Reform This!

Dr. Zuhdi Jasser is a former US Navy Lieutenant Commander, a conservative, a patriot, a physician, and an American Muslim. A frequent television commentator on Blaze TV, Fox News Channel, CNN and MSNBC, he is also a co-founder of the Muslim Reform Movement. In this first of its kind podcast, Dr Jasser holds no punches as he breaches the many fault lines of the day between the West and Islamic communities. If you are looking for hope and have asked where are the courageous voices of pro-American Muslims, take a listen to Reform This!

Religion & Spirituality
Islam
Society & Culture
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What Independence Day Can Mean To Muslim Reform...
Don't miss this episode. After a week away, Zuhdi looks at what July 4th means to him as an American and also what Muslim reformers can learn from the battle for independence against Britain's theocrats. Dr. Jasser will take you through the transformations in Egypt in 2011 and 2013 and the lessons of the rise and fall of the Muslim Brotherhood. Recip Erdogan wins another election in Turkey this week and is becoming the most entrenched Sunni Islamist tyrant on the planet. Why we should pay attention and his oft-ignored connection to American Islamists. A UK imam gets a slap on the wrist for beating, molesting over 100 young children at his mosque. Last, the desert mirage of Saudi Arabia's MBS reforms. What should we watch for?
51 min
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Pay Attention To The Jihad & Especially To Turk...
This week Dr. Jasser looks at the premature reports by Saudi that ISIS is on the outs. As a movement, the organization may be but the ideology of Salafi-jihadism is stronger than it ever was. Also, Turkey’s Islamists led by Erdogan are more belligerent than ever. Time to boot them from NATO. Last, the US finally departs from the sham that is the UN Human Right Council.
44 min
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How to Win and Lose the Battle for Mosques in t...
This week Zuhdi takes you into the changes happening across Europe. Austria just decided to shutter 7 foreign-funded mosques and likely remove 60 imams from their country. Denmark just passed a law to outlaw the burqa and the niqab. Are these good ideas or bad ones? Listen in as Zuhdi shares his thoughts about the mixed bag these moves represent. Last, the vitriol against reformers gains momentum. Why? It must mean our reforms are making headway and the Islamist establishment is feeling threatened. 
45 min
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A Bridge To Iftar - 6/9/18
In this can't miss episode, Dr. Jasser talks about the first Ramadan Iftar Dinner at the Trump White House. The CAIR protests tell you all you'll ever need to know about their anti-American, and rather un-Islamic agenda. While foreign dignitaries were the only ones invited, who should the White House have invited to send a real Ramadan message? Shouldn't Twitter shut down Ayatollah Khamanei's twitter account for his vile anti-Semitism? What should Ariana Grande do to honor the lives lost in her "Dangerous Woman Tour" concern one year ago in Manchester, U.K.? Last Ben Rhodes weaves a fiction of Soviet proportions on President Obama's decision to do nothing over Assad's breach of his red-line. Zuhdi shares his thoughts on all this and more.
53 min
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The Future ‘Greatest Generation’ On their Comme...
In the spirit of the graduation season, Dr. Jasser shares his words of wisdom that he gave graduating high school seniors during their commencement ceremony this week. A window into the advice we give this century’s first high school grads that were born in this century and now the last high school grads born before 9-11 is very instructive about the hope and legacy of reform. Also after the flood of apologies from celebrities and politicians this year, Zuhdi reflects on what a real apology should mean to a moral generation.
44 min
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Beware of Fasting Muslims - 5/26/18
In this can't miss episode, Dr. Jasser looks at the bigger issue with Muslim faith practice and what’s behind the bizarre assertion by a Danish minister that fasting Muslims in Ramadan are a danger to society. Also what the Chinese tyranny does to deprogram Muslims into the Communist Party. And look who just won the latest Iraqi election. The perils of majoritocracy. 
44 min
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How To Get A Better ROI On That $3T We Spent On...
