Muslim American Society
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| Formation | 1993 |
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| Headquarters | Falls Church, Virginia |
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Chairman
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Nadeem Siddiqi |
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Executive Director
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Mazen Mokhtar |
| Mission | "To move people to strive for God consciousness, liberty, and justice, and to convey Islam with utmost clarity." |
| Website | www |
The Muslim American Society (MAS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1993 and headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia. MAS describes itself as an Islamic revival and reform movement.
According to its website, the society is a “dynamic charitable, religious, social, cultural, and educational, organization” with over 50 chapters across the United States. Over the past two decades, the organization has evolved into “a nationally recognized grassroots movement” that strives to promote active involvement of U.S. Muslims in communities across the U.S.
MAS was created by the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States after a debate among Muslim Brotherhood members in the U.S. about whether to remain underground or to have a public face.
MAS has instructed its members to evade questions about the group's ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, and to define jihad as a "divine legal right" of Muslims to be used for defense and the spread of Islam. MAS leaders have said that these views are not now held by MAS leaders.
Towards this end, and often in cooperation with other organizations, MAS provides opportunities to engage U.S. Muslims to participate into a variety of social experiences including community service, interfaith and youth programs, civic and political activism.
MAS’ mission is to better the individual-in-society by imparting Islamic knowledge that would “move people to strive for God consciousness, liberty and justice” towards a “virtuous and just American society.”
In 2016, at a point when representative Keith Ellison was the leading contender to become Chair of the Democratic National Committee, it was discovered that in a speech at a 2010 Muslim American Society fundraiser, Ellison had asserted that United States foreign policy is "governed by" Israel.
The Muslim American Society advertises on its website a number of publications produced by MAS’ prominent members and affiliates or deemed essential for the educational purposes.
Among the publications currently sponsored by MAS are:
MAS also promotes several projects:
MAS says that it helps students to “properly understand, recite, and memorize the Quran” through its Quran Institute.
Evidence confirms MAS’ enduring affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States. Both a detailed account of MAS’ history published by The Chicago Tribune in 2004 and Washington expert Matthew Levitt’s testimony in 2007 established that the organization is in fact the representative of the Islamist organization on American soil.
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