Rep. Sue Myrick discusses Islamism with Muslims

U.S. Congresswoman Sue Myrick is founder of the Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus.  She also serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

Below is a brief excerpt from an article titled Sue Myrick Meets the Muslims - and Brings Backup which summarized a town hall meeting  Myrick held last Thursday in her district in North Carolina with Muslims:

...Many Muslims, including some of Myrick's constituents, believe her warnings about radicals – and their sympathizers in U.S. government agencies -- working to "throw out our Constitution and force us to live under sharia law" have spread a fear of all Muslims.

...The laughter stopped when Myrick introduced two speakers, examples of the moderate, mainstream Muslims that she counts as advisers. Phoenix physician M. Zuhdi Jasser founded the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) in 2003 to serve as an "example of an American Islamic institution which can be a leading voice for liberty-minded Muslims in America in the war on terror," its website reads.

"We as Muslims are in denial," Jasser said. He decried what he called the "victimology" of groups such as CAIR and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).

 

...Jasser later said the forum was an internal Muslim dialogue that needs to happen. "We try to do this in mosques and they shut us down..."

Dr. Jasser is a Muslim whom I admire very much because he is not afraid to speak out about Islamism - politcal Islam that threatens our country.  When he speaks, I listen.

 

He is not alone.  Below is video Rep. Myrick released in January of a discussion she had with three other Muslims who also deserve our attention because of their insight about the threat we face in America by Islamists.  This is a must watch video because of their powerful candidness and bravery.  The video features Dr. Hedieh Mirahmadi, president of the World Organization for Resource, Development and Education (WORDE), Zeyno Baron, Director of the Hudson Institutes Center for Eurasian Policy; and Farid Ghadry, an Executive Member in the Reform Party of Syria.

Video (58 min):