This week join Zuhdi as he spells out how ridiculous it is that we have spent almost $3 trillion since 9/11/01, yes, $3 trillion according to the latest study on the war(s) to combat terrorism and yet we have very little to show as any return on that investment in keeping us safer into the future. We certainly prevented many jihadi attacks but the whack-a-mole program cannot continue at this cost forever. It's time for a better return on investment. Support anti-Islamist, pro-liberty Muslim reformers.  Dr. Jasser also gives you a look at how much there was to learn from the patronizing responses by Abdul El-Sayed, in a gubernatorial debate in East Lansing, Michigan on May 10, 2018. Islamism matters. Last, how something as simple as a lunar calendar and determining the beginning of Ramadan can take a holy month of fasting and humility and spiritual unity for Muslims and turn it into a clinic in the divide between East (Islamism) and West (modernity).
43 min
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Bye Bye Iran Deal, Hello Syria Policy - 5/12/18
This week Dr. Jasser gives you the low down on why the U. S. exit from the Iran deal is good for American security, for our allies, for Iranian citizens, and good for the Middle East region. Zuhdi also takes a heartfelt look at the increasing reports of Muslims in Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Iran are leaving the faith for atheism and why both Muslims and non-Muslims should pay attention. Last, Dr. Jasser will address whether the latest efforts in France to confront the anti-Semitic and violent verses of the Qur’an on target or misguided? 
50 min
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Islamism Matters: Stop the Denial - 5/5/18
This week join Zuhdi as he takes an honest look at what supposed roadblocks prevent American Muslims from advocating for religious liberty. A recent report interviews a former CAIR radical come religious freedom advocate, Ismail Royer, and puts the blame on a hostile political climate. Dr. Jasser rejects that and calls upon well-intentioned conservative advocates for religious liberty to stop allowing Muslims to bypass a focus on reform. Zuhdi also looks the new British Home Secretary, Sajid Javid and how revealing some reactions to his appointment are about the ignorance of some who cannot separate between Muslims and Islamists. Last, how un-American is it for a Middle East Studies Association based in Arizona to come to the defense of ISIS' ideological legacy? Listen to find out. 
51 min
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Senator ‘Mullah’ Murphy Motions for the Jihad -...
This week Senator Chris Murphy  (D-CT) in a radical partisan effort to condemn Secretary of State Pompeo called Muslim reformer, Dr Zuhdi Jasser and Muslims affiliated with him anti-Muslim and intolerant. Dr. Jasser will tell  you what every American can learn from how a US Senator can become a mouthpiece for global jihadists. Also Zuhdi looks at the latest reveal from Facebook’s anti-extremism push and why the devil is in the details. Last, what’s the latest out of Iran for the revolution, reform and against the theocratic regime? 
44 min
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“Facebook Fatwas and Assad Truthers” - 4/21/18
This week Zuhdi will fill you in on what you should take away from the latest foray of leading Middle Eastern clerics intro the world of fatwas about Facebook and  social media. Also Dr Jasser looks at all of the propaganda fallout from the US, UK, and France targeting of the Assad regime’s chemical weapons capabilities.
53 min
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Chemical Bashar & The Two-Sided Coin of Assad a...
This week, Dr. Jasser will confront the fallout from the latest use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime. The most recent gas attack in Douma has left the West on the brink of a major military response against the Assad regime and a major national conversation about America’s role in the world in punishing those who commit war crimes. Should the U.S. punish the Assad Regime. Listen to Zuhdi address the controversies you just will not hear elsewhere on Syria and some simple solutions that no one is discussing along the lines of western action in the Balkans in the ‘90s.
53 min
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Woke at Duke - 4/7/18
Don’t miss this week’s episode— our 100th! Following up last week’s episode, Zuhdi will fill you in on what happened during his “controversial” visit to Duke University with all the protests from the Muslim Students’ Association. Also, Dr. Jasser talks about what can we learn from the acquittal of Noor Salman, the wife of Omar Mateen, ISIS terrorist who masequered the Orlando Pulse Night Club. What should we be saying about Assad’s status in Syria? Last, Saudi’s crown prince interminable trip goes on and now he’s getting kudos for “recognizing the state of Israel”. Is there cause for optimism? Maybe. But there is an obviously missing ‘fatwa’ no one is discussing.
