ABOUT MAS FREEDOM

Overview
America has witnessed the expansion of Islam from a few mosques in urban cities
to today's rural south and the Midwestern heartland, or as one poet put it, 'from
sea to shining sea.' Muslim schools, businesses, political organizations,
associations, and institutions, inundate the landscape of America.

Despite Islam's growth in America, there are certain groups in and outside of
America that have long used bigoted distortions of Islam; portraying Muslims in
America as seditious, dangerous, and totally incompatible with American life. Since
the Sept. 11th tragedy, these same forces have intensified this vile propaganda
with reckless abandonment. It is important that Muslims in America not be viewed
as a 'fifth column.' Muslims must continue to build a grassroots movement that
supports an all-encompassing approach of total integration into American Society
for the express purpose of fulfilling the mandate of Allah (SWT) 'to enjoin that
which is good and forbid that which is bad,' in a quest to make a better America
for ourselves, our children, and all Americas.

Mission
To build an integrated empowerment process for the American Muslim community
through civic education, participation, community outreach, and coalition building;
to forge positive relationships with other institutions outside of our community,
that will ensure and facilitate the protection of civil rights and liberties for American
Muslims and all Americans.

Methodology
Masjid-based grassroots education, local leadership training, youth training,
coalition building and networking, and special events towards positively impacting
mainstream America.

Focus Engagement of the following American institutions and organizations in
order to build a broad based coalition that will enhance the religious political and
social viability of the American Muslim Community:

  • Voter Registration & Education Organizations
  • Local civic groups
  • Municipal & state officials
  • Congress
  • Civil rights and progressive political groups: NAACP, ACLU, ANSWER, SCLC,
    CRLC
  • Organized labor
  • The Media
  • College campuses
  • Immigrant groups, Black, Hispanic, & Asian churches, & other non-Muslim
    religious institutions

Mahdi Bray, Executive Director