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M. Zuhdi Jasser is a physician, a Navy veteran, an American patriot and a Muslim who does not hold with those who preach that Islam commands its followers to take part in a war against unbelievers.
“The Third Jihad: Radical Islam’s Vision for America,” a documentary film Jasser narrated, takes a hard look at those Muslims who are waging this war — both with bombs and by stealthier means. The film had been among the educational materials used to train New York City police officers. Then, last month, The New York Times went on what one might call a crusade against the movie, publishing a series of articles branding it a “hate-filled film about Muslims,” suggesting it was scandalous for the New York Police Department to have screened it, and calling on Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly to “apologize for the film … and make clear that his department does not tolerate such noxious and dangerous stereotyping.”
In the first of its stories, the Times charged that the film “casts a broad shadow over American Muslims.” That ignores the unambiguous statement with which the documentary opens: “This is not a film about Islam. It is about the threat of radical Islam. Only a small percentage of the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims are radical.”
The story quotes Jasser as saying in the film: “This is the true agenda of Islam in America.” What Jasser actually said in the film is that jihad is “the true agenda of much of the Muslim leadership here in America.”
Jasser has long argued — and he is not alone in this — that the leaders of some of the most powerful organizations claiming to represent American Muslims are not as moderate as they would have you believe. Prominent among such organizations is CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, apparently the driving force behind the Times coverage.
The Times chooses not to inform its readers that CAIR was an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism-financing trial in the U.S. to date, the 2007 U.S. v. Holy Land Foundation, et al. The Times also neglects to report that the FBI has broken all ties with CAIR.
The paper never bothered to interview Jasser. Nor did the Times quote Robert Jackson, the only Muslim on the New York City Council, who told other reporters that while he “initially thought from reading about (the film) that it cast a negative image on all Muslims … it does not. It focuses on the extreme Muslims that are trying to hurt other people.” The Times turned down an op-ed by former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge and former CIA Director Jim Woolsey defending the documentary.
The Times’ stories present not a single factual error. However, illustrating the first story was an image of the White House with a black Islamic flag flying above it. The Times called that “a doctored photograph,” leaving readers to infer that the filmmakers had done the doctoring. In fact, that image was found on a jihadist website. (Such images are common on such sites, as any reporter working the terrorism beat should know.)
CAIR calls itself a Muslim “civil rights” organization and most of the major media take it at its word. Jasser has pointed out that one of its main missions is to silence critics, to deprive them of the right to free speech. One of the ways this is done, Jasser says, is by making it appear that Muslim reformers are themselves extremists: “That is what the vicious distortions about this film do to my work and the work of so many others within the House of Islam who are trying to publicly take on the American Islamist establishment.”
Jasser adds: “Were Americans ever to finally become educated to the slippery slope between nonviolent Islamism (political Islam) and Islamist militancy, the legitimacy of these Muslim Brotherhood-legacy groups would evaporate.”
The barriers to providing such education are growing. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has denounced “The Third Jihad.” The NYPD has stopped showing it. CAIR is not satisfied. The organization has demanded that Kelly resign and that the police department “offer a concrete plan to help counter the misinformation about Islam and Muslims provided to almost 1,500 officers through the screening of ‘The Third Jihad.’”
This week, I happened to be in New York’s Penn Station, where I heard an announcement on the public address system: “If you see something, say something.” Zuhdi Jasser has seen something. CAIR wants him to shut up about it. And CAIR has friends in high places.
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Clifford D. May is president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, an institute focusing on national security and foreign policy. Email May at cliff@defenddemocracy.org. May writes for Scripps Howard News Service.
4 Comments for Crusade against ‘Third Jihad’ Harms America
@Frank. You bring up compelling points that leave little margin for argument, however; radical Islam based upon Sunni elitism is a threat even to other muslims who abhor the Muslim Brotherhood and the threat that they present against secularism.
Regarding Syria and Christian klling, I will have to ask that you check the State Dept of the US govt where it verifies my research regarding the Syria’s wishes to sustain secular governance that is being compromised by the Muslim Bro. al-Assad is not a Sunni elite and his tenuous relationship in the Arab world is not a threat to Israel but a very large threat to Turkey where Kurds are still killed and burried in mass graves.
