Zuhdi Jasser

Zuhdi Jasser is a former U.S. Navy lieutenant commander and a practicing private physician in Phoenix, Arizona, specializing in internal medicine and nuclear cardiology. Jasser is also the president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, a nonprofit organization based in Phoenix, Arizona. Founded in 2003, AIFD is a think thank and activist Muslim organization that describes itself as “confronting the ideologies of political Islam and openly countering the common belief that the Muslim faith is inextricably rooted to the concept of the Islamic State (Islamism).”

Jasser lacks any policy or academic expertise in Islam and promotes conspiratorial claims that radical Muslims have infiltrated America. "America is at war with theocratic Muslim despots who seek the imposition of sharia and don't believe in the equality of all before the law, blind to faith,” says Jasser.

He repeats Frank Gaffney’s claims that mainstream Muslim groups are fronts for Islamist groups wishing to advance Sharia and political Islam within America. Jasser also dangerously and incorrectly labels mainstream Muslim organizations as subversive, disloyal proponents of a radical Islamic takeover. He claims that their “patriotism involves taking the American flag and adding a little crescent – and, of course, turning America into an Islamic state.”

Jasser served as a witness for Rep. Peter King’s (R-NY) Muslim radicalization hearings and has in fact emerged as the leading Muslim validator for the Islamophobia network. He also appears frequently in fear-mongering documentaries portraying Islam and Muslims as potential threats, including narrating the Clarion Project’s film “The Third Jihad,” which claims that radical Muslim extremists have infiltrated America with the nefarious purpose of establishing a theocracy.