50 min
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Mere Mention of Islamism Triggers Islamists - 3...
Don't miss this week's episode as Zuhdi shares with you the controversy that erupted this week at Duke University after the Muslim Student Association was invited to attend his upcoming speech on April 2, 2018 entitled, "The American Muslim Identity: Patriot or Insurgent". Apparently, any conversation about the incompatibility of Islamism with Americanism triggers Islamists. Dr. Jasser was vilified by the Duke Chronicle newspaper and the Muslim Student Association and its allies at the Duke Chronicle Newspaper and beyond without a single substantive argument or quotation and without yet having even spoken. Without a doubt young aspiring Islamists are threatened by leaders of the Muslim Reform Movement and what it means to their power. This week, Zuhdi also discusses Mustafa AKyol's piece in the New York Times about how Islamism drives Muslims away from Islam.. Last what is Islamic sharia-compliant financing? Why it is the jugular of Islamism. 
49 min
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MBS's PR Gambit of Thrones - 3/24/18
Don't miss this episode as Zuhdi reflects on the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia’s trip to the USA. Dr. Jasser reports on how the Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia uses the century old Petro-Islamist playbook where for a western media and its audience, it is not about the reality but about the PR!. Look not at what the King and Crown Prince say but at what they do! Also how a simply clear message from the President of the United States to and for the People of Iran on the occasion of their Nowruz holiday can be a game changer with respect to American credibility with our allies, those citizens who share our values.
52 min
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State Department Gets An Upgrade - 3/17/18
In this can't miss episode, Dr. Jasser looks at what the exit of Secretary of State Tillerson and replacement with Director Mike Pompeo from CIA may mean for the global war against Islamism. Islamists should be very, very worried! In an unfathomable turn in policy, previous hawks on Syria are intimating that "letting Assad win may save some Syrian lives". Zuhdi will spare nothing in responding to this corrupt naive submission of the Syrian revolution to the evil tyranny of the Assad regime. Also, have you had enough with the Islamist whining about Islamophobia. Stay tuned for the latest nauseating Islamist narrative demonizing America now on steroids. When racist, separatist American Islamists expand their anti-American narrative, listen to how this reformist Muslim will confront them.
46 min
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The Feminist Farrakhan Farce - 3/10/18
Don't miss this week's episode! Join Dr. Jasser as he takes on and exposes the farce which is the "Women's March" leadership. The voices of Muslim reformers will never be heard or found when leaders like that of the Women's March movement is nearly impossible in this environment. Then Zuhdi will boldly take on the question of whether Turkey should be allowed to stay in NATO? Why Western nations should "just say NO" to advertisements from the Saudi royal family. Any a final reflection on the role which Ba'athism played in creating the chaos that brewed Islamist radicalism. 
49 min
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French Fried Conservatism - 3/3/18
Is the conservative backlash against French secularism warranted? Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry of the Washington DC Based Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) this week wrote that "Secular" is French for "anti-Muslim" and yet he ignored the entire threat of domestic and global Islamism. Dr. Jasser exposes some of the intellectual malpractice of conservative anti-secularism and how their misplaced obsession with secularism when combined with a malignant blindness for the threat of Islamism is suicidal, ignorant, and just what the Islamists want. Also, where's the media coverage of Turkish President Recip Erdogan's open encouragement of child martyrdom and an AKP Islamist Party gathering this week? Yet we still wonder how Muslims are radicalized? Last why the future of western and global security rests in free markets and the private companies of the free world. 
44 min
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Time for an American Offense! - 2/24/18
Listen to this week’s episode as Zuhdi broadcasts from CPAC in National Harbor Maryland. One year into the Trump administration, as we’ve finally moved beyond the arguments about what we call “Islamist” terror, Dr. Jasser discusses western strategy in the war against global jihad and Islamism. Also, you’ll never guess which country got a top post at the UN as a rapporteur to convenient vacation spots in the Pacific. Last... is there a link between terrorism and poverty? Zuhdi finally puts that notion to rest. 
