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Note: Video included. Jasser Challenges Congressman on Reform's Value IPT News October 2, 2009 Video Recording At a Capitol Hill forum Thursday afternoon, U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) demonstrated how Islamists use slander and distortion in an effort to silence Muslim reformers. Ellison delivered a tirade in which he falsely accused Dr. Zuhdi Jasser - one of the United States' most prominent Muslim reformers - of encouraging anti-Muslim bigotry and attempting to censor Islamists. Jasser, a Phoenix, AZ doctor who heads the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, came to Washington to brief members of Congress and their staffs about the...

Going through conservative radio withdrawl now, bunky? Its Sunday and its been a full 48 hours without hearing conservative voices? Join us Sunday evening, June 7 at 8 PM Eastern for a NiteCap at Freedom Radio with Michael Tremoglie, Freeper Brytani, Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, and Peter Connors. Sit back, relax, get out the cigars, the pork rinds and the Michelob and join in the fun as oil the gears that will take our country back. Mr. Tremoglie has written a series of tremendous essays about our military for the Philadelphia Bulletin and is the author of an amazing novel,...

As we try to understand where the Obama administration will fall with regards to the global threat of political Islam, the first few months have provided a number of hints, not least of which was the tenor of the recent visit to Turkey. It was painfully obvious after witnessing the length to which the Obama team went to avoid any substantive discussion on political Islam and the threat it poses to human rights abroad and domestically. Domestically, in the weeks preceding his trip, Islamists inside the Beltway began to more openly play their cards to what they obviously perceive to...

Recently, President Obama's transition staff announced that he would like to deliver a speech in the first 100 days of his administration in an Islamic capital to improve America's image in the Muslim world. The best venue for this speech is certainly Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The following is the speech President Obama will never give to the Muslim world. But it never hurts to dream… President Obama: Thank you. As we begin to lay the groundwork of my administration, I have been looking forward to this, my maiden voyage as President of the United States into the Muslim world. As...

IPT News January 23, 2009 During the transition, aides to President Barack Obama indicated he wanted to travel to a Muslim capital and deliver a speech early in his administration. Improving relations to the Muslim world is a goal he stated Tuesday in his inaugural address: "To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West, know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy." In anticipation...

Movie shows 'war you don't know about' PREMIERE: "The Third Jihad," a documentary about radical Islam, was screened at Harkins theater in Scottsdale. Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, left, narrated the film and was on hand to take questions after the showing. By Ari Cohn "We all know about terrorism. This is the war you don't know about," Dr. Zuhdi Jasser intones from the movie screen over images of radical Islamists burning the American flag after Sept. 11. Jasser, who lives in Scottsdale and practices medicine in Phoenix, is the narrator of the documentary "The Third Jihad: Radical Islam's Vision for America,"...

Exclusive: Islamism and the So-called ‘Muslim Voting Bloc’: Shades of Theocracy M. Zuhdi Jasser July 4, 2008 The modus operandi for the political empowerment of Islamists in America is in full public display during every election cycle. The sad part is few realize how central "Islamic politics" is to the driving force of transnational Islamism and its threat to American security. The incessant attempts by American Islamist groups (like the MAS, CAIR, MPAC, ISNA, ICNA to name a few) to collectivize Muslims in the body politic - from voter registrations to their ideological grievance mill - point to their goals....

In War against Islamism, We Must Listen to the Words of Our Enemies M. Zuhdi Jasser President George Bush delivered his last State of the Union address this week over a backdrop of the 2008 Presidential primary season. Eight years of the Bush doctrine in the misnamed “War on Terror” is being ushered out. Yet, neither the President nor any of his potential successors have been effectively challenged by the media, Congress, or the voters on the contest of ideas in this global “War on Terror.” A review of the Presidential candidate websites demonstrates how little depth most candidates exhibit...

With Friends Like These: CAIR Reaches Out for a Setup M. Zuhdi Jasser December 7, 2007 It has been a while since I have paid much attention to the antics of local leading Islamists here in Phoenix. But last month’s fundraiser on November 3rd for the local chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations-Arizona demonstrated the deep-seated pathology and duplicity of this so-called “leading American Muslim civil rights organization.” It appears that staging opportunities to embarrass the American justice system and its leadership is also turning into the modus operandi for this self-described “representative of Arizona Muslims.” Their recent...

