Abdul Malik Mujahid

Abdul Malik Mujahid is an American Muslim Imam a producer, author, and non-profit entrepreneur. He was born in Pakistan in 1951. Imam Mujahid has been selected six times as one of the "World’s 500 Most Influential Muslims.”

He is the founding president of Sound Vision which was established in 1988 in Chicago. It is a not for profit organization which develops Islamic content and does public relations for the peace and justice causes. He is the executive producer of Chicago's RadioIslam, a daily one-hour (6 PM to 7 PM CST) talk program on WCEV 1450 AM.

Imam Mujahid has been active with the interfaith movement since the 1993 Parliament of the World's Religions was revived. He has addressed the Parliament in Cape Town South Africa, Barcelona, Spain and Melbourne, Australia. In November 2009, the Board of Trustees of the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions elected him as chairman. He chaired the international 2015 Parliament in Salt Lake City which was attended by 11,000 people from 50 religions and 80 countries.

He has served on the Independent Task Force on Civil Liberties and National Security by the Council on Foreign Relations in New York from 2006-2009. He also served on independent task force of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs on the civic and political integration of Muslim Americans. It's report, Strengthening America: The Civic and Political Integration of Muslim Americans, was issued on June 26, 2007 calling for Muslims and non-Muslims to work together to create full and equal opportunities for Muslim Americans to participate in American civic and political life.

In 2008 he served on the Credentials Committee of Democratic National Convention.

Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid is a founding member of a PAC called; Muslim Democrats [1]

Imam Mujahid is among the faith leaders asking for better policies on the climate change. He addressed a major interfaith gathering along with Al Gore at Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York City, the evening of the September 21, 2014 historic march on the climate change Imam Mujahid announced the climate change will be one of the major themes of the forthcoming Parliament of the World's Religions.

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