42 min
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Is the West finally waking up? - 2/17/18
This week Dr. Jasser looks at the unbelievable breakthrough of an apparent shift in policy in France and now possibly the West, where President Macron announced that the French government will begin working with Muslim reformers and insisting that Muslim leaders share in the secular social contract of France. Join Zuhdi as he looks at the good, the bad, and the ugly of the long overdue Western awakening against political Islam. Dr. Jasser also reflects on yet another massacre in an American school and also contemplates some of the imagery related to President Obama‘s official painting and legacy. Last a recent Pew poll shows that American Muslims seem to be abandoning Islam at unprecedented rates. Why? 
42 min
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Bye Bayyah to Diversity! - 2/10/18
This week Dr. Jasser explains how much work really needs to be done in clearing the depths of the proverbial global Islamist swamp when even our most newly minted Ambassador for International Religious Freedom (Amb Brownback) starts off on the Islamist foot —-meeting with Shaikh Bin Bayyah. Any quick study shows Bin Bayyah to be an Islamist with an obviously anti-American pedigree. And what’s the harm of Macy’s marketing a conservative line of “Muslim” dress? Well it’s monolithic approach violates their own intent at diversity. Last, what’s all the fuss about a parade? 
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“The State of the Reform” - 2/3/18
Join Zuhdi in this week’s “Reform This!” as he reflects on important lessons in national unity and resolve that we should all gain from this week’s State of the Union” (SOTU) address.  American should obviously support ideas and policies from political leaders with which they agree regardless of who may claim credit or lead the solutions in Washington. Dr. Jasser looks at the message President Trump sent to dissidents against tyranny around the world, especially in Muslim majority nations. Last, the terms “human rights” are bizarrely shunned by many old hands at State when dealing with Muslim leaders. Why? This appeasement of Islamists must end. Zuhdi will also give you the latest on the accusations against Tariq Ramadan and discuss why the time is now to exert the toughest sanctions possible against the Ayatollah Khamanei’s interests in Iran and around the world. 
49 min
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Protect the US Now from Islamists and their Mon...
Listen to Zuhdi’s take on the recently released report from the Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding the number of foreign-born Americans and immigrants directly connected to terrorism in the United States. Dr. Jasser lays out why border security is so important in the ideological battle against Islamism and how the natural follow on from that is protecting us from the devastating influence of foreign funding and “Petro-Islam”. Canada is considering a solution. The U.S. should also. An ISIS devotee in Phoenix, is sentenced to just 1 year. Where’s the national outrage or even conversation? Or even a local one? Last, why it really matters which American Syrian group hosts a delegation of the Free Syria Army (FSA) fighting against Assadist tyranny in Syria. 
47 min
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The Frontline Battle for Muslim Civil Rights i...
As the US commemorated the Martin Luther King holiday this week, Dr Jasser reflects on why the real frontlines for Muslim civil rights are inside the mosques and in the streets of Islamic sharia states across the planet. As Islamist groups and countries bully Americans about Islam, real equality is actually only a dream for most Muslims inside Muslim communities. Also, Zuhdi looks at what’s behind a growing spate of fake reporting of hate crimes by young Muslims. Last, unbelievably unreported this week was a declaration by the Muslim Brotherhood that the United States is their enemy. Dr. Jasser will inform you about what it should teach every American.
46 min
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Muslims must deal with anti-Semitic Scripture -...
How many radical anti-semitic sermons by American imams need to be exposed before American Muslims finally and honestly address the cited scripture? It’s not only about the hate-filled preachers, it’s about the common supposed sayings of the Prophet Muhammad that are quoted globally. This week Zuhdi asks the questions about Muslim reform few are asking. Even the media covering the recent slew of hateful sermonizers couldn't seem to ask the obvious? Real reform is long overdue. Also, 2018 opened with the hope of the evolution of real revolution in Iran. The light of hope dimmed a bit this week but shines on. Dr. Jasser sheds light on the latest out of Iran and also why the revolution in Syria may not be over.
49 min