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The MLFA's flagship project is the Constitutional Law Center for Muslims in America, which is a nonprofit law firm directed by attorney Charles Swift.The center focuses on two primary missions: (1) "Challenging governmental security measures affecting Muslim communities which encroach upon the constitutional liberties guaranteed to all" and (2) "protecting the rights of Muslim individuals and ...
National Association of Muslim Lawyers (NAML) is an organization of Muslim lawyers founded in 1996 as 'Muslim JD'. [1] [2] In 2000, it was renamed to its current name. [3]NAML conducts an annual conference with several hundred legal professionals participating in it, including Muslim attorneys federal judges, law professors, and law students.
The Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) is the United States largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group, originally established to promote a positive image of Islam and Muslims in America. CAIR presents itself as representing mainstream, moderate Islam, and has condemned acts of terrorism and has been working in collaboration ...
The law was then updated to include all foreign or religious laws. [8] The law was challenged by an official of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. In November 2010 a federal judge ruled the law to be unconstitutional and blocked the state from putting it into effect. [9] [10] The court found the ban had the potential to do harm to Muslims.
In between the wide-eyed optimism of a young law student and the sobered worldview of an aging law professor, 9/11 and today’s war serve as bookends for morbid middle passages for Muslims in ...
The Fiqh Council of North America (originally known as ISNA Fiqh Committee) is an association of Muslims who interpret Islamic law on the North American continent. The FCNA was founded in 1986 with the goal of developing legal methodologies for adopting Islamic law to life in the West.
The diversity of Muslims in the United States is vast, and so is the breadth of the Muslim American experience. Relaying short anecdotes representative of their everyday lives, nine Muslim Americans demonstrate both the adversities and blessings of Muslim American life.
This is a list of Muslim members of the United States Congress. As of 2025 [update] , five Muslims have been elected to Congress, the first being Keith Ellison in 2006. [ 1 ] As of the 119th Congress , four Muslims currently serve in Congress, all in the House of Representatives , and all being members of the Democratic Party .