Zuhdi Jasser’s assistant attended Garland jihad shooters’ mosque in Phoenix

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Yesterday I called Zuhdi Jasser “the Grand Mufti of the Stealth Jihad.” This is more evidence of the correctness of the title. Courtney Lonergan is a “moderate” — she works for Jasser’s AIFD. But she was close friends with Garland jihadi Ibrahim Simpson. She knew all about him. The distinction between “moderates” and “extremists” is not as large as many non-Muslims imagine it to be — witness Jasser’s endorsement of Alija Izetbegovic, about which I also wrote yesterday.

“Zuhdi Jasser’s assistant attended Garland jihad shooters’ mosque in Phoenix,” by Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch, March 15, 2017:

Yesterday I cited professional moderate Muslim Zuhdi Jasser’s endorsement of pro-Sharia Islamic supremacist Alija Izetbegovic as an example of the problematic aspects of the entire moderate Muslim enterprise. Here is more. At Jasser’s American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) website, the “Our Team” page contains biographies of two people: Jasser himself and Courtney Lonergan, AIFD’s “Community Outreach Coordinator.” (Demonstrating yet again Jasser’s capacity for sonorous gobbledegook that he displayed in such abundance on his Blaze show denouncing me and others as “alt-jihadists,” we’re told that “Courtney is an enthusiastic and compelling participatory facilitator who engages the diverse perspectives of her stakeholders in meaningful dialogue to elicit inspired action and thoughtful working groups.” Good participatory facilitators are hard to come by these days, much less enthusiastic and compelling ones.)

AIFD’s Community Outreach Coordinator is or was a member of the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix, the mosque attended by the jihad terrorists who attacked our American Freedom Defense Initiative free speech event in Garland, Texas on May 3, 2015. And according to Lonergan herself, they were acting upon teachings they heard in the mosque. Pamela Geller wrote at Breitbart in July 2015: “And the jihadis who tried to commit mass murder last May at our free speech event in Garland, Texas, Ibrahim (formerly Elton) Simpson and Nadir Soofi, were members of the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix. Simpson’s friend Courtney Lonergan remembers, according to the Arizona Republic, that “Simpson would never waver from the teachings he picked up in the mosque and elsewhere.” Lonergan said: “He was one of those guys who would sleep at the mosque. The fact that he felt personally insulted by somebody drawing a picture had to come from the ideological rhetoric coming out of the mosque.”

That Arizona Republic article also notes that Lonergan “met Simpson at that mosque about 10 years ago.” Her bio at the AIFD site doesn’t say when she started working for Jasser. Nonetheless, I’ve been harshly criticized (and dubbed a “hate-group leader” by the hard-Left Southern Poverty Law Center) for saying that there was no distinction in Muslim communities between “moderates” and “extremists,” which has been represented as my saying that all Muslims were terrorists, when obviously I meant that “moderates” in mosques were not reporting or expelling the “extremists.” This is proof of that fact: Lonergan, who is a “moderate Muslim” herself and works for the “moderate” Jasser, was well acquainted with the “extremist” Simpson and the teachings of mosque. She didn’t say anything to the Arizona Republic about trying to get Simpson expelled from the mosque for his “extremism.” Wouldn’t it be a strong sign that Jasser’s “Islamic reform” had a real chance of succeeding if mosques were acting strongly against would-be jihad murderers such as Ibrahim Simpson, and if Islamic Community Center of Phoenix mosquegoers were rejecting the mosque teachings that led to the Garland jihad attack?

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wilypagan

7 years ago

Any American woman who joins this cult deserves what she gets.

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Mahou Shoujo

7 years ago

Reply to  wilypagan

She will be a prayer mat for any muslim who feels like preying.

