Tawfik Hamid

Tawfik Hamid (Arabic: توفيق حامد; born 1961) is an Egyptian-American Muslim reformer and medical doctor.

[5][6] Hamid was born in Egypt in a secular Muslim family, but later joined al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya under Ayman al-Zawahiri, later leader of al-Qaeda.

The expansion of violent and regressive Islam, he continues, began in the late 1970s and can be traced precisely to the growing financial clout of Saudi Arabia.

[5] In a policy paper for the Air Force Research Laboratory, he has suggested that the wearing of the hijab is a form of "passive terrorism",[11] and he has supported proposals for the United States to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.

[1] Chris Bail, an assistant professor of sociology at Duke University, has criticized Hamid for his ties to anti-Muslim organizations.

Hamid in a lecture at the Memorial Student Center Texas A&M University in 2017