July 17, 2013
On Saturday, July 6, MPAC held an I Am Change workshop at the Islamic Educational Center of Southern California. Salam Al-Marayati, MPAC President, Edina Lekovic, Director of Policy & Programming, and Cherif Abou El Fadl, Community Outreach Fellow, said it was a pleasure on many fronts to spend an early Saturday afternoon with the youth.
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READ MOREJuly 12, 2013
The Gang of Eight’s comprehensive immigration reform bill is now moving from the Senate to the House where it faces several obstacles before it will even be debated. While the Senate version of S. 744 is far from perfect, it is an important first step in the direction of reforming our broken immigration system. -
READ MOREJuly 9, 2013
Abdalrahman Migdad is MPAC's Summer 2013 Policy and Government Relations intern in Los Angeles. He is an international student from Palestine, who is currently pursuing a graduate degree at Pepperdine University School of Public Policy specializing in Economics and International Relations. -
READ MOREJuly 4, 2013
With the suffering of the Rohingya people in Burma continuing unabated, MPAC sent letters to high-ranking officials to request actions be taken to pressure the government of Burma to address the crisis. -
READ MOREJuly 3, 2013
As we approach the 237th birthday of America, we are witnessing a surge in the desire to live in free and democratic societies around the world. Currently, we are witnessing Egyptians live through the growing pains of democracy. They are learning that the will and power of the people, not authority, are the foundations of democracy. -
READ MOREJune 24, 2013
MPAC condemned the brutal murder of four Egyptian Shia Muslims, who were killed in an act of mob violence on Sunday in the Giza province outside of Cairo. Egypt has a rich history of intra-faith harmony, and this attack sets a dangerous precedent for the country and the region. Furthermore, it underscores the need for American Muslims to be vigilant against sectarian vigilantism in the U.S. -
READ MOREJune 21, 2013
Remember this time last year when Rep. Peter King succumbed to a case of senioritis by pranking us with a hearing on The American Muslim Response to Hearings on Radicalization within their Community? Unfortunately, another member has fallen to the same fate by mentally checking out and not completing his homework before the congressional summer break. Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) recently claimed on the House floor that American Muslims have not condemned terrorist attacks and continue to sit idly by while others voice outrage. -
READ MOREJune 14, 2013
The notion that we must give up liberty for freedom has taken our country into a whole new realm of Orwellian life. This week, reports revealed a top-secret NSA program, PRISM, has been collecting data on American citizens through monitoring emails, text messages, phone calls and other methods of communications. -
READ MOREJune 11, 2013
Last week, MPAC President Al-Marayati spoke about “Public-Private Partnerships” at the 2013 National Homeland Security Conference. He spoke about “The Five I-s” -- what it takes to create effective partnership in terms community and law enforcement. -
READ MOREJune 7, 2013
Agents at Boston's Logan International Airport said fellow employees in the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) behavior detection program were targeting minorities for questioning based on their race or ethnicity. In fact, the TSA’s own Inspector General found that the behavioral detection program has done little more in the past seven years than racial profiling of unsuspecting passengers. -
READ MOREJune 3, 2013
Last week, MPAC joined a coalition of more than 160 national, state and local organizations to send a letter to all 100 members of the U.S. Senate advocating for an effective and inclusive prohibition on profiling and discrimination in the immigration bill. -
READ MOREMay 31, 2013
This week, it has been reported that President Barack Obama is prepared to nominate James Comey to direct the FBI. Currently, Director Robert Mueller’s term is set to expire in September leaving the position vacant and the Bureau satiated with public relations problems. -
READ MOREMay 30, 2013
On Tuesday, March 28, MPAC and the New America Foundation (NAF) held a policy briefing, "Online Radicalization: Myths and Realities," with prominent American Muslim scholars and thought leaders to address violent extremism in the form of online radicalization. Later that evening, MPAC