زهدي جاسر، أومحمد زهدي جاسر، هوطبيب أمريكي من أصل سوري، متخصص في الأمراض الباطنة وطب القلب النووي، مقيم في فينكس، أريزونا. وقد كان جاسر ليوتنانت كوماندر في البحرية الأمريكية حيث خدم كطبيب باطني في مخط الطبيب المناوب في الكونگرس الأمريكي. وفي 2003، مع مجموعة من المسلمين الأمريكان أسس جاسر المنتدى الإسلامي الأمريكي للديمقراطية ومقرها في فينكس، أريزونا.

وهومساهم في وسائل الإعلام الوطني والعالمي في قضية الإسلام السياسي أوالإسلاموية وضيف متواتر في قناة فوكس الإخبارية، CNN, CBS، وMSNBC. كما ساهم بمنطقات في أريزونا رپبلك،دالاس مورننگ نيوز،النيويورك پوست،وال ستريت جرنالوواشنطن تايمز.

كما أدلى بشهادته أمام لجنة الأمن الداخلي بمجلس النواب الأمريكي حول مدى انتشار التطرف في مجتمع المسلمين الأمريكان ورد عمل ذلك المجتمع” فيعشرة مارس 2011. وكذلك أمام اللجنة الفرعية القضائية حول الدستور بمجلس النواب الأمريكي في 24 يونيو2011 حول القانون المقترح HR 963 المسمى "قانون إذا رأيت شيئاً، قل لنا".

حياته

جاسر ابن لعائلة سورية هاجرت للولايات المتحدة في الستينيات. نشأ على الدين الإسلامي، الممضى السني. كان والده طبيب قلب ووالدته صيدلانية.

التحق بجامعة وسكنسن-ميلووكي، حصل على بكالوريوس العلوم عام 1988، ثم التحق بكلية طب وسكنسن حيث كان زميل قوات بحرية، وحصل منها على شهادة الدكتوراه عام 1992. عمل في البحرية الأمريكية 11 عام، حصل على وسام الخدمة بجدارة ووصل لرتبة لواء عام 1999. تكليفاته كان بينها العمل كطبيب باطني في الكونگرس الأمريكي، رئيس القسم الطبي على متن USS El Paso, وكبير النواب المقيمين في مستشفى البحرية في بتسدا. وقد انتقل إلى أريزونا بعد خروجه من سلاح البحرية، ليأخذ جزءاً من عيادة أبيه.

وهوالطبيب الشخصي لJ.D. Hayworth الذي أصبح من سقمى جاسر عندما كان يعمل في الكونگرس. جاسر جمهوري محافظ، مؤيد للحربين في العراق وأفغانستان. وهومقيم في سكوتسديل، أريزونا، مع زوجته وثلاث أطفال، يربيهم مسلمين.

آراءه في الإسلام

في ذكرى هجمات 11 سبتمبر عام 2010، صرح جاسر بأن مسقط برجي التجارة العالمي هوالمكان الوحيد في أمريكا الذي لا ينبغي علي المسلمين حتى يهتموا فيه بتعريف الأمريكيين عن الاسلام واظهار الجانب الجيد للمسلمين لأن المسقط أمريكي بامتياز وبدلا من ذلك فان علي المسلمين حتى يتولوا مسئولياتهم في لقاءة الايديولوجية المتطرفة ونقل المسجد لمكان آخر أوبناء متحف أوأي تذكار لضحايا 11 سبتمبر لا علاقة له بالدين.

ويصف جاسر نفسه بأنه مسلم ورع. كما أنه مدافع عن إسرائيل ويؤمن بأن الإسلام يحتوي على عقائد متعالية وانفصالية. وقد نطق أنه ليس بخبير في لغة القرآن، أوفي الشريعة الإسلامية"، ولكنه يفهم المبادئ العامة والقواعد التي يقوم عليها الدين. After attending Phoenix-area mosques for several years, he became disappointed that politics was being discussed from the mosque pulpits and was especially concerned about sermons that criticized U.S. government policies and portrayed Muslims as victims. Jasser began criticizing American Muslim organizations including: the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Islamic Society of North America, the North American Imams Federation, the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America, Muslim Students' Association, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the Muslim American Society, the Islamic Circle of North America, and the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, because he sees them as Islamist, meaning they support a mixing of Islam and politics. وهوشديد الانتقاد لـ CAIR, a Muslim-American civil rights group, which according to Jasser, is focused on "victimology" and does not adequately condemn the goals of the terrorist groups. A CAIR official has responded, "With these people, nothing we would do would satisfy them".

وينشط جاسر في الحوار بين الأديان، بعضويته في مجلس ادارة حركة الحوار بين الأديان في أريزونا; ساعد في تأسيس أبناء ابراهيم، وهي مجموعة محادثة يهودي-مسلم، في عام 2000، وفرع بذور السلام في 2003.

