A Muslim Reformer Speaks Out About His Battle Against Islamism And PC (Zuhdi Jasser)

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A Muslim Reformer Speaks Out About His Battle Against Islamism And PC

Muslims cannot reform their interpretations of Islam under the boots of regimes that manifest interpretations of Islam through blasphemy, apostasy, and treason laws.’

By Steve Postal
January 30, 2017

Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser stands at the forefront of the Muslim Reform Movement (MRM), which celebrated its first anniversary on December 4, 2016. He and representatives from fourteen other Muslim reform groups formed the MRM, which held its inaugural press conference on December 5, 2015.

There, they announced their two-page declaration of principles that discusses counterterrorism, human rights, and secular governance. In a nod to Martin Luther nailing his 99 theses to the door of the All Saint’s Church in Wittenberg, Germany in 1517, several MRM members then taped their principles to the door of the Islamic Center of Washington DC.

The following is an interview with Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, CEO of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) and co-founder of the MRM. Jasser is a physician and former U.S. Navy officer whose parents fled Syria. Jasser agreed to reflect on the MRM’s one-year anniversary, the current battle between reformists and Islamists, and the Syrian Civil War.
The Muslims Working to Reform Islam

Q (Postal): What is the MRM, and what are its main objectives?

A (Jasser): The Muslim Reform Movement is a coalition of diverse Muslim organizations and leaders. We wanted to articulate the versions of Islam that we knew and loved, and that were compatible with modernity. We determined that the clearest way to define ourselves was to create a simple “declaration” of principles and goals. The declaration is a firewall of principles that we as Westerners and “modern Muslims” who believe in freedom, liberty, and universal human rights would not compromise.

Continued: http://thefederalist.com/2017/01/30/muslim-reformer-speaks-battle-islamism-pc/

On Beck today as well; Zuhdi has no problem with the ban and suggested, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Pakistan should have been on the list of nations as well.

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Just think if this was newsworthy for the majority of media outlets.  As it is there exists a near total media blackout with regard to moderate Muslims.  The media only rolls out a token moderate from time to time to counter balance their stories about violet extremism.  If they occasionally project a story that says, "see, there are moderates too" the media can offer up these snapshots as proof of balanced reporting.

This is nothing new for the media, it has been going on for decades.  What's worse, they pick and choose which areas of the world they choose to highlight extremism and which areas they choose to highlight moderates.  Any country near Israel, for example, is populated by nearly 100% moderates.  This allows the media to always make out Israel as being the bad guy in the fight.

There never seems to be any middle ground for the media which disgusts me to no end.  They try to force us to chose sides.  You are either a Muslim hater or a Muslim lover, there is no middle ground.  Just as with Bush and Obama, you must be all in on one side or the other.  It's a binary choice.  For a citizen to say, "I liked some of Bush's policies but not others" is absolute heresy to the media.