M. Zuhdi Jasser, M.D. is the Founder and President of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) and is the author of A Battle for the Soul of Islam: An American Muslim Patriot’s Fight to Save His Faith (Simon & Schuster, June 2012). On March 20, 2012, Dr. Jasser was appointed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) where he served as Commissioner and Vice-Chair until May 2016.

Jasser is a first-generation American Muslim, whose parents fled the oppressive Baath regime of Syria in the mid-1960’s for American freedom. He is a devout Muslim with strong ties to the American Muslim community having helped lead mosques in Wisconsin, Arkansas, Virginia, and Arizona.

In the wake of the 9/11 attacks on the United States, Jasser and a group of American Muslims, founded AIFD as a Muslim led organization striving to addresses the root cause of the domestic and international threat of radical Islamist terrorism while promoting Muslim voices for liberty and freedom through the separation of mosque and state. In 2008, Dr. Jasser worked with Clarion to narrate a film called “The Third Jihad” a Clarion Project film, that explores the rise of Islamist extremism in America.