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Zuhdi Jasser’s assistant attended Garland jihad shooters’ mosque in Phoenix

Mar 15, 2017 12:19 pm By Robert Spencer

Yesterday I cited professional moderate Muslim Zuhdi Jasser’s endorsement of pro-Sharia Islamic supremacist Alija Izetbegovic as an example of the problematic aspects of the entire moderate Muslim enterprise. Here is more. At Jasser’s American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) website, the “Our Team” page contains biographies of two people: Jasser himself and Courtney Lonergan, AIFD’s “Community Outreach Coordinator.” (Demonstrating yet again Jasser’s capacity for sonorous gobbledegook that he displayed in such abundance on his Blaze show denouncing me and others as “alt-jihadists,” we’re told that “Courtney is an enthusiastic and compelling participatory facilitator who engages the diverse perspectives of her stakeholders in meaningful dialogue to elicit inspired action and thoughtful working groups.” Good participatory facilitators are hard to come by these days, much less enthusiastic and compelling ones.)

AIFD’s Community Outreach Coordinator is or was a member of the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix, the mosque attended by the jihad terrorists who attacked our American Freedom Defense Initiative free speech event in Garland, Texas on May 3, 2015. And according to Lonergan herself, they were acting upon teachings they heard in the mosque. Pamela Geller wrote at Breitbart in July 2015: “And the jihadis who tried to commit mass murder last May at our free speech event in Garland, Texas, Ibrahim (formerly Elton) Simpson and Nadir Soofi, were members of the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix. Simpson’s friend Courtney Lonergan remembers, according to the Arizona Republic, that “Simpson would never waver from the teachings he picked up in the mosque and elsewhere.” Lonergan said: “He was one of those guys who would sleep at the mosque. The fact that he felt personally insulted by somebody drawing a picture had to come from the ideological rhetoric coming out of the mosque.”

That Arizona Republic article also notes that Lonergan “met Simpson at that mosque about 10 years ago.” Her bio at the AIFD site doesn’t say when she started working for Jasser. Nonetheless, I’ve been harshly criticized (and dubbed a “hate-group leader” by the hard-Left Southern Poverty Law Center) for saying that there was no distinction in Muslim communities between “moderates” and “extremists,” which has been represented as my saying that all Muslims were terrorists, when obviously I meant that “moderates” in mosques were not reporting or expelling the “extremists.” This is proof of that fact: Lonergan, who is a “moderate Muslim” herself and works for the “moderate” Jasser, was well acquainted with the “extremist” Simpson and the teachings of mosque. She didn’t say anything to the Arizona Republic about trying to get Simpson expelled from the mosque for his “extremism.” Wouldn’t it be a strong sign that Jasser’s “Islamic reform” had a real chance of succeeding if mosques were acting strongly against would-be jihad murderers such as Ibrahim Simpson, and if Islamic Community Center of Phoenix mosquegoers were rejecting the mosque teachings that led to the Garland jihad attack?

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Filed Under: American Freedom Defense Initiative, American jihadis, Featured, free speech, Jihad in the U.S., Moderate Muslims, mosques, Muhammad cartoons Tagged With: American Islamic Forum for Democracy, Courtney Lonergan, Ibrahim Simpson, Islamic Community Center of Phoenix, Zuhdi Jasser


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  1. john spielman says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 12:45 pm

    what’s the old saying – ” a radical muslim will cut off your head for being an unbeliever who opposes islam, while a ” moderate” muslim will stand by and nod in approval!

  2. Voytek Gagalka says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 1:05 pm

    All belonging to the same Ummah, they same universal global Muslim “community.” They can’t be “moderate” because they don’t rule that community; they don’t have even moderate influence over it, none at all. The only way they can prove to be “moderates” is by LEAVING that Ummah once and for all. In any case, they should not be scared of committing “apostasy”: Being “hypocrite” (their very current state) is also punishable by death under sharia.

    • mortimer says

      Mar 15, 2017 at 5:08 pm

      Mohammed commands the killing of apostates, and promises eternal rewards for doing so:

      “When I relate to you the words of Mohammed, by Allah, I would rather die than bear false witness to his teachings. However, if I should say something unrelated to the prophet, then it might very well be a lie so that I might deceive my enemy. Without question, I heard Mohammed say, “In the final days before Redemption there will emerge groups of foolish youths who will say all the right things but their faith will go no further than their mouths and will flee from their religion like an arrow. So, kill the apostates wherever you find them, because whoever does so will be rewarded on Judgment Day.” -Sahih Bukhari 9,84,64

      • Jeanette says

        Mar 16, 2017 at 2:52 pm

        Decent people have frequently been forced to endanger themselves by doing the decent thing.

        The Forefathers of America, for instance. None of them would have STOOD for their wives and female relatives being genitally mutilated and turned into slaves, even if something unpleasant was going to happen as a result of taking that stand.

  3. Terry Gain says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 1:26 pm

    I have never trusted Jasser. If he thinks Islam can be reformed he doesn’t understand Islam. I also don’t trust moderates. There is nothing moderate about Islam so they are either just practicing Taqiyya, or they are confused about Islam.

    • mortimer says

      Mar 15, 2017 at 5:16 pm

      Moderate Muslims are whistling past the graveyard. They are not insincere, but they are disdained by the orthodox as virtual apostates.

