and see your name mentioned when you least expect it. Here is the straight skinny on Robin’s comment. In 2002, I was approached by Dr. Jasser with the idea of starting a ‘progressive Muslim think tank’. This think tank would be instrumental in bringing world class speakers to Phoenix and discuss issues pertaining to Muslims in general and American Muslims in particular. It seemed like a good idea at the time and I and a couple of others signed up for this. The fact that four members of the Board were immediate members of Dr. Jasser’ family (wife, father and mother along with him as Chairman) was a red flag. Soon it became apparent that this so called ‘Muslim think tank’ was just a phony front for a neo-con organization that was bent upon bashing mainstream Muslim organizations such as CAIR, MPAC, MAS, ISNA and others. I and two other Board members of AIFD resigned after recognizing the fact that this was a sham neo-con organization that did not have any plans for bringing about positive meaningful change. Over the years Dr. Jasser has been harshly critical of all mainstream Muslim organizations without exception. Oddly enough, his organization is the only ‘Muslim’ organization that does not have any kind of a following within mainstream American Muslims and will continue not to have a following because he is so anti Muslim himself. You have heard of self hating Jews, well here is a self hating Muslim. There is no pleasing this man unless or until all Muslim American organizations bow down to his master’s way of thinking (Iraq war was a great idea for one, never mind the losses of US soldiers and Iraqi civilians).
If a lie is told enough times, it eventually becomes the truth. Dr. Jasser has a high profile in the Phoenix media because he presents himself as a ‘reasonable’ voice who criticizes ‘Islamists’, ‘Islamofascists’ and other dubious titles he confers on Muslims he disagrees with. He is regularly featured on Phoenix area talk shows as a ‘Muslim expert’ when he isnt remotely qualified to be one. Simply put, he is invited to mostly conservative talk shows, because he tells the host what he wants to hear, not what he should hear.
An example, when 6 Imams were removed from a US Airways flight in Minneapolis he was critical of them for filing a lawsuit against the airline blaming them for playing the ‘victim game’. What he never mentioned was that the lawsuit was filed not for the Imams being removed from the aircraft but for US Airways refusal to let them board any flight, after they had been vetted and cleared by Homeland Security and Minneapolis Airport police as not being a threat to anyone. In addition, in a recent interview on a TV show, he said with a straight face that the Clarion Fund was a ‘group of concerned citizens’ At 4:24 of the video it gets interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXjufiJ5OsE

You be the judge how he dances around the truth. If Dr. Jasser wants to bring about meaningful change, he should work with other organizations and do it. He is regularly denounced by interfaith groups for his extreme views. He cannot take potshots at organizations with memberships in the thousands and denigrate them when his organization boasts of maybe a handful of people? Simply put, the AIFD is a front for neo-cons and Dr. Jasser has bought into this hook line and sinker and continues to be used by them.

By: B.BarNavi

B.BarNavi — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:07:12 +0000

“AIF’s political agenda is barely concealed radical-right Republicanism (though the group has 501c3 designation):

As United States citizens we support our American armed forces.

As United States citizens we support absolute and literal adherence to our citizenship pledge. [in case you feared Muslims as a potential fifth column]

…We will work to educate the public regarding the current threat to America of radicals who exploit Islam through militancy.

…We will work to express the consistency of the principles of Islam with economic principles of free markets and capitalism.

…We will work to promote the appreciation of the integral role of American patriotism and nationalism in the life of Muslim youth in America.

…we feel it is necessary to make a foundational position statement regarding the state of Israel. We stand in support of the existing unqualified recognition of the state of Israel”

I don’t know about you, but I think these are pretty reasonable demands to be made on ANYONE of American citizenship. Hardly qualifies as “radical-Republican” thinking here.

By: Updated | In the Wake of “Obsession” Hate-DVDs: Muslim Children Gassed in Ohio Mosque | MuslimMatters.org

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 02:23:02 +0000

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By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 08:19:44 +0000

@Yoni: If you mean to claim that Jewish extremist settlers are of less danger to Israel and Middle East peace than Muslim jihadis, I don’t accept the premise.

And by the way, the only reason that lightly injured professor didn’t lose both legs to amputation was that his suitcase, situated between his body and the bomb, absorbed most of the blow. Isn’t it convenient for Yoni, who has advocated the hanging of Ehud Olmert, to minimize an assassination attempt against one of the most distinguished professors on the faculty of the Hebrew University. After calling for Olmert’s execution he also attempted to minimize the impact of what he’d said. Sorry to say it but you’re an enabler of Jewish terrorism.

By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 08:14:21 +0000

@Yoni: Oh really this is preposterous. You’re seriously attempting to gauge the number of radical Islamists in the world by pulling numbers out of a hat???

Just because someone has the idiotic idea that Osama bin Laden should be their leader or a world leader (and I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt in accepting the Pew poll says what you claim it does–which could be a dangerous assumption for me to make knowing yr track record), that doesn’t mean they’re prepared to kill on behalf of radical Jihad. Similary, I’ve sat through some idiotic sermons and college lectures in my life. Does that mean that every lame idea I heard there I took seriously? Just because a Muslim heard an imam cry “death to America” again doesn’t mean that person has become a human shahid, ready to martyr himself on behalf of Islam.

Most Americans seem to believe in angels & all manner of claptrap. So what does it signify beyond the fact that they hold some strange personal ideas?

By: MT.Akbar

MT.Akbar — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:02:30 +0000

Nice post Richard. This guy is a complete useful idiot. He has written that he “is not an expert in Koranic Arabic, or Sharia.” Yet he has the gall to call himself an “expert.”

If you allow I also wrote about him earlier here:
http://mtakbar.wordpress.com/2007/12/09/zuhdi-jasser-who-does-he-really-work-for/

Thanks,
-MT

By: Yoni

Yoni — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:53:23 +0000

It’s just strange that your reactions to the attack on Prof. Sternhell and the Radical Islam are mirror images of each other:

on the one hand, it is in fact extremist settlers who probably number in the thousands and exist in a tiny incy wincy area called the West Bank, while extremist Muslims number in the hundreds of millions and take up virtually entire countries like Pakistan. Yet you made a whole post about the danger of extremist settlers based on a lightly injured professor, but play down a documentary that talks about world wide extremist Muslims who number in the hundreds of millions and have slaughtered millions from Sudan to Algeria to Indonesia.