M. Zuhdi Jasser

<youtube size="medium" align="right" caption="Reza Aslan accuses M. Zuhdi Jasser of Islamophobia for making false claims about the funding of a new Islamic Centre in Manhattan">JOp4O9FwzRw</youtube>M. Zuhdi Jasser, a Syrian-American, runs the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, a right-wing one-man-show he founded in 2003. He is also 'one of the founding members' of Center for Islamic Pluralism (CIP), an organisation set up by Daniel Pipes.About (AIFD) AIFD News: A moderate voice of Muslim pluralism with a Washington address The group also has Pipes' endorsement.Andrew Maykuth, "Battle for the Heart of Islam," The Philadelphia Inquirer, 30 December 2005 In a debate on CNN, he was accused of Islamophobia by Islam scholar Reza Aslan for making accusations about the funding of a new Islamic centre in New York. He is a backer of far-right pro-Israel Republican Joshua Scharf;Richard Silverstein, Radical Islam wants you...and America, Tikun Olam, 2 October 2008 and he was also an active player in the Islamophobic 'Ground Zero Mosque' campaign. 
In June 2015, Jasser spoke on Fox in support of a methodologically dubious poll of Muslim-Americans carried out by the Center for Security Policy.Trump Calls for Ban on Muslims, Cites Deeply Flawed Poll, The Bridge Initiative, 7 December 2015.
==Affiliations==
===Organisations===
*Guest at the Defeat Jihad Summit 2015. ŒDefeat Jihad Summit¹ Challenges Islamic Supremacism ­ And The Obama ŒStrategy¹and A.U.M.F. That Disregard It, Center for Security Policy, 10 February 2015, accessed 18 December 2015 
*Center for Security Policy - Contributor to CSP front group Family Security Matters
*American Islamic Forum for Democracy - founder and sole member until 2007
*Center for Islamic Pluralism - a founding member
*Center for Security Policy - winner of the 'Defender of the Home Front' award at CSP's annual Keeper of the Flame Dinner.
*Clarion Fund - Jasser narrates and makes an appearance in Aish HaTorah Rabbi Raphael Shore's 2008 film The Third Jihad, described by writer Richard Silverstein 'an anti-Muslim train wreck of a film 'that reeks of partisan political bias'. As of 2015 Jasser is one of three members of the advisory board of the Fund's successor organisation, the Clarion Project.
*Committee on the Present Danger - member
*Family Security Matters - a far right publication to which Jasser contributes. 
*Gatestone Institute - sits on the board of this organisation run by the 'sugar mama of Islamophobia', Nina Rosenwald
*Middle East Forum - Jasser is a contributor to Daniel Pipes's far right Middle East Quarterly.
*Hudson Institute - Jasser is a contributor to its in-house publication Hudson New York
===Associates===
*Daniel Pipes - Jasser is 'one of the founding members' of Pipes's Center for Islamic Pluralism.
*Zeyno Baran - Jasser has contributed a chapter to Baran's new book The Other Muslims: Moderate and Secular (Palgrave Macmillan)
==Publications==
*Author of The Battle for the Soul of Islam: An American Muslim Patriot’s Fight to Save His Faith (Simon & Schuster, June 2012). 
*Is featured in four documentaries America at Risk, Islam v Islamists, A Question of Honor and The Third Jihad.
==External resources==
*[Zuhdi Jasser], Right Web
==References==
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