      The attempt to ‘liberalize’ Islam is imho just a method of fudgifying Islam. These quasi-apostates stand at the door of Islam half in and half out.

      • MEL GLICKMAN says

        Mar 16, 2017 at 6:55 am

        Being a “Moderate” Muslim is like being “a little bit pregnant”.

        • MEL GLICKMAN says

          Mar 16, 2017 at 6:57 am

          “In for a penny…in for a dollar” applies here.
          Islam should be BANNED from the West.

        • Jeanette says

          Mar 16, 2017 at 2:57 pm

          Mel,

          Islam should not only be banned from the West, but the UN should be forced to declare polygamy a crime against women and children. (Polygamy makes miserable the lives of the non-favorite wives and their children, and we can imagine, given the bloodlust of Muslims, that it often takes the lives of the non-favorite wives and/or their children.)

          That would severely slow the increase of the Muslims, considering their penchant for killing off their males.

          Currently, they can kill all but 25% of their male population and still produce at the current rate, because men are allowed 4 wives.

  4. Bosch Fawstin says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 1:44 pm

    As I put it on Facebook in my link to this story:

    WOW. Zuhdi Jasser calls Islam critics like Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller “alt-jihadists” and “Non-Muslim Jihadists”, yet his Muslim assistant was friends with and attended the same mosque with the Actual jihadist who tried to murder Islam critics Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller in Garland, Texas.

    • Terry Gain says

      Mar 15, 2017 at 2:32 pm

      Jasser’s use of the term Jihadist to describe Spencer shows Jasser as immoderately unhinged. Spencer has struck a nerve.

      • mortimer says

        Mar 15, 2017 at 5:17 pm

        Thank you, Bosch … and … well … GOOD GRIEF! Calling Robert Spencer a ‘jihadist’ is like calling Mohammed a ‘kafir’.

        • joydbrower says

          Mar 16, 2017 at 7:37 am

          VERY good!!

  5. Ah Clem says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 8:26 pm

    It’s important to have people who are spearheading innovative paradigms in the arena of best-of-breed stakeholder frameworks!

    • Norger says

      Mar 15, 2017 at 11:06 pm

      On a lighter note, great screen name Mr. Ah Clem. Haven’t heard that in several decades; back to the 60’s, right?

  6. medaber_emet says

    Mar 16, 2017 at 7:25 am

    Dear Robert
    please from now on you can call Zuhdi Jasser
    Zubi Jasser
    that is what he is a little stealth jihad scum
    hope you all know what zubi in arabic means

  7. Steve Klein says

    Mar 16, 2017 at 8:13 am

    Glenn Beck is promoting Dr. Jasser. “Sad.”

  8. A Former Zuhdi Fan says

    Mar 16, 2017 at 11:37 am

    This is compelling evidence written in a fair and honest style.

    Zuhdi’s objective is to separate the Islamic religious rituals from the political Islamic doctrines – in a nutshell.

    We all know that doctrinally to try and do what Zuhdi is doing is considered apostasy and will never get Ijma or consensus from the Islamic scholars at Al Azhar University in Cairo.

    Deep down we were all rooting for Zuhdi’s success that never came in the Muslim world. Zuhdi for his troubles was greeted with death threats and derision from the greater Muslim community.

    Because Zuhdi was under attack from his fellow Muslims as we were in the counter jihad movement, a common bond was formed. That bond has been weakening over the years and the jury was split on Zuhdi and his intentions.

    Zuhdi was splitting the counter jihad movement like the Hatfields and McCoys. For those of us who have always had a soft spot in our hearts for Zuhdi and his brand of Islam called Zuhdiism we feel somewhat betrayed by Zuhdi’s positions in the Glenn Beck interview.

    The one constant in this debate is that Islamic Doctrine can’t be innovated upon because the doors of Ijtihad were closed after the 3rd Caliph. Mohammad in his infinite wisdom taught us that anyone who places themselves above Allah and tries to innovate upon the Qur’an is committing shirk and the punishment is death.

    If a Muslim changes his faith he is an apostate and the punishment is death. If a Muslim badmouths Mohammad, Allah, or Islam that is called Blasphemy and punishable by death in Islamic countries. But every Muslim has the obligation to carry out the sentence in any location and his actions will ensure a place in Jannah for him and her.

    This is the Islam that Muhammad taught in the Qur’an and codified later in the Sahih Hadiths and the Shariah Islamiyya.

    Zuhdi has tipped the scales against him with his unfounded accusations and it saddens me to say it.

    God Bless America and God Bless Our Troops

    One Team One Fight

  9. steve brown says

    Mar 16, 2017 at 1:38 pm

    Is it possible for a any muslim that worships the ; Quran , Sharia Law, Muhammad as the greatest of all prophets to assimilate into non muslim nations without trying to forcefully conquer those non Sharia Law governed nations for their ; Quran, Prophet Muhammad and Sharia Law ?

    I do not think the above is possible because of the following basic rules of Sharia Law ::http://www.billionbibles.org/sharia/sharia-law.html

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 16, 2017 at 3:02 pm

      It is not possible.

      They need to be confined to the middle east, and the UN should be forced to list their herd breeding as a crime against humanity.

      Let’s slow down the incredible birthrate that allows them to produce so many jihadis.

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