Dr. Zuhdi Jasser's testimony before the Committee on Homeland Security
{This is the transcript from youtube and it needs a LOT of correction}
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only our first witness today doctors who did
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to is a pro
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the america
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form for
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democracy a devout Muslim doctor dresser founded
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afta in the wake of the 9/11 attacks in the United States
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as an effort to provide an American Muslim VoIP voice
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advocate for the preservation with for the founding principles in the United
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States Constitution
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I must say as member of congress remember doctor Jasser
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when he was here he is a respected physician and a former tenant
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too many United States Navy and he actually worked in the attending
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physicians office here the United States Capitol
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for better or worse he kept us healthy as a rock constituents may not be too
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happy about having a great job
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the biggest here is very healthy and again your
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to appreciate you being here today and germans recognized doctor dresser
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doctor
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you put on makeup on the bridge thank you
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thank you thank you chairman King Ragnar Thompson
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distinguished members of the committee for seeking my testimony on what I feel
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is most important
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most important threat American security in 21st century
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and as Chairman King said I come to you as a devout Muslim somebody that
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is very concerned about our country and not only
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its polarization with paralysis and dealing with this problem
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we formed organization to address this
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but yet we've not been able to even move one step forward significantly because
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that process
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one camp on the polarization refuses to believe that any Muslim could be
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radicalized
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and yet we see as we've discussed here
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until now a significant increase in the number an exponential increase in the
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number radicalized Muslims
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that may not be from within our communities that we know but are Muslim
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nambla
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on the other side to the pool polarity is those that feel that islam is the
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problem anyone a label Muslim there's all
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one collective and really are seeking a solution
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I think in the majority in the middle is modern America that is looking for a
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solution
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and I think these hearings are an opportunity for Muslims to address that
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solution
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let me be clear and stayed up front that unequivocally for the record that the US
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has a significant problem with Muslim radicalization
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in a listener I'm Muslim and I realized that my problem and I need to pick them
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that's what I'm trying to do
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it's unfortunate that you have from the best work
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on radicalization is being done by non-muslims like NYPD report on
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radicalization
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most Muslim groups condemn that report went back we Muslims should have been
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doing that report
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let me also say clearly that it is a problem that we can only song
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Christian jus non non-muslims cannot solve Muslim radicalization
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so yes there may be other types the violent extremism
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but that cannot be solved by non-muslim so we can
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close our eyes and pretend it doesn't exist weekend
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call everybody a a bigot or in Islamabad with the even talk about it
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but you're not going to solve the problem and the problem increasing
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exponentially
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what I when I hope that we can discuss
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get beyond this blind concept violent extremism
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it is a final step but radicalization is a continuum
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cooperation is a continual I personally never known a Muslim that wouldn't
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report
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somebody about to blow something up or commit an act the vial
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but that's a final step on a continuum of radicalization
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I believe there are small elements but significant elements of ideology within
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our community
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that is radicalizing based on the identification
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the lack of identification and the separatism Andy
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disenfranchisement of certain Muslim from the society
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that makes them not bond makes them not trust the government makes them
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distrust the FBI and creates a culture of a lack of cooperation
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that's what we need your help in solving America's current paradigm is feeling
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and you know I'm a physician I was trained as a position to patients come
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in they've got three or four symptoms
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typically they have one diagnosis they'll come in with recent in three
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diagnoses
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so when we look at the problem radicalization
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we have to realize that be the panoply excuses that are given a foreign policy
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are domestic policy all this kind of stuff
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built on never run out at the end of the day at the moral corruption within a
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certain segment
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that is using our religion hijacking it
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for a theopolitical movement that is not only domestic but it is global
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and the reason I'm here today in taking the time with my family
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and my work to do that did to be here with you is because
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we're failing we are not addressing that were so much soaking up the band with
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up the discussion in this country on this with victimization
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that we're not addressing the core problem in the root cause
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and yet these Hall this government was based on discussing
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religious diversity are our founding fathers are self-employed was based on
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being able to have discussions that were functional
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on religion but yet once a a movement a threat hi gets religion we seem to
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become completely dysfunctional we get histrionic so we can even talk about it
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and I hope we can move been on that I fear for the legacy that my children
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will have
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because I want them to be able to have the gift just like I got from my parents
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that felt American the first met they stepped off the plane when they came
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from the oppression of Syria
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and they understood that the practice their faith their beautiful face it this
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far more freely here than they could
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anywhere else in the world why because this government is not under one
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bait the Thunder God and it's based on liberty these are the principal just as
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Prime Minister Cameron said
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week at continued to play defense we need a muscular liberalism
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and so far our tax money our resources has been squandered
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we've continued to play defense and until we have an ideological
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offense into the Muslim communities domestically and globally
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to teach Liberty to teach the separation of mosque in state
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you are not going to solve the problem we are not going to stop it
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I'm not saying that you consult the ology you shouldn't be solving the RT
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that's my problem
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but we need to build public private partnerships
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to build platforms where you can advocate for the laws in the
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constitution that are universal human rights
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that are based in the quality of men and women the quality of all faiths before
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law
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these are principles that certain pockets of Islamic law
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islamic legalisms within systems in this country and
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outsider advocating that are in contradiction with our government
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our society end up radicalizing on a continuum
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end up creating a culture lack of cooperation
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and pull you treat that diagnosis what I call political Islam
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spiritual Islam will continue to suffer our faith community will suffer
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and this country's security will continue to suffer
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the current group that I'm speaking on behalf I think I've been feeling
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they may be well-intended about civil rights but they're apologetics their
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dismissals
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have been completely failing I think if you look at Nidal Hasan
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he didn't become radical overnight and if you look at his resume
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it's frighteningly similar to mine but yet something happened in him
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over years over years any catches by Malaki
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a locking himself before he became a radicalized ur
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was being radicalized somewhere and he was giving sermons a mosque and Amber in
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San Diego in Northern Virginia
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and when you talk to certain leaders in the Muslim community they say
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all of a sudden we don't know what happened he became bile
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that's not the way it works pathology creeps up
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overtime in there is just as we see in alcoholism
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there's enable urs and the enabling that's been happening and some of our
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not all not even a majority has been pretty
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has been I think significantly causing a progression of this problem and that's
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why we're not reading and getting better
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doctor Jess if you try to conclude about 30 seconds was Esther
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so ultimately we need solutions our organization has talked to and created a
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Muslim Liberty project that looks that
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inoculating muslims with the idea that liberty
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giving them the empowerment the who counter in moms to feel that they can
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represent their own faith we have a retreat coming in the next month
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to bring Muslims in from all over the country to begin that retreat process
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this is our homeland and we want to set this aside to begin if you will a
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counter jihad
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an offence to come to the ideas that i think is the best way to use our
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resources
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as a nation and remember that the freedoms that we have don't come
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with a cheap price and we need to give back and that the solution ultimately to
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fear Muslim
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if it exists is for americans to see muslims leading the charge against
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radical Islam
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thank you thank you doctor dresser on it
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