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2022 Convention | Building Bridges of Understanding

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On November 16, 2022 By MPAC
At MPAC’s 2022 Convention, Andrew Richards, Organizational Partnerships Manager at Food For the Hungry spoke on MPAC’s work in the Hollywood Bureau and Mustard Seed Project working to improve interfaith dialogue and build bridges of understanding to defend the shared universal values of our faiths. Learn more about the work of the Muslim Public Affairs Council at mpac.org. Please donate to continue this work at mpac.org/donate. ---------- Subscribe to MPAC's channel: http://bit.ly/MPACYouTube Like MPAC on Facebook: http://fb.com/mpacnational Follow MPAC on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mpac_national Follow MPAC on Instagram: http://instagram.com/mpac_national Visit MPAC's website: http://mpac.org About the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) We improve public understanding and policies that impact American Muslims by engaging our government, media, and communities. Help us to continue this work by making a donation today: http://mpac.org/donate.
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2022 Convention | An Update on our Policy Bureau

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On November 16, 2022 By MPAC
At our 2022 Convention, MPAC President Salam Al-Marayati outlined the work MPAC has been doing on behalf of American Muslims in defense of the founding principles of America. Learn more about the work of the Muslim Public Affairs Council at mpac.org. Please donate to continue this work at mpac.org/donate. ---------- Subscribe to MPAC's channel: http://bit.ly/MPACYouTube Like MPAC on Facebook: http://fb.com/mpacnational Follow MPAC on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mpac_national Follow MPAC on Instagram: http://instagram.com/mpac_national Visit MPAC's website: http://mpac.org About the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) We improve public understanding and policies that impact American Muslims by engaging our government, media, and communities. Help us to continue this work by making a donation today: http://mpac.org/donate.
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2022 Convention | Fulfilling the Promise of America

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On November 16, 2022 By MPAC
At MPAC’s 2022 Convention, Leena Barakat, CEO of Women Donors Network & WDN Action delivered opening remarks and discussed how as American Muslims we must all pledge to uphold our American and Islamic values to ensure that American democracy not only survives but instead thrives while living up to its founding ideals. Learn more about the work of the Muslim Public Affairs Council at mpac.org. Please donate to continue this work at mpac.org/donate. ---------- Subscribe to MPAC's channel: http://bit.ly/MPACYouTube Like MPAC on Facebook: http://fb.com/mpacnational Follow MPAC on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mpac_national Follow MPAC on Instagram: http://instagram.com/mpac_national Visit MPAC's website: http://mpac.org About the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) We improve public understanding and policies that impact American Muslims by engaging our government, media, and communities. Help us to continue this work by making a donation today: http://mpac.org/donate.
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2022 Convention | An America That Lives Up To Her ideals

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On November 16, 2022 By MPAC
Connie Rice delivered closing remarks to the panel discussion at MPAC’s 2022 Convention “Weaponization of Women: Working Towards Inalienable Rights, sharing her commitment to helping preserve the democratic framework of American so that everyone can have liberty. Civil rights activist and attorney Connie Rice has served as a trusted advisor to MPAC on countless public policy and national security matters. Along with a team of veteran civil rights lawyers, she co-founded the Advancement Project, a multi-racial civil rights organization focused on racial justice in the legislative process.  Over her career, Ms. Rice has publicly warned about the constitutionality of the Executive Order that ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps, has been at the forefront of examining police shootings and law enforcement culture, and has been an advocate of Muslim engagement in public affairs. Ms. Rice and MPAC President Salam Al-Marayati, alongside 44 other leaders, co-chaired a state commission which ensured that crimes motivated by bigotry were not overlooked by officials and communities, and she participated in the Interfaith Peacemaking Project with MPAC co-founder, the late Dr. Maher Hathout. A graduate of Harvard University and the NYU School of Law, Ms. Rice served as a part of the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund and has received over 50 major awards for her work on addressing problems of inequality and exclusion. Learn more about the work of the Muslim Public Affairs Council at mpac.org. Please donate to continue this work at mpac.org/donate. ---------- Subscribe to MPAC's channel: http://bit.ly/MPACYouTube Like MPAC on Facebook: http://fb.com/mpacnational Follow MPAC on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mpac_national Follow MPAC on Instagram: http://instagram.com/mpac_national Visit MPAC's website: http://mpac.org About the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) We improve public understanding and policies that impact American Muslims by engaging our government, media, and communities. Help us to continue this work by making a donation today: http://mpac.org/donate.
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2022 Convention | Weaponization of Women: Working Towards Inalienable Rights