Exposing the "Flying Imams" by M. Zuhdi Jasser Middle East Quarterly/Winter 2008 (excerpt) (I cut out the intro and background on this Flying Imams case, just to shorten the article a bit) My Experience with the Phoenix Imams I have known three of the plaintiffs in the U.S. Airways suit for almost a decade. Soon after settling in Arizona in 1999, I became involved in the local Muslim community. Before moving to Scottsdale, I usually attended Friday congregational prayer services at the Islamic Community Center of Tempe, Arizona. Often, Ahmed Shqeirat, now the primary plaintiff, delivered sermons at the mosque...

Begin the Debate: Nine-Point Guide to Discern Islamist from Non-Islamist Schools By M. Zuhdi Jasser Islamism is a veiled political insurgency Last month, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released specific concerns about the Saudi Academy in Northern Virginia. The USCIRF raised a number of issues of concern for American security in their October 19 release not least of which is the operation of a school for high school age children, The Islamic Saudi Academy, on American soil in northern Virginia administered and funded by a foreign embassy. The USCIRF also specifically brought attention to hate and...

2007 Keeper of the Flame Award Center for Security Policy | Oct 17, 2007 (Washington, D.C.): On Wednesday, the Center for Security Policy paid tribute to Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and Defenders of the Home Front – the men and women who work daily to keep us and our families safe here at home. Senator Lieberman's address to the nearly 350 attendees at this elegant black-tie dinner held at Washington's landmark Union Station was preceded by a welcome from Mr. Linden Blue, Vice Chairman of General Atomics, and remarks by The Honorable Francis...

What I'm Thankful for: The eternal gift that is freedom I am most thankful for the eternal gift which is American liberty and universal religious freedom. I am also thankful to all of those who protect it on the battlefield and in the war of ideas. Nothing protects us more from the terror of militant Islamism than a citizenry empowered by the universal religious freedoms granted by our Constitution and Bill of Rights. I pray that soon far more Muslims will muster the moral courage to vocally, globally, and effectively articulate a preference for this system of liberty over one...

Islamism on Trial By M. Zuhdi Jasser The verdict in the federal prosecution against the Holy Land Foundation and many in its leadership was finally read by Judge Joe Fish this week after 19 days of jury deliberation by the Dallas jury. To listen to the press conferences and read the press releases of American Islamist organizations, one would think that the defendants were unanimously exonerated “with prejudice.” The Dallas Morning News reported that Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation Executive Director Mahdi Bray stated that “the government failure to get any convictions was evidence of the power of religious freedom.”...

What Ramadan Is Really About: Atonement and Renewal By M. Zuhdi Jasser In honor of our Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the ninth month in the Muslim lunar calendar, the U.S. Congress passed H.R. 635 on October 2, 2007. The bill was introduced by Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson and co-sponsored by thirty other House Democrats including Keith Ellison, Gregory Meeks and Dennis Kucinich. The legislation passed unanimously with a vote of 376-0. The legislation was met with effusive congratulatory remarks from CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations), MPAC (Muslim Public Affairs Council), and the State Department. CAIR has been working on...

Exclusive: Fascism Spares No One By M. Zuhdi Jasser The Family Security Foundation, Inc. August 10, 2007 Last month’s radical Islamist terror plot in the United Kingdom , dubbed the “Doctor Plot,” left many unable to fathom how physicians could have organized such barbarism. While a group of five physicians seemed to have plotted the London and Glasgow bombings, a group of 45 physicians targeted the United States . The medical profession, which is globally respected for its ethics, compassion, and selfless healing, did not temper the wanton violence and hatred in these monsters. Many have commented since, with various...

PBS Affiliates to air ABG Film's- "ISLAM V. ISLAMISTS: VOICES FROM THE MUSLIM CENTER with follow-up Panel Discussion" August 9, 2007 AIFD Press Release Phoenix, Arizona: 1. AIFD Calls your attention to the official release and national distribution by Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) of Islam v. Islamists: Voices from the Muslim Center with a follow-up discussion. This documentary was set to be part of the high-profile Corporation of Public Broadcasting (CPB) Crossroads Program released in April 2007 before CPB reviewers refused to allow its release. Now through an agreement reached between CPB and ABG Films, Inc. and OPB, the film...

