Zuhdi Jasser
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 for Democracy (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). Zuhdi is the author of the book “A Battle for the Soul of Islam”. He hosts the podcast, Reform This! Find him on Twitter @DrZuhdiJasser