Jasser has said that he and his family have helped build a number of small mosques in different cities using locally-raised funds, and at times encountering, but always overcoming local opposition. In 2010, Jasser strongly opposed the building of the Park51 project, a 13-story Islamic community center and mosque two blocks from the World Trade Center site, which is also known as Ground Zero. He said he was concerned that the funding of the $100 million project might be coming from foreign, Islamist sources, and also said: "Ground Zero is purely about being American. It can never be about being Muslim." After President Obama defended the constitutional right of Muslims in America to build a mosque and community center on private property, but not the wisdom of its location, Jasser criticized Obama for "engaging in passive aggressive meddling".

Jasser believes acts of Islamic terrorism are rooted in an ideology he calls "political Islamism", or "political Islam". He has said that the goal of political Islam is to create an Islamic state in America under sharia law. He believes the U.S. needs a "coordinated existential strategy" to combat the ideology, and that this has been dangerously lacking, with the result that the number of home-grown terrorists is increasing. He has expressed the opinion that the 2009 Christmas Day attempted airplane bombing, the Fort Hood shooting and the 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt have not prodded the United States into the appropriate action, but rather, have resulted in politically correct denial by U.S. government authorities, and inaction by most American Muslims. He believes that even the Bush administration took inadequate measures against Islamism in America. He says the U.S. needs to provide alternatives for Muslim youth and promote reformist groups. In his television appearances, Jasser has claimed that three to five percent of U.S. Muslims are militant and 30 to 40 percent do not believe in separation of mosque and state.

He has said Muslims need to be held to a litmus test to see whether they recognize Israel as a state, specifically condemn groups such as Hamas and Al Qaeda, and governments such as the Saudi and Syrian dictatorships. "If they don't [...] then you have to wonder where their allegiances are," said Jasser. He believes Muslim leaders should renounce Islamic scriptures that promote discrimination against women and non-Muslims and reject a role for Islam in government.

المنتدى الأمريكي الإسلامي للديمقراطية

Jasser founded the non-profit المنتدى الأمريكي الإسلامي للديمقراطية (AIFD) in 2003 with the goal of demonstrating the compatibility of Islam with democracy and American values. The group has a membership of about 1,500, about 13 percent of whom are Muslims. Jasser is the group's president and chief spokesperson.The AIFD supports 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.

الظهور الإعلامي

Jasser is a regular contributor to U.S. national media, particularly conservative outlets, and has been a frequent guest on the Glenn Beck show since 2007 when it was on CNN. He has also appeared on the FOX News Channel shows of Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly, and on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews. He has published opinion columns in various newspapers and internet sites such as FOXNews.com, the New York Post, and the New York Daily News..

According to The Washington Post, Jasser's group has "made two controversial films about the dangers of radical Islam". Jasser was featured in the PBS film Islam v Islamists. He was the main narrator in the Clarion Fund film, The Third Jihad, which claims that Muslim radicals have infiltrated the U.S. in order to overthrow the government and establish an Islamic state. The claims of stealth jihad and cultural jihad are based on a single document written by a member of the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1990s that was used in a successful U.S. prosecution of an Islamic charity for laundering money to Hamas. According to The New Republic the producer of the film has ties to the Israeli settlement movement. Although Jasser has said he does not agree with everything in the film, he supports the overall message. Jasser also appeared in the 2010 Newt Gingrich film, America At Risk: The War With No Name, a production of Citizens United. The film claims there is a global movement to impose sharia law on all aspects of society and has been described as "anti-Obama" by The Nation.

In March 2011, Jasser will be appearing as a star witness at the first of a series of hearings being conducted by Republican U.S. Representative Peter King, (R-NY), into domestic terrorism and the threat posed by homegrown Muslim radicals. Of his testimony, Jasser has said, "Americans need to see that there is an anti-Islamist movement within the Muslim community."

جوائز وتكريمات

Jasser practices internal medicine and nuclear cardiology in Phoenix. He served as the President of the Arizona Medical Association until June 2007, and has been on the Maricopa County Board of Health since 2005. In 2007, he formed a statewide Disaster Preparedness Task Force for physicians. He chairs a bioethics committee and teaches nuclear cardiology in Phoenix.

He was honored in October 2007 by Frank Gaffney's Center for Security Policy as a "Defender of the Home Front" for his anti-Islamist activism. In January 2008 he was presented with the 2007 Director’s Community Leadership Award by the Phoenix office of the FBI.

انظر أيضا

• Brigitte Gabriel
• وليد شعيبات

المصادر

الهامش

وصلات خارجية

• "The Third Jihad". Movie website.
• Nick Carey (April 16, 2010). "Special Report: U.S. shifts gears to tackle homespun terrorism". Reuters.com. Reuters. Retrieved March 9, 2011.