Any sect of Islam besides Sunni (radical or fundamental elitist) falls under dhimmitude as do Christians and Jews. al-Assad is of a sect of Islam that recognizes Jewish and Christian celebrations which are an abomination to the Sunni radical elite and mandate reason for the coup d’état.
The MSM does not bother to distinguish that the crimes against humanity in Syria are to stop radical Islam and the political coup vying to bring about Shar’a and militant Islam.
There exists no separation of religious practice and politics in radical fundamentalism. It becomes an all encompassing ideology that must experience the use of force to contain. This is exactly what al-Assad is doing for which he is being condemned. It is the very scenario that the U.S. will experience for the same reason – coup d’état to eradicate the constitution of the United States and enliven the final stage of jihad prior to the coming of the 12th imam.
One thing is certain, we must all vote collectively to end the current administration.
@Robi3304 and @Frank, I thank you both, your comments shed light on my understanding. Although I’m aware of divisions within the Muslim religion those distinctions aren’t always clear to me. What Rob wrote seems reasonable. If history has proven anything it’s proven any one person or group can be intimidated even other Mulims. However I am also aware of things written in the Quran and other documents about killing and/or enslaving infidels as Frank pointed out. My question is are these things written and accepted in all versions of the Quran and all sects? Rob you’ve made the necessary distinctions our media will not make. If I understand you Assad is fighting fire with fire. It’s an understanding we as a country have yet to grasp and I believe it’s the only thing that will work. The deliberate obtuseness of this Administration and their co conspiritors the Main Stream media is maddening, dangerous and make no mistake it is deliberate. I can’t imagine what kind of a world we’d have without Christianity and Judaism. It’s seems many of our leaders not only imagine it they welcome it, while other are too stupid, too cowards or busy with their portfolios. We have to realize what will happen if we don’t wake up and I think columns like what you both have written will help if only more people read them.
“It’s seems many of our leaders not only imagine it they welcome it, while other are too stupid, too cowards or busy with their portfolios.”
Should be
“It’s seems many of our leaders not only imagine it they welcome it, while other are too stupid, too cowardly, or busy with their portfolios.”
I have to be more careful with cut and paste when I edit.
M. Zuhdi Jasser and many other Muslim’s have never bothered to read the Qu Ran , the Hadeeth’s and study the history of Islam. It is good he sees that Caire is a front for the Muslim Brotherhood whose only goal is to reinstall the Caliphate , the successor to Mohammed and another attempt at world domination that ended with the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
The Qu-ran states over 200 times to kill the infidel [any non Muslim} and any references to allowing other religions to exist were written before Mohammed found the Jews and Christians would never accept him as the great prophet he claimed to be. All such references were abrogated, they were replaced, :Allah” changed his mind. This is known to anyone who ever seriously studied the Qu ran .
While it is true the majority of Muslims would rather live in peace it is absolutely irrelevant. History has shown that when there is a militant uprising in Islam , or whenever they become the majority in a country, the :moderate” Muslim’s always begin to kill those they were at peace with when their leaders demand it. No where in history is there a record of moderate Muslim’s stopping a Muslim bloodbath against Christians and Jews. Mohammed personally ordered the beheading of over 800 Jews who had surrendered and sold their wives and children into slavery , those he did not keep for himself.
When our leaders from George Bush to Obama and people like the mayor of New York tell you Islam is a religion of peace they are lying through their teeth. As we speak there is an ethnic cleansing of Christians in Syria, a former Christian country. There are few left alive. Egypt has a similar slaughter going on but at a slower pace and in Libya the people we fought to put in power at the dictatorial orders of Barrack Hussein Obama are capturing Christians and cutting off body parts until they receive the ransom they demand.
All over the Middle East people are being ginned down, beheaded , having their genitals ripped off with pliers and impaled {a sharp pole is jammed in their rectum and they are left to die over a period of days} all for the “crime” of spreading the Gospel of Christ.
It can and will happen here unless we elect some leaders with the backbone to call Islam what it is , A Satanic , bloodthirsty cult.. As happened in Holland some will die for speaking this truth but that is why we need statesmen, not cowardly politicians.