In his presentation “Confronting Islamism and the Global ‘Red-Green Axis’: Why the Fight Against Antisemitism is the Litmus Test of Honest Muslim Reform,” Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser will examine how political Islam fuels antisemitism and radicalization within global Muslim communities, why there is no military solution, and how modern Muslim reform is essential for the security of the West and Israel. He will explain how the greatest obstacles to reform are not only Middle Eastern ‘petro-Islam’ and entrenched Islamist networks but also their alliances with far-left movements and identity politics in the West.
Dr. Jasser will also present the work of the CLARITy Coalition, a diverse coalition of leaders in the US, Canada, and Europe, he co-founded to unite Muslims, ex-Muslims, and allies in defending liberty, democracy, and secular governance against Islamist tyranny.
About the speaker:
Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser is a prominent activist and expert on jihad, terrorism, religious liberty, the Mid-East, and national security policy. He founded the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (in 2003), a counter-ideology, counterterrorism, national security organization based in Phoenix. He was presented with the FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award in 2007.
Dr. Jasser has become a frequent lead witness and trusted subject-matter expert for several congressional and senate committees over the past 12 years. Dr. Jasser was appointed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), serving two terms as Commissioner and Vice-Chair from 2012 to 2016. Dr. Jasser helped lead and co-found in 2015 the Muslim Reform Movement a growing coalition of pro-liberty anti-Islamist Muslim reform-minded organizations based in the United States, Canada and Europe. He is also the co-founder and co-chair of the CLARITy Coalition founded in 2020 to defend Western values against Islamism (political Islam).
Dr. Jasser is a contributing author to a number of books, journals, newspapers and reports. He is a frequent columnist and guest on numerous media outlets including Fox News, Newsmax, Wall Street Journal, Arizona Republic, National Review, SkyNews, CBS, Al Jazeera, and BBC and many of the top national radio programs and has appeared in several documentaries. He is the author of the acclaimed 2012 Simon & Schuster book The Battle for the Soul of Islam: An American Muslim Patriot Fight to Save His Faith. He was also featured in the book Conversations with the Rabbi by Rabbi Michael Beyo.
Dr. Jasser is the son of Syrian political refugee immigrants who escaped Syria in 1966 and is a native of the small town of Neenah, Wisconsin. He graduated in 1992 from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee on a full U.S. Navy scholarship. Dr. Jasser served as Medical Department Head aboard the USS El Paso (LKA-117) from July 1993 to May 1994 serving in deployment as part of Operation Restore Hope in Somalia. Dr. Jasser completed his training in internal medicine at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland in 1996 and was selected Chief of Residents from 1996-97. Zuhdi then served as staff internist to the Office of the Attending Physician of the U.S. Congress and U.S. Supreme Court from 1997-99. He was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for this service at the culmination of 11 years in the Navy in May ‘99.
Dr. Jasser has been in private practice in Phoenix specializing in internal medicine (primary care), nuclear cardiology, and medical bioethics since 1999 and is founder and President of the Jasser Center for Comprehensive Care, in Phoenix.
Zuhdi, and his wife Gada, who is a clinical oncology pharmacist, have been married over 27 years, and have three children, all born and raised in Arizona.