{"id":5698,"date":"2017-03-13T06:17:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T06:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/03\/13\/zuhdi-jasser\/"},"modified":"2017-03-13T06:17:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T06:17:20","slug":"zuhdi-jasser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/03\/13\/zuhdi-jasser\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuhdi Jasser"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jasser<\/a>Saturday morning I heard for the third time Dr. Jasser speak. One of the questions I put to him was: "How many American mosques foment political or Sharia-based Islam?"  He praised the precision and relevance of my question, preferring it to the question, "How many American mosques foment terrorism?" Jasser's answer to my question was 80%.  To which my response was, "And there you have the problem." Jasser agreed.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was pleased to hear that Jasser supports Trump (not without reservations) and opposes the Left's mendacious phrase "Muslim ban" in connection with Trump's recent executive orders anent a moratorium on immigration from six Muslim countries.   (Note to lefties: moratoria are by definition temporary.) He thinks Saudi Arabia and others should have been on the list.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was also pleased to hear Jasser oppose the Left's identity politics. He mentioned Black Lives Matter in this connection.<\/span><\/p>\n

The good doctor is for plain talk as against the obfuscatory rhetoric of Obama and Hillary: not 'violent extremism' but 'violent Islamism.'  He described the Egyptian Brotherhood as a terror group.  If I heard right, 20% of Syrian refugees are sympathetic to ISIS.<\/span><\/p>\n

For much more about Dr. Jasser, see my tribute to him from last year, Zuhdi Jasser, Profile in Civil Courage<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

As for civil courage<\/a>, I have been praised for my 'guts' in saying some of the things I say on this weblog. But my civil courage is as nothing compared to his.  <\/span><\/p>\n

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Saturday morning I heard for the third time Dr. Jasser speak. One of the questions I put to him was: "How many American mosques foment political or Sharia-based Islam?"  He praised the precision and relevance of my question, preferring it to the question, "How many American mosques foment terrorism?" Jasser's answer to my question was … Continue reading “Zuhdi Jasser”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamism","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}