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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