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Former U.S. Navy lieutenant commander and devout Muslim discusses defeating political Islam

M. Zuhdi Jasser is the founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy. He dreams of a Muslim Counterterrorism Unit and speaks out on Islamophobia - (Dr Jasser Debate on the Ground Zero Mosque Video News

If anyone is to blame for the existence of the concept of Islamophobia, if it even exists, it is Muslims who have been unable to articulate a manifestation of Islam which is free of a political state which threatens the sovereignty of the states in which Muslims reside. I don’t subscribe to the existence of the notion of Islamophobia because I believe that we are in just the beginning of a global conflict of political ideologies (Islamism vs. Americanism), and the conflation of “Islamophobia” is intentional by Islamists to deflect Americans and the free world from the necessary debate of political ideologies.

From where I sit, as a devout anti-Islamist Muslim, the greatest challenge facing Muslims today is an intellectual victory over the Islamists - rescuing our faith from their clutches. We are also challenged to expose Islamists for their exploitation of victimology to isolate Muslims and divide America. We are also challenged by how to educate Muslims and non-Muslims about the existence of a separation between spiritual Islam and political Islam, and the need to protect spiritual Islam and defeat political Islam. The enablers of political Islam are many - both from within and without the Muslim community. Within we are suffocated by the control (financial and structural) of most mosques and organizations by Islamists, Wahabbists, and Salafists. Outside the Muslim community we are suffocated by enablers of Islamists including those in media, government, universities, and positions of influence. These are generally individuals who in the spirit of America’s First Amendment are not willing to question the political ideas of Islamists since it is cloaked in a faith despite the fact that that their ideology is an anathema to the principles of the American body politic. As Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson said in 1949, “the Constitutional Bill of Rights is not a suicide pact” and moreover, Islamism is not a protected faith practice, but rather a political ideology which threatens the sovereignty of the United States of America.

First, the majority of Muslims need to wake up from their denial and acknowledge that the root cause of Islamist terrorism is not external but internal — — political Islam and the false dreams of the Islamic state. Take away the Islamic mandate of their dreams and we defeat Islamist terror. Second, I believe that Muslims need to accept responsibility for the interpretation of our own faith and its exploitation by the Islamist agenda. Great thinkers have said that every people deserve the leaders they have. A great challenge is to convince the rank and file Muslim that Islamists don’t control the academia of our faith, and that every one of us has an equal right to reinterpret and practice our faith as we believe. The Salafists and other extremists have created a pseudo-clergy which controls the theology of Islam, and it is time for the common Muslim to displace these clerics — with institutions and a voice which drowns them out and defeats their exclusivist interpretation of Koran, Sunnah, and sharia (Islamic Jurisprudence).

While most studies have shown that those Muslims who believe in political Islam are a plurality and not necessarily a majority, certainly the remaining majority have been for the most part asleep. The remaining majority must not only be non-Islamists but they need to awaken from their slumber and become anti-Islamists. This the greatest challenge. AIFD and other anti-Islamist Muslims are working on how to wake up that silent majority of Muslims to their national responsibility and faith responsibility to separate the political from the spiritual within the Muslim community and take away the mantle of faith from the Islamist politicians.

Third, the defeat of political Islam will need a recalibration of the public Muslim consciousness away from victimology and apologia toward character, unrelenting moral courage, personal responsibility, and a steady focus on defeating the ideology of Islamism. After the embarrassment of the appointment of Essam Omeish by Governor Tim Kaine of Virginia, the AIFD promulgated an example of a set of standards, which could be used by public entities to vet Islamist Muslims from anti-Islamist Muslims.

Fourth, these challenges can only be met if Muslims begin to build institutions which build the foundations of an anti-Islamist mindset. These Institutions will need to do the hard work of modernizing the sharia, de-politicizing the faith, and de-collectivizing the Muslim community in the body politic, and deconstructing the whole concept of the Islamic state. This process is basically bringing Muslims through enlightenment and into modernity.

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