20 Facts About Tashbih Sayyed

Tashbih Sayyed was a Pakistani-American scholar, journalist, and author and was the editor-in-chief of Our Times, Pakistan Today, and In Review.

Tashbih Sayyed was founder of the websites Muslim World Today and Pakistan Today.

Tashbih Sayyed is featured in the documentaries, Relentless: The Struggle for Peace in Israel and Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West.

Tashbih Sayyed was born in India in 1941 to a Shiite Muslim family.

Tashbih Sayyed started his career in journalism at Pakistan Television in 1967, ultimately becoming the controller and general manager of the station.

Tashbih Sayyed left his position at the station in 1980 and immigrated to the US in 1981.

In later years, Tashbih Sayyed founded two California-based weekly newspapers, Pakistan Today and Muslim World Today.

Tashbih Sayyed appeared in the documentary Relentless: The Struggle for Peace in Israel and in Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West.

Tashbih Sayyed was the founder and president of the Council for Democracy and Tolerance in the United States, an organization established to promote pluralism and respect for democratic values in society.

Tashbih Sayyed served as editor of South Asia in Review, a quarterly journal, and was an adjunct fellow of the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC.

Tashbih Sayyed criticized Palestinian extremism, saying that "Terrorists not only benefit from wide support through Palestinian society, they embody only too well the deepest hopes of the majority: to destroy the Jewish state".

Tashbih Sayyed criticized Arab nations of making the children and grandchildren of Palestinian refugees second-class citizens in Lebanon, Syria, or the Gulf States, and said that the refugees "cling to the illusion that defeating the Jews will restore their dignity".

Tashbih Sayyed said that Arab dictators, the PLO and radical Islamist movements have used the media, mosques and universities to present Jews as unholy intruders, occupiers, murderers, and enemies of Islam.

Tashbih Sayyed continued by saying that Palestinian "terrorist movements" have successfully connected the Arab-Israeli conflict with the militant Islamists' goal of establishing a global caliphate.

Tashbih Sayyed regarded Israel highly, and said that Israel is vital for the stability of the region.

Tashbih Sayyed noted that Israel is one of the few countries in the Middle East where Arab women can vote.

Muslim women, according to Tashbih Sayyed, are in fact more liberated in Israel than in any Muslim country.

Tashbih Sayyed concluded by saying "I am convinced that it is true that God created this earth but it is a fact that only an Israel can keep this earth from dying".

Tashbih Sayyed condemned the press that portrays the Israelis as villains, and "chooses to ignore all rules of ethical journalism when it comes to Israel".

Tashbih Sayyed was strongly affiliated with Zionism and openly promoted himself as a Muslim Zionist.