ABOUT THE RECIPIENT LIST
The “Muslim Pledge for Religious Freedom and Safety from Harm for Former Muslims” – the Freedom Pledge – was sent on the dates shown to the individual Muslim leaders listed below. The organizational affiliation for an individual Muslim leader may be as a director or officer of the specified group. Many Muslim leaders serve on multiple boards, but a single organizational affiliation for each leader is shown, usually as a member of a Board of Directors or as an Executive/President.
WHO GETS THE FREEDOM PLEDGE?
The Freedom Pledge is selectively mailed, with a cover letter addressed to an individual Muslim leader. All pledges that are sent out are individually tracked, in order to provide the greatest transparency and convenience for the public and policymakers who have a compelling interest in knowing who has – or has not – signed the pledge. Many influential Muslim leaders were not sent the pledge in the September 23/24, 2009 mailing due to time constraints, and were mailed the pledge a week later. It is our intent to reach out to as many Muslim leaders as we can, to give them all an opportunity to sign the pledge and support the civil rights of former Muslims.
HOW TO REQUEST A COPY OF THE PLEDGE
Muslim leaders who would like to be mailed a copy of the pledge in order to sign it should send their name, organizational affiliations and postal mailing address to info@formermuslimsunited.org. The pledge is sent by certified or other trackable mail (we may email PDF copies in addition for the convenience of the recipient). If the public or policymakers would like to nominate a Muslim leader to be a recipient of the pledge, so that he or she has an opportunity to sign it, please also email info@formermuslimsunited.org.
September 23-24, 2009
It was pretty late at night by the time our volunteers got to the post office, so some of the first pledges sent out were postmarked September 23 and some September 24.
UPDATE: October 20, 2009
A second round of Freedom Pledges were mailed to Muslim American leaders on October 20, 2009. See below for a list of organizations and names included in the second round.
* = Recipients who have signed and affirmed the Freedom Pledge
Freedom Pledge Recipients for September 23-24, 2009
American Islamic Congress
Zainab Al-Suwaij
American Islamic Forum for Democracy
Dr. Zuhdi Jasser *
American Muslim Council
Nedzib Sacrebey
Raied Abdallah, M.D.
Imam Mongy Elquesny
Jamil Fayez
Hitam Rifai
American Youth Academy
Magda Elkadi Saleh
Association of Muslim Social Scientists of North America
Dr. Ali A Marzui
Center for Islamic Pluralism
Stephen Schwartz
Congressional Muslim Staffers Association
Assad Akhter
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
Nihad Awad
Larry Shaw
Nabil Sadoun
Ibrahim Hooper
Corey Saylor
Sarwat Husain
Fouad Khatib
Dar-ul-Islam
Hassen Abdellah
Fiqh Council of North America
Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi
Shaikh Muhammad Nur Abdullah
Dr. Zulfiqar Ali Shah
Dr. Mohamad A. El Sheikh
Dr. Jamal Badawi
Dr. Ihsan Bagby
Shaikh Abdur Rahman Khan
Dr. Zainab Alwani
Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences
Dr. Taha Jabir Alalwani
Islamic Center of America
Bismahi Ta’ali
Islamic Medical Association of America
Khalique Zahir, M.D.
Islamic Saudi Academy
Abdulrahman Al Ghofaili
Islamic Society of North America
Ahmed El-Hattab
Ingrid Mattson
Mohamed Hagmagid Ali
Faizul Khan
Yusuf Ziya Kavakci
Iqbal Unus
Asad Ba-Yunus
Altaf Husain
Rizwan Jaka
Johns Hopkins University Muslim Association
Heba Mustufa
Muslim American Society
Dr. Souheil Ghannouchi
Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation
Mahdi Bray
Muslim Public Affairs Council
Salam Al Maryati
Dr. Maher Hathout
Dr. Nayyer Ali
Hedab El Tarifi
Dr. Rahmi Mowjood
Patricia Abdullah
Muslim Students Association
Suhail Dar
National Islamic Prison Foundation
Mahdi Bray
North American Imams Federation
Imam Ashrafuz Zaman Khan
North American Islamic Trust
Dr. Bassam Osman
Dr. Mujeeb Cheema
Dr. Gaddoor Saidi
Muhammad Ali Sarodi
Farooq Malik
Palestine Children’s Relief Fund
Dr. Musa Nasir
Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN)
Representative Andre Carson (D-IN)
Freedom Pledge Recipients for October 20, 2009
American Muslim Alliance
Dr. Agha Saeed
Dr. Shabbir Safdar
Dr. Abdul Kunbargi
Mr. Eric Vickers
Dr. M. A. Q. Siddiqui
Dr. Riaz Ahmed
Dr. Bashir Hussain
American Muslim Association of North America
Sofian Abdelaziz Zakkout
Mahamad Rasheed
Wilfredo Amr Ruiz
Anwar Goodwin
Imam Roshan Ali
Sheik Hassan Sabri
Imam Rafiq Mahdi
Imam Ibrahim Dremali
American Muslim Voice
Samina Sundas
American Society for Muslim Advancement
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf
Daisy Khan
Center for Democracy & Human Rights in Saudi Arabia
Dr. Ali Alyami *
Council on Islamic Education
Munir A Shaikh
Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago
Dr. Zaher Sahloul
Tasneem Osmani
Saleem Shaikh
Council of Islamic Organizations of Michigan
Victor Begg
Free Muslims Coalition
Kamal Nawash
M. Sami El-Behiri
Gallup Center for Muslim Studies
Dalia Mogahed
Institute for Global Engagement
Suhail Khan
Institute for Social Policy and Understanding
Iltefat Hamzavi, M.D.
International Institute of Islamic Thought
Louay Safi
International Strategy and Policy Institute
Prof. Inam-ul-Haq
Raj Bagwedi
Farooq Sultan
Dr. Javeed Akhter
Islamic Center for New England
Rashid Noor
Islamic Information Center
Imam Syed Naqvi
Rahat Husain
Islamic Networks Group
Maha ElGenaidi
Islamic Relief USA
Dr. Yaser Haddara, Ph.D
Naser HagHamed
Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights
Abed Awad
Dr. Clovis Maksoud
Dr. Azizah Y Al-Hibri
Masjid Jamaat Al-Mu’mineen
Safiya Deen
Midwest Association of Shia Organized Muslims (MASOM)
Mahmood Dhanji
Muslim Advocates
Farhana Y. Khera
Peaceful Families Project
Afeefa Syeed
Shia Association of Bay Area
Syed Mudassir Ali Shah
Shia Association of North America
Vilayeth Moosavi
Mir Murad
Zaytuna Institute
Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Hanson
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