Spark: Created page

2018-02-25T00:49:13Z

Created page

New page

==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.<ref>http://shoebat.com/2014/05/26/executive-director-benghazi-select-committee-recuse/</ref>
* [[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. <ref>https://archive.is/NXD9G</ref>

==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.<ref>http://soros.dcleaks.com/download/?f=/tab%2005%20national%20security%20human%20rights.pdf&t=us</ref>

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.<ref>http://ppia.wikia.com/wiki/2011_US_Congress_hearings_on_al-Qaeda_recruitment</ref>

==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.
<ref>https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/268542/robert-mueller-agent-willful-ignorance-robert-spencer</ref>
<ref>https://freedomoutpost.com/robert-mueller-sabotaged-counterterror-training-2012/</ref>

==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. <ref>https://archive.is/hMyoJ</ref>

==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.
<ref>http://www.adl.org/press-center/press-releases/discrimination-racism-bigotry/adl-releases-best-practices-challenging-cyberhate.html</ref>
<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20141004032514/http://www.adl.org/combating-hate/cyber-safety/best-practices/</ref>

==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.
<ref>http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/02/05/revealed-names-of-four-american-muslim-leaders-at-white-house-anti-muslim-bigotry-meeting/</ref>

* [[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]]<ref>https://archive.is/N9kR7</ref>, 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]]. <ref>https://www.algemeiner.com/2016/10/10/how-george-soros-money-and-a-muslim-rights-group-undermined-homeland-security/</ref>
* [[Monika Bickert]] - Head of Global Policy Management for [[Facebook]], keynote speaker to Muslim Advocates "Countering Hate on the Internet" dinner <ref>https://counterjihadreport.com/2014/04/13/facebook-exec-to-headline-muslim-advocates-countering-hate-on-the-internet-dinner/</ref>
* [[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.<ref>https://archive.is/umvBz</ref>

==References==
<references/>

Muslim Advocates - Revision history

Spark: Created page