Muslim Advocates
Contents
- 1 Membership
- 2 National Security and Human Rights Campaign
- 3 2011 US Congress hearings on al-Qaeda recruitment
- 4 2012 purge of US law enforcement training materials
- 5 2014 purge of US law enforcment training materials
- 6 2014 project on cyberhate
- 7 February 4 2015 White House Muslim Leaders meeting
- 8 December 2016 DC Gala
- 9 Relationships
- 10 References
Membership
- Farhana Khera - President and Executive Director. Worked in office of Senator Russ Feingold.
- Naheed Qureshi - Deputy director, co-founder. Former National Field Organizer for the American Civil Liberties Union. Formerly worked for the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and Department of Homeland Security.
- Brenda Abdelall - Charities Program Director
- Madihha Ahussain - Staff Attorney
- Alan Iijima - Development Officer
- Melody Sabooki - Development Associate. Former intern for Jackie Speier.
- Fatima Ali Azam - Administrative Assistant. Manager of External Affairs for Al-Bayan (UC Berkeley).
- Fatima Khan - Communications Consultant
- Akil Vohra - Counsel. Vouched for the Holy Land Foundation one year before it was found guilty of supporting terrorism.[1]
- Mohamed Sabur - Director of Program to Strengthen Muslim Charities. Co-founder of Qunoot Foundation with Zahier Janmohamed.
- Jabir Faqi - Senior development officer. Development Manager at Masjidul Waritheen in Oakland, California
- Shahid Buttar - Director of Grassroots Advocacy for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Executive Director of Bill of Rights Defense Committee (2009-2015). Communications manager for American Constitution Society for Law & Policy (2005-2008). Founded the Muslim Advocates program to combat racial & religious profiling. [2]
National Security and Human Rights Campaign
The National Security and Human Rights Campaign is a project of the Open Society Institute and Atlantic Philanthropies to suppress American support for continuing to fight al-Qaeda, initiated at the request of Muslim Advocates.[3]
The key OSI staff who developed the campaign strategy include:
- Aryeh Neier - President of Open Society Institute. Former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch and National Director of the American Civil Liberties Union
- Ann Beeson - former Associate Legal Director at the American Civil Liberties Union
- Nancy Chang - NSHR campaign manager
- Sophia Conroy - NSHR Program Officer
- Stephen Rickard - Director of OSI-DC
- Morton Halperin - OSI-DC senior advisor
- Wendy Patten - OSI-DC Senior Policy Analyst. Former U.S. Advocacy Director for Human Rights Watch, employed by the Department of Justice and the National Security Council.
NSHR propaganda materials include a prominent quote from Ingrid Mattison of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).
Grants for the NSHR program were given to the Proteus Fund whose subsidiaries include the Third Wave Fund of Feminist Frequency board member Katherine Cross.
2011 US Congress hearings on al-Qaeda recruitment
Muslim Advocates and Open Society Institute were among organizations that protested against Congressional hearings on the presence of Somali al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab in the United States.[4]
2012 purge of US law enforcement training materials
Muslim Advocates directed Robert Mueller and John Brennan to remove training materials that mention Islam and jihad in connection with terrorism. [5] [6]
2014 purge of US law enforcment training materials
Muslim Advocates partnered with the NAACP, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Lambda Legal to demand the removal of training materials and trainers from the Department of Homeland Security. [7]
2014 project on cyberhate
Muslim Advocates partnered with the Anti-Defamation League, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Yahoo, and Youtube to develop best practices for countering cyberhate. [8] [9]
February 4 2015 White House Muslim Leaders meeting
Muslim Advocates was involved in creating the guest list for a meeting at the White House between Valerie Jarrett, Ben Rhodes, and a number of Muslim leaders who have been accused of relationships to terrorist organizations. [10]
- Hoda Elshishtawy of the Muslim Public Affairs Council which was founded by members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.
- Sherman Jackson - King Faisal Chair of Islamic Thought at the University of Southern California
- Azhar Azeed - president of the Muslim Brotherhood-founded Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)
December 2016 DC Gala
Guests at a Muslim Advocates meeting in December 2016 included Valerie Jarrett and Anti-Defamation League Vice President Stacy Burdett. The ADL's affiliation with Muslim Advocates was praised by Eric J. Greenberg[11], director of the Multifaith Alliance for Syrian Refugees and former ADL Interfaith Director.
Relationships
- Leadership Council on Civil Rights - member
- Hattaway Communications - developed PR strategy. Run by former Hillary Clinton aide Doug Hattaway. [12]
- Monika Bickert - Head of Global Policy Management for Facebook, keynote speaker to Muslim Advocates "Countering Hate on the Internet" dinner [13]
- Eric Han - Member of Global Safety team at Uber. Developed methods for hate speech and counter-speech case analysis with Berkman Center for Internet and Society and published case studies in Muslim Advocates’ annual report Click Here to End Hate.[14]
References
- ↑ http://shoebat.com/2014/05/26/executive-director-benghazi-select-committee-recuse/
- ↑ https://archive.is/NXD9G
- ↑ http://soros.dcleaks.com/download/?f=/tab%2005%20national%20security%20human%20rights.pdf&t=us
- ↑ http://ppia.wikia.com/wiki/2011_US_Congress_hearings_on_al-Qaeda_recruitment
- ↑ https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/268542/robert-mueller-agent-willful-ignorance-robert-spencer
- ↑ https://freedomoutpost.com/robert-mueller-sabotaged-counterterror-training-2012/
- ↑ https://archive.is/hMyoJ
- ↑ http://www.adl.org/press-center/press-releases/discrimination-racism-bigotry/adl-releases-best-practices-challenging-cyberhate.html
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20141004032514/http://www.adl.org/combating-hate/cyber-safety/best-practices/
- ↑ http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/02/05/revealed-names-of-four-american-muslim-leaders-at-white-house-anti-muslim-bigotry-meeting/
- ↑ https://archive.is/N9kR7
- ↑ https://www.algemeiner.com/2016/10/10/how-george-soros-money-and-a-muslim-rights-group-undermined-homeland-security/
- ↑ https://counterjihadreport.com/2014/04/13/facebook-exec-to-headline-muslim-advocates-countering-hate-on-the-internet-dinner/
- ↑ https://archive.is/umvBz