page_title: Zuhdi Jasser
hierarchical_section_title: Zuhdi Jasser
caption_attribution_description: English: M. Zuhdi Jasser speaking at the 2018 CPAC in National Harbor, Maryland.
context_page_description: Zuhdi Jasser, also known as M. Zuhdi Jasser, and Mohamed Zuhdi Jasser is an American medical doctor specializing in internal medicine and nuclear cardiology in Phoenix, Arizona. Jasser is a former lieutenant commander in the United States Navy, where he served as staff internist in the Office of the Attending Physician of the United States Congress. In 2003, with a group of American Muslims, Jasser founded the American Islamic Forum for Democracy based in Phoenix, Arizona, and in 2004 he was one of the founders of the Center for Islamic Pluralism.
  He is also a contributor to national and international media, where he has advocated separation of mosque and state and spoken against the ideology of "political Islam" or Islamism. He has been a frequent guest on Fox News Channel, Newsmax TV, CNN, CBS, MSNBC, and TheBlaze. He has also contributed articles to nationally read newspapers such as the Arizona Republic, The Dallas Morning News, The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Times.
  In March 2012, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appointed Jasser to serve a two-year term on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
context_section_description: Zuhdi Jasser, also known as M. Zuhdi Jasser, and Mohamed Zuhdi Jasser (Arabic: محمد زهدي جاسر‎; born 17 November 1967) is an American medical doctor specializing in internal medicine and nuclear cardiology in Phoenix, Arizona. Jasser is a former lieutenant commander in the  United States Navy, where he served as staff internist in the Office of the Attending Physician of the United States Congress. In 2003, with a group of American Muslims, Jasser founded the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) based in Phoenix, Arizona, and in 2004 he was one of the founders of the Center for Islamic Pluralism.
  He is also a contributor to national and international media, where he has advocated separation of mosque and state and spoken against the ideology of "political Islam" or Islamism. He has been a frequent guest on Fox News Channel, Newsmax TV, CNN, CBS, MSNBC, and TheBlaze. He has also contributed articles to nationally read newspapers such as the Arizona Republic, The Dallas Morning News, The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Times.
  In March 2012, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) appointed Jasser to serve a two-year term on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
caption: Zuhdi Jasser at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference
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