Featured Interviewees 
Ayaan Hirsi AliAn outspoken defender of women’s rights in Islamic societies, Ms. Hirsi Ali escaped an arranged marriage in Somalia by immigrating to the Netherlands in 1992, and served as a member of the Dutch parliament from 2003 to 2006. In 2004, she and director Theo van Gogh made Submission, a film about the oppression of women in conservative Islamic cultures. The airing of the film on Dutch television resulted in the assassination of van Gogh by an Islamic extremist. Ms. Hirsi Ali now lives in the US where she is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
Phares is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington. He was Professor of Middle East Studies, Ethnic, and Religious Conflict at Florida Atlantic University from 1993 to 2006. He has published several books and articles in various journals.
Dr. Jasser is the founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD). AIFD is a startup think tank that suppTen years after September 11th, radical Islamists still threaten our freedom. orts the expression of Islam as consistent with American democracy and the clear separation of religion and state. A devout practicing Muslim from Wisconsin, Jasser is the son of Muslim-Syrian immigrants. After medical school, Jasser served as a US Navy doctor. He was later an Attending Physician to the US Congress. Jasser has since been in the private practice of internal medicine and nuclear cardiology in Phoenix. He is the immediate-Past President of the Arizona Medical Association.
About The Third Jihad
The Third Jihad, the newest offering from the producers of the captivating documentary film, Obsession, explores the existence of radical Islam in America and the emerging risk that this “homegrown jihad” poses to national security, western liberties and the “American way of life.”
The film, which is narrated by devout Muslim American Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, opens with the following statement: “This is not a film about Islam. It is about the threat of radical Islam. Only a small percentage of the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims are radical. This film is about them.”
In 72 minutes, the film reveals that radical Islamists driven by a religiously motivated rejection of western values cultures and religion are engaging in a multifaceted strategy to overcome the western world. In contrast to the use of “violent jihad” and terror to instill fear in “non-believers,” The Third Jihad introduces the concept of “cultural jihad” as a means to infiltrate and undermine our society from within.
The Third Jihad: Radical Islam’s Vision for America from Clarion Fund on Vimeo.
