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Since 2003, the Islamic Information Center Inc. (IIC) has been making waves throughout the country. The center was founded to project a positive image of Islam on three main levels, in order to change perceptions and build bridges. The first part of society that IIC wishes to work on is to establish interfaith connections with the local and national communities. Next, IIC would like to establish a positive and accurate image of Islam in the print, radio, television, and internet newsmedia. Finally, the IIC hopes to help portray an authentic representation of Islam to elected officials and government agencies. IIC has accomplished a great deal by pursuing a campaign of presenting Islam to interfaith groups and organizations,. More than a hundred churches, synagogues, and other places of worship have heard about, met with, or encountered IIC in one way or another with promising results.

Politicians Speaking in Support of Muslims

By Hafiz Rashid

With Islam being targeted heavily by American politicians in the past, an Muslim in America these days can’t expect to see a lot of positive news. Ever since September 11, 2001, many politicians have looked towards the Muslim population in this country and seen only security risks. However, recent events are showing that a change may be in order. In October, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution recognizing the holy month of Ramadan and expressing the “deepest respect to Muslims in the United States and throughout the world" by a margin of 376-0. No other resolution has ever passed in this country before, and certainly not by this extent. To top it all off, there were over 30 cosponsors of the bill in addition to the bill’s main sponsor, Rep. Eddie Johnson of Texas (D). Of course, Congress’s lone Muslim, Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota (D) was one of the co-sponsors.

Weapon of Words

The Nation Article, by Mowahid Hussain Shah

Published: May 4, 2008

Government departments in the US, such as the Department of Homeland Security, the National Counter-Terrorism Center, and the State Department, are now instructing their personnel not to describe radicals as 'Islamo-fascists' or 'jihadists'. There is a growing sense that use of such terminology offends the larger Muslim community. It is the point this writer has been making for years in the US and elsewhere.

To measure its true offensiveness, let someone in Western media or academia try routinely depicting evangelical Christians as 'Christian-fascists' or Zionist settlers of occupied Palestinian territories as 'Judeo-fascists'. This over-clever ploy to use the behavior of the few to tarnish the whole may ultimately backfire and prove to be a self-inflicted wound...

Article Extracted from Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) Website

January 11, 2008

This week, President Bush kicked off a six-nation tour of the Middle East with a visit to Israel and the West Bank in an effort to reaffirm the United States' commitment to restart the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. President Bush encouraged Israeli and Palestinian leaders to make difficult concessions in order to create a "lasting peace" that has proven to be out of reach. And in a new step, he called for the end of Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands. President Bush's sudden sense of urgency, initiated at the Annapolis, Md. conference in November 2007, marked a different tempo and attitude from an administration that has placed Iraq and the "war on terror" as its foreign policy priorities.

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