M. Zuhdi Jasser

Testified in writing to a U.S. House national security subcommittee that the Muslim Brotherhood is a global terrorist threat. Urged Congress to have the group named a foreign terrorist organization country by country, starting with Egypt, and to stop federal engagement with its affiliated U.S. groups.

July 11, 2018Supports National Defense

Source: congress.gov · researched August 16, 2026

Told the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee that the government was fighting terrorist violence without naming the political ideology behind it, and pointed to the White House counterterrorism strategy as an example. He argued that change had to come from Muslims themselves and asked Congress to keep holding hearings on radicalization in the American Muslim community.

June 20, 2012Supports National Defense

Source: congress.gov · researched August 16, 2026

Told a U.S. House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on February 27, 2013 that hatred of Jews spreads through Islamism, meaning political Islam, and warned it is an early sign of wider persecution of religious minorities. He urged Congress to publicly name and shame anti-Jewish rhetoric from Islamist movements, give platforms to Muslim reform groups that fight it, and stop working with Islamist organizations.

February 27, 2013Supports Civil Rights

Source: govinfo.gov · researched August 16, 2026

On June 11, 2015, M. Zuhdi Jasser was elected vice chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.

June 11, 2015

Source: uscirf.gov · researched August 16, 2026

On March 28, 2014, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell reappointed M. Zuhdi Jasser to a second term as a USCIRF commissioner.

March 28, 2014

Source: uscirf.gov · researched August 16, 2026

On March 26, 2012, Congress appointed M. Zuhdi Jasser to serve as a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.

March 26, 2012

Source: uscirf.gov · researched August 16, 2026