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On November 16, 2022 By MPAC
At our 22nd Annual Convention, we held a panel discussion "Weaponization of Women: Working Towards Inalienable Rights" where we discussed key action steps that can be deployed on an individual and collective basis to beat back the current tidal wave of injustices being heaped upon American women. Our panelists were Asifa Quraishi-Landes, Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Laila Al-Marayati, MD, OB/GYN, and Ghada Khan, MPH DRPH, Executive Director at American Muslim Health Professionals (AMHP). The panel was moderated by Leena Barakat, CEO, Women Donors Network, WDN Action, with Opening Remarks by Sue Obeidi, Director of the MPAC Hollywood Bureau & Closing Remarks by Connie Rice, Co-Founder and Co-Director, Advancement Project. Learn more about the work of the Muslim Public Affairs Council at mpac.org. Please donate to continue this work at mpac.org/donate. For resources visit bit.ly/mpacresources. -------- Subscribe to MPAC's channel: http://bit.ly/MPACYouTube Like MPAC on Facebook: http://fb.com/mpacnational Follow MPAC on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mpac_national Follow MPAC on Instagram: http://instagram.com/mpac_national Visit MPAC's website: http://mpac.org About the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) We improve public understanding and policies that impact American Muslims by engaging our government, media, and communities. Help us to continue this work by making a donation today: http://mpac.org/donate. ---------- Subscribe to MPAC's channel: http://bit.ly/MPACYouTube Like MPAC on Facebook: http://fb.com/mpacnational Follow MPAC on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mpac_national Follow MPAC on Instagram: http://instagram.com/mpac_national Visit MPAC's website: http://mpac.org About the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) We improve public understanding and policies that impact American Muslims by engaging our government, media, and communities. Help us to continue this work by making a donation today: http://mpac.org/give.
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Women, Life, Freedom: The Case of Mahsa Amini and Morality Police in Iran

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iran
religious freedom
On October 9, 2022 By MPAC
On September 16th, Zhina (Mahsa) Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, died under contentious circumstances in a detention center in Iran after her arrest by the morality police, who accused her of violating the laws on compulsory veiling. In the wake of her death, thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets to protest against the theocratic and authoritarian nature of the current Iranian political system. Join MPAC as we discuss the many complexities surrounding this topic including, but not limited to, how the hijab has become a tool of oppression by both the Iranian and the so-called western-liberal democracies (i.e., Iran is jailing women for not wearing the hijab while many European countries are banning women from wearing the hijab), the erosion of Islamic ethics under authoritarian regimes, the historical bias exhibited by media on reporting coming out of Iran, and the impact of the overall historical and current US policy on the most vulnerable groups in Iran. ---------- Subscribe to MPAC's channel: http://bit.ly/MPACYouTube Like MPAC on Facebook: http://fb.com/mpacnational Follow MPAC on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mpac_national Follow MPAC on Instagram: http://instagram.com/mpac_national Visit MPAC's website: http://mpac.org About the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) We improve public understanding and policies that impact American Muslims by engaging our government, media, and communities. Help us to continue this work by making a donation today: http://mpac.org/give.
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Democracy Forum Chicago: Protecting America’s Democracy in the Age of Political Extremism

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american muslims
congress
democracy
government
Pluralism
On September 22, 2022 By MPAC
The January 6 Committee (“J6”) hearings have highlighted to the world just how close the insurrectionists came to disrupting the peaceful transfer of presidential power in our country. Most importantly, the J6 Committee’s work has brought attention to the fact that there is a significant group of people in America (including many elected public officials) who favor authoritarianism over democracy and racism over the guarantees of equal protection for all under our Constitution. On this 21st anniversary of 9/11, we are reminded that the gravest threat facing America today is not from an external enemy, but from within. J6 Committee Chair Bennie Thompson has stated that "January 6th and the lies that led to insurrection have put two and a half centuries of constitutional democracy at risk.” In addition, Illinois’ Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger was recently quoted in a PBS FRONTLINE interview as saying when you: “Look at a lot of failed democracies or struggling democracies . . . You see politics that’s about vindictiveness or about power or about violating the law. . . . We need truth; we need to get back to the basic commitment to democratic norms. That’s what’s at stake at this moment.” Indeed America’s survival as a democracy is itself at stake at this moment. We gathered for an important conversation on the 21st anniversary of 9/11, as our expert panelists discussed their thoughts, ideas and recommendations on how all of us together can once again secure our country’s future as a functioning and vibrant democracy in this age of domestic political extremism. ---------- Subscribe to MPAC's channel: http://bit.ly/MPACYouTube Like MPAC on Facebook: http://fb.com/mpacnational Follow MPAC on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mpac_national Follow MPAC on Instagram: http://instagram.com/mpac_national Visit MPAC's website: http://mpac.org About the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) We improve public understanding and policies that impact American Muslims by engaging our government, media, and communities. Help us to continue this work by making a donation today: http://mpac.org/give.
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