Accommodation as an Islamist Political Instrument By M. Zuhdi Jasser The Family Security Foundation, Inc. July 27, 2007 Political Islam’s ideological battle fronts are many. They can include the obvious like the liberation of Iraq or the rampant domestic and foreign policy speeches given under the guise of Friday sermons in mosques around America . However, an ideological front which is gaining traction among Islamists is that of religious accommodations (or demands) in our free society. Every week, it seems we are seeing new iterations of the same issue. Soon we must all ask -- at what point do Muslim...

 Why is Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim in the U.S. Congress, disgracefully spreading extremist propaganda and aligning himself with controversial Islamist groups?  FSM Contributing Editor Zuhdi Jasser demonstrates why Ellison must be censured by the U.S. Congress.     Most American Muslim activists this past month were trying to grapple with the reality of the “Doctor Plot” out of the United Kingdom. While most Americans are finally waking up to the fact that radical Islamism and its fascism knows no boundaries to economic or educational status, Congressman Keith Ellison has not found the time to seriously address radical Islamism...

Islamism, not Islam is the Problem By M. Zuhdi Jasser Most of the attention, scholarship, and punditry in the United States given towards Islam and Muslims since 9-11 have focused upon problems with comparatively little attention toward solutions. Understandably motivated by a need to improve security and understand the enemy, American curiosity about Islam, Islamism, and militant Islamism continues to grow. Yet, comparatively American Muslims have offered few solutions except for the few rare voices of Muslim moderation (anti-Islamism) across America, Canada, and Europe. At times there is only a binary choice in the public ether between the voices who...

Moderate Muslim voices silenced PBS won't show 'Islam vs. Islamists,' but you should see it, says ROD DREHER May 13, 2007 I've asked myself a thousand times since 9/11: Where are all the moderate Muslims? We're assured that there's a silent majority of Muslims who want nothing to do with the jumped-up jihadists. But those voices are few and far between. Here's the good news: The makers of the PBS-commissioned documentary Islam vs. Islamists: Voices from the Center found some outspoken moderate Muslims and profiled them and their astonishing courage. The film shows these men mounting a lonely resistance against...

The Mainstream Media: Islamist Facilitators In this riveting, damning exposé by FSM Contributing Editor M. Zuhdi Jasser, the mainstream media is identified as one of the most significant reasons why moderate Muslim voices are utterly silenced in America. You won’t want to take this outrage sitting down! The PBS censorship of Islam vs. Islamists highlights one of the major obstacles to hearing the Moderate Muslim Voice By M. Zuhdi Jasser April 19, 2007 Dennis Wagner of the Arizona Republic broke the story on April 10, 2007 about PBS’s censorship of the documentary, Islam vs. Islamists from its America at a...

After he spoke out against CAIR and the 6 flying imams naming 'John Doe' passengers as defendants in a lawsuit because they reported suspicious behaviors, Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser has been pulled from a PBS series. The producer says PBS pulled the segment entitled Islam vs. Islamists for political reasons. Syndicated talk-radio host Mark Levin interviewed Dr. Jasser and asked him what happened: The producers had seen my work and followed our travails with the moderates here, with what we're doing against the fundamentalists locally. They came and spent the week with me and looked at all of our activities,...

Since I last wrote in December about our now infamous local Phoenix "political" imams, the story has developed even further. It is now entering the court system as the next venue for the victimization agenda. While in November I was chagrined by the imams" choice to trumpet to the public their own victimization in the name of all Muslims, now with the filing of their lawsuit, I found it necessary that Muslims who are not of like mind must push back publicly and break down this false assumption of a monolithic American Muslim community. The inappropriateness I expressed about the...

Three cheers — no, three million cheers — for Zuhdi Jasser, a practicing doctor and retired Navy Lieutenant Commander, who is trying to catalyze fellow moderate Muslims into standing up against the jihadists and their cheerleaders. He has written this important article at FamilySecurityMatters.org denouncing CAIR and the lawsuit it is pushing on behalf of the infamous Flying Imams against US Airways and the "John Doe" passengers who had the temerity to be frightened and speak out. Read it all. Here is one excerpt of the words we've been longing to hear from Muslim moderates: Make no mistake. This lawsuit...

