Zuhdi Jasser, founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, tore apart President Obama's claim that "ISIL is not Islamic," calling Obama both the "excommunicator-in-chief" and "enabler-in-chief" for Islamist groups.
Jasser labeled Obama the "excommunicator-in-chief" for publicly declaring who is and isn't 'Islamic' during his prime-time address on the Islamic State. Jasser argued the Islamic State is indeed 'Islamic' and is representative of the dangerous combination of religion and state in Islamic countries:
[The Islamist groups] want nothing more than to suppress the voices of reform. If you talk to reformers, they will tell you that the Islamic State in Iraq now, or out of Syria where it originated, is a clinic in exactly what happens in every one of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation states where you mix religion and state and prevent the reform that the West went through in the American Revolution.
Jasser called Obama an "apologist" for Islamists across the planet, making him the "enabler-in-chief" for groups such as ISIL, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Hamas:
If you take away the word 'Islam,' you're basically allowing the Islamists to monopolize and suffocate reformers from ever having a place at the table because they don't want us to have a voice. And they do that by saying they control what is and what is not Islam.
Fox News host Megyn Kelly asked Jasser to elaborate on the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), citing a dispute that erupted online after her interview with CAIR representative Hassan Shibly--who compared Fox News to ISIL.
"I hope Americans understand CAIR is part of a global lobbying operation of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, an Islamist movement that will do anything to prevent discussion about political Islam," Jasser said.
"They're an offshoot of Hamas. they've come out of the Muslim Brotherhood legacy group. They don't want Americans to make the logical conclusion that when the Muslim Brotherhood took over Egypt, the reason majority of Muslims rejected them is they were about to bring something similar to ISIS to the tens of millions of Egypt."