By: MPAC Policy Bureau — On Thursday, a 6.1 magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan killed over 1,000 civilians and injured over 1,500. Adding a sour icing to the devastating layer cake of challenges Afghans face, humanitarian efforts are stumbling against hurdles of US sanctions designed to isolate the Taliban. …

By: MPAC Public Policy Fellow Jameel Subhan — Last Sunday, Americans observed the newly commemorated holiday known as Juneteenth. Recognizing Juneteenth is only a small step in the right direction for this country, and as Muslims, we have to go further and understand the importance that African Americans have had in introducing Islam to America. Muslims and the…

Washington, D.C. | mpac.org | June 24, 2022| The Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, the right for women to get an abortion. This decision is perilous to women across the nation. Islamic scholar and constitutional law professor Asifa Quraishi-Landes states that there are a diversity of views on abortion…

Washington, D.C. | mpac.org | June 19, 2022| The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) would like to acknowledge Juneteenth to honor the generations of enslaved African Americans who built this nation. Slavery was legally abolished in 1863 with the Emancipation Proclamation, however, its signing reached all enslaved African American people…

By Jameel Subhan, MPAC Public Policy Fellow — “Whereas January 6, 2021, was one of the darkest days of our democracy, during which insurrectionists attempted to impede Congress’s Constitutional mandate to validate the presidential election and launched an assault on the United States Capitol Complex that resulted in multiple deaths, physical harm to over 140 members of law…

BY: Salam Al-Marayati, MPAC President “And thus have We willed you to be a community of the middle way, so that [with your lives] you might bear witness to the truth before all mankind, and that the Apostle might bear witness to it before you.” (Quran 2:143) The Quran was…

By: MPAC Policy Bureau Dr. Preston J. Phillips was an Orthopedic Surgeon who dedicated his life to alleviating pain and suffering for his patients in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Sadly, his family, friends and colleagues will live the rest of their lives suffering and in pain because the preceding sentence is in…

To God we Belong and to God we Shall Return. Today, 18 children and one teacher in Uvalde, Texas did not go home to their families after school. And with each passing hour, we learn of more victims of this tragedy who have perished. Instead, they returned to their Creator…

Our intelligence agencies are tasked with determining what the greatest threat is to our country and ensuring that it never sees the light of day. They all have come to the same conclusion: Domestic Terrorism and White Supremacists. Their analysis was tragically proven right when a white supremacist and domestic…