Dr. Zuhdi Jasser of Phoenix was deeply troubled after 9-11. A Muslim, he saw his faith threatened by extremists seeking to hijack it for political ends. "Islam is a spiritual path," he says. "The mixture of politics and religion is toxic to our faith." In 2003, Jasser founded the American Islamic Forum for Democracy with several like-minded Arizona Muslims. "We are pro-Islam and anti-Islamist," he says. In Jasser's view, Islamists believe that governments should incorporate Islamic law, and that spiritual leaders should also be political leaders. Though he is well-known in Arizona, he has not been visible outside the state....

Defeating radical Islam Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist March 21, 2007 INTIMIDATING critics through trumped-up litigation and claims of "discrimination" is something of the house specialty at the Council on American-Islamic Relations. No surprise, then, that CAIR is involved in the lawsuit filed against US Airways by six imams who were kicked off a Minneapolis-Phoenix flight after their disruptive behavior alarmed other passengers. (Excerpt) What the release didn't mention, but the Minneapolis Star-Tribune's Katherine Kersten discovered in the complaint, is that CAIR and the imams are also targeting as-yet unnamed "John Does" -- the "passengers (Excerpt) "The imams' attempt to bully...

Treason by any other Name By M. Zuhdi Jasser [FSM Contributing Editor M. Zuhdi Jasser, a Muslim, believes that if Petty Officer Hassan Abujihaad, also a Muslim and recently arrested for supporting terrorism, is convicted, he should suffer the utmost in punishment. But since Abujihaad’s arrest, why have Islamist organizations like CAIR and MAS been silent? ] Our local Arzona Republic and the national mainstream media widely reported March 8 about the March 7, 2007 arrest here in Phoenix, Arizona, of Hassan Abujihaad, formerly Paul Hall, “for taking part in a conspiracy to kill military personnel by supplying terror suspects...

Lawyers and a Muslim group say they will defend at no cost airline passengers caught up in a lawsuit between a group of imams and U.S. Airways if the passengers are named as "John Does" and sued for reporting suspicious behavior that got the Muslim clerics booted from a November flight. The six imams are suing the airline, Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Airports Commission, and the unnamed "John Does" to be named later, for discrimination, saying they were removed from the flight for praying in the airport. Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, a Phoenix-area physician and director of American Islamic Forum for...

Israel National Radio - Tovia Singer interview with Dr. Zuhdi Jasser (Mar. 13, 2007) Islamic Trojan Horse Threatens America "Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, an American Muslim and former U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander, reveals how the US government is being duped, through political correctness, into partnering with organizations which present themselves as being purely religious (Muslim) or ethnic (Arabic) but are actually solidly religio-political and Arab-political movements." Many of Dr. Jasser's articles have been posted on FR and can be found using keyword Jasser

Exclusive: Our Government's Dangerous Partnering With the Wrong Muslims M. Zuhdi Jasser Source: The Family Security Foundation, Inc. Date: February 23, 2007 Our government is being duped, through political correctness, into partnering with organizations which present themselves as being purely religious (Muslim) or ethnic (Arabic) but are actually solidly religio-political and Arab-political movements. FSM Contributing Editor M. Zuhdi Jasser explains the dangers inherent in this short-sighted policy. Our Government's Dangerous Partnering With the Wrong Muslims By M. Zuhdi Jasser In the past few months we have seen an unusual increase in publicity concerning the interactions of the American Muslim “activist”...

Exclusive: Why Are American Muslims Not Enlisting in Our Military? Zuhdi Jasser The Family Security Foundation, Inc. February 9, 2007 In a refreshing Muslim voice not often heard, FSM Contributing Editor M. Zuhdi Jasser challenges the stereotypical Muslim response to the fact that there are few Muslim soldiers in the U.S. military. Where are the moderate Muslim voices you ask? Read one right here. Why Are American Muslims Not Enlisting in Our Military? By Zuhdi Jasser A story out of Reuters this week, carried by the mainstream media (MSM), and then soon thereafter distributed widely by American Islamist organizations makes...

US debates accommodation of Muslim women's modesty AFP October 8, 2006 DEARBORN, Michigan, USA -- For some women, it can be a little creepy to have men watch them exercise at the gym. For Ammerah Saidi, it's a violation of her religious beliefs as a Muslim. So when her local gym started letting men work out on days that had previously been reserved for women only, Saidi complained. At first, the management at the suburban Detroit Fitness USA balked at concerns that the women could be observed from the small area where men were allowed to exercise. But after Saidi...

Part three in a three-part series. Islamists fear any real ideological battle within Islam against Islamism and its clerics. To that end, they seek the removal of American and Western involvement from Muslim majority countries. Americanism is founded upon an anti-theocratic ideology that is a global ideological threat to Islamism. "Jeffersonian" Muslims who depart from Islamism are similarly the greatest threat to the influence of Islamists within the Muslim community. Disengage Islamism from Muslims and Americanism will flourish among Muslims. With the deconstruction of Islamism (the ends), Islamist terror (the means) has no cause. Muslim activists should find it commonplace...

Muslims in the crosshairs By M.Zuhdi Jasser August 3, 2006 Part two in a three-part series. So far the ideological battle against political Islam has proven to be a fight few Muslims want to participate in. It has taken five years since September 11 for conventional wisdom to even begin to attempt to understand "moderate" Muslims let alone engage their ideology. Far more important than a debate over who or what defines a moderate is our need in the United States to focus discussions upon the ideology of Islamism and political Islam. If radical Islamist terrorism is a means to...

Faux 'moderate' Islamists By M. Zuhdi Jasser August 2, 2006 Part one in a three-part series. It is almost five years since September 11, one year since the July 7 attacks in Britain and just months after the arrests of alleged members of a Toronto terrorist cell. But the intellectual machinery of the United States has not legitimately engaged the Muslim American community and its leadership in an ideological debate about Islamism. Stories about Muslims and Islam are now ubiquitous in the mainstream media. Yet rarely is there any substantive discussion with American Muslims about the ideology of Islamism or...

The National Debate over Islamism is Long Overdue M. Zuhdi Jasser Chairman, American Islamic Forum for Democracy In Wednesday’s Washington Times, it was refreshing to see Tony Blankley lead the way in demanding that the American public start asking more questions about Islamism. He asks the questions which very few are asking and yet seems so obvious after so long into this war. The unrelenting series of Islamist terrorist actions around the world could not be disconnected groups when they all share the same Islamist ideological goals. Hezbullah and its recent prelude to war against Israel cannot be “Just another...

They just don't get it April 2, 2006 M. Zuhdi Jasser American Islamic Forum for Democracy Ibrahim Hooper of CAIR rushed in his letter to the editor on March 31, 2006 to a list of programs and statements of condemnation which his organization has made in the recent past concerning terrorism and hate. He seems to either conveniently or carelessly miss the entire point of my March 30, 2006 column, Cancer in its Midst in the Washington Times. Let me make my points more direct. CAIR (Council for American-Islamic Relations) and other Muslim organizations gain their public notoriety as supposed...

'Cancer in its midst' By M. Zuhdi Jasser Published March 30, 2006 During the dark days of our Revolution, Thomas Paine wrote, "That these are the times, that try men's souls." As an American Muslim, I feel the sentiment of these words like a red-hot brand on my brain. I have watched horrified as assassins have read out the words from my Holy Koran before slitting the throats of some poor innocent souls. To my non-comprehending eyes, I have seen mothers proudly support their sons' accomplishment of blowing up innocent people as they eat or travel. It shatters some part...

E-mail Author Send to a Friend Version February 10, 2006, 9:30 a.m. Dreams & Realities Cartoon problems. By M. Zuhdi Jasser It seems the issue of cartoons is much in the news these days. As a devout moderate Muslim, I was just recently portrayed in the local Muslim newspaper, Arizona Muslim Voice, as a ravenous dog — on the leash of our state newspaper, and devouring an imam. Despite the fact that being portrayed as a dog is profoundly offensive if not downright hateful in our Middle Eastern culture, there was hardly a ripple of outrage in the local...

The real Muslim moderates By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist | August 18, 2005 Last of two parts FOR YEARS, Muslims have been criticized for their seeming complacency about Islamic terrorism. Time and again, Islamist radicals have committed some savagery, and time and again non-Muslims have wondered why there was no outcry of condemnation from the Islamic world. Let a fictional TV show depict Muslims unflatteringly, and Muslim spokesmen thunder in outrage. Where is that outrage when real atrocities are being carried out by killers professing Islam? Good news: Since 9/11 a growing number of Muslim moderates have been speaking out....

