Zuhdi JasserM. Zuhdi Jasser, M.D., is the son of Syrian political refugees from 1966. Raised in the Midwest, a devout American Muslim, Dr. Jasser is a physician, a former U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander, and President and founder of the American Islamic Forum forDemocracy (AIFD). AIFD is a Phoenix based counter-Islamism think tank founded in the wake of 9-11. In 2015, he also co-founded the Muslim Reform Movement (MRM). Appointed by the U.S. Senate, he served as Vice-Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) from 2012-16. Dr. Jasser is an internationally recognized expert on Islamism (political Islam). movements and the Muslim Brotherhood's networks. Their propaganda vis-à-vis Al Jazeera and other associated global Islamist media outlets and Qatari-purchased think tanks and universities have further operationalized and weaponized the Islamist movement.separation of religion and state, religious pluralism, equality of the sexes, the unconditional recognition of Israel, and the creation of an independent Palestine on the current 'occupied territories. The organization rejects terrorism and any justification for it. Read More Read Less