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caliroxanne

7 years ago

I’ve been saying this all along. Mohamed Zuhdi Jasser (Shhhhh! Yes, his name is Mohamed) is dangerous. He plays Islams “good cop” by spewing his top-notch taqiyya. He grooms us into thinking his made-up Islam is actually what the vast majority of Muslims, who are peace-loving and tolerant, by the way , actually follow. I can’t tell you how many fools, including Republicans, parrot Mo Jasser’s nonsense.

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Eu Wei Choi

7 years ago

Reply to  caliroxanne

Considering that we NEVER hear of “Radicals “Confronting him,Calling for His Whatever, he obviously is PLAYING HIS ROLE to the Global Jihad’s Satisfaction
And he even was a US Naval Officer

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Pastor C

7 years ago

Reply to  Eu Wei Choi

That fact, alone, is very telling (for those of us who are ‘paying attention’).

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Pastor C

7 years ago

Reply to  caliroxanne

great observation…

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DemocracyRules

7 years ago

Muslim Brotherhood Operative Dumped by Mattis
Mattis withdraws nomination of Anne Patterson for No. 3 Pentagon job
DEBKAfile March 15, 2017, 2:22 PM (IDT)

“US Defense Secretary James Mattis has withdrawn the nomination of former diplomat Anne Patterson for Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, the third-highest job in the Pentagon. The move came after the White House indicated it would not push for her confirmation in light of strong opposition in the Senate. Patterson, who served as ambassador to Cairo from 2011 to 2013, developed close ties with the Muslim Brotherhood and actively promoted the Obama administration’s policy to raise the brotherhood’s Mohammed Morsi to power.”
http://www.debka.com/newsupdate/20108/Mattis-withdraws-nomination-of-Anne-Patterson-for-No-3-Pentagon-job

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cylde

7 years ago

Jassser is a master at being a fake moderate muslim, i did not know of his many radical connections. i thought he was reasonable and could persuade other muslims to assimilate but his mask is now gone.

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Pastor C

7 years ago

Reply to  cylde

Welcome to reality. I, admittedly, was there as well. See how indispensably-informative the fine and courageous work of people like Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer really is?!!

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Dean

7 years ago

I am disappointed with Jasser. I thought he was spitting into the wind with his expectations that Islam can be reformed, like so many Americanized Muslims also believe, but his arguments against “political Islam” seemed valuable. But it seems that with his denunciation of Pamela you can’t moderate far enough from the inherent Supremacy beliefs, which may be the reason he can’t just convert to another monotheism. He can’t give up being a Muslim and somehow, someway being part of their exclusive tribe, and ultimately had to choose sides and denounce their most adamant and consistent critics. She doesn’t pi** off the jihadists as much as he does, but he is in denial.

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Pastor C

7 years ago

Now that the mask of deceit has been removed, I wonder if he’ll still retain the Islamic ‘moderate’ image and reputation he’s portrayed and worked so diligently to project. If so, if the nation remains blissfully unaware and blinded as to who he really is, and what his subversive jihadist agenda really entails, our nation is at far greater risk and peril than I originally imagined.

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Drew the Infidel

7 years ago

It will be interesting to see how many more times he gets “face time” in front of the TV cameras at Fox News and elsewhere who are desperate to present a moderate muslime, there being no such thing. The networks are quick to point out that he was a Lieutenant Commander in the US Navy at one time. So what? Nadal Hassan, the Ft. Hood shooter, was a major in the Army. Same rank, different title.

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Ragaman

7 years ago

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sam52054

7 years ago

It’s time to call a spade just that. I divide Muslims into two groups. Those are NOT EXTREMISTS and MODERATES. These two groups want the same thing in the end. Your SERVITUDE to Islam. No the two Groups are OBSERVANT AND NON-OBSERVANT. It’s entirely possible to deal with the latter group, since they have at least an inkling that the ideology they were most probably were born into is largely BS. Many would probably leave if it wasn’t a death sentence to do so. We must change our thinking to fight the former effectively. Only when we properly gauge the problem, will we be able to fight it optimally.

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