Waking Up to 'Islamo-Fascism' All Muslims must play a role in stopping the violence being done in the name of our faith. By M. Zuhdi Jasser As we all began digesting the news of last week's terrorist attack, most of America's Muslim organizations issued what has become a predictable, yet empty, round of condemnations. Articulated in press releases, these rote statements are not backed up with sincere attempts to acknowledge and fix the problems within Islam. Listening to these empty pronouncements, I can't help but ask: Where is our Muslim responsibility--our duty--to protect the world from the actions of our...

A new group of American Muslims has declared itself committed to moderation, patriotism, and peaceful coexistence with non-Muslims. It's called the Center for Islamic Pluralism, an organization made up of both American-born and immigrant Muslims, lifelong Muslims and converts. If this organization succeeds in being what it has set out to be, it will fill a vacuum many Americans have felt keenly since 9/11: it will be a real counterweight in the Islamic community to jihadist radicalism and fanaticism. In its inaugural press release the CIP declared its intention to "promote moderate Islam in the U.S. and globally; educate the...

Struggle for the soul of Islam Mar. 5, 2005 MEDIA HAS ROLE M. Zuhdi Jasser/ Phoenix physician; chairman, American Islamic Forum for Democracy What a time in history for the Middle East! Each nation is now slowly experiencing only a prelude to their new chapters in history unfolding before all of our very eyes. The exact details yet to be revealed; no one can deny that change is afoot and President Bush's axiom of "freedom being on the march" is right on the money. Iraq held its elections. The Palestinians and Egyptians held or soon will hold their own. The...

Editor's note: Readers may also be interested in Moderate Islam or Fata Morgana? and freemuslims.org Speaks Out.There is good news to report: The idea that "militant Islam is the problem, moderate Islam is the solution" is finding greater acceptance over time. But there is also bad news, namely growing confusion over who really is a moderate Muslim. This means that the ideological side of the war on terror is making some, but only limited, progress.The good news: Anti-Islamist Muslims have found their voice since September 11. Their numbers include distinguished academics such as Azar Nafisi (Johns Hopkins), Ahmed al-Rahim (formerly...

Mideast meets Midwest POLITICS: Middle Easterners form a large voting bloc in Midwest swing states, and many have reason to support the war on terror | by Priya Abraham Some of the scenes could have been Republican National Convention flashbacks: raucous applause for the topple of Saddam Hussein and chants of "Four more years!" But in this case, the 800 or so Americans cheering President George Bush's foreign policy were of Middle Eastern descent—a constituency that many think turned on him after 9/11. The outsized gathering at Washington's Wardman Park Marriott Hotel earlier this month pledged its support for democratic...

Muslims Must Lead War on Terror Oct. 19, 2004 AND RISE UP SOON M. Zuhdi Jasser, MD chairman, American Islamic Forum for Democracy Yesterday's headlines rang with the not-so-profound revelation that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had now declared his allegiance to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida. The world heard about al-Zarqawi's call for "unity against the enemies of Islam". He reported communicating with bin Laden and joining the strategy of al-Qaida with that of his own fascist "Tawhid and Jihad." The real question is who actually believes this to be a new revelation? This coverage yesterday appears to lend credence to...

Immigrants raise voices for democracy Oct. 10, 2004 Since World War II, nearly every Middle Eastern nation has been under the smothering vise of ruthless tyrants, autocrats and monarchs. Only since 9/11 has American foreign policy begun to show it understands there is a definite connection between Middle Eastern despotism and Islamo-fascist terrorism. Yet, the ones most familiar with these systemic human rights abuses in the Middle East have been silent for years. Those Americans who escaped Middle Eastern tyranny during the last 40 years have until now been incomprehensibly silent. Sept. 11, 2001 woke up America to the dangers...

A Democratic Middle East? By Nir Boms and Erick Stackelbeck FrontPageMagazine.com | October 4, 2004 On Oct. 1, over 30 Middle Eastern American groups gathered at the Wardman Park Marriott Hotel in Washington, D.C., to discuss something that is only whispered about in their native lands: freedom. The Middle Eastern American Convention for Freedom and Democracy, a conference organized by the Washington-based Center for Freedom in the Middle East along with a number of Middle Eastern American pro-democracy groups, had hundreds of participants representing a wide range of countries, ethnicities and religions. The participants challenged the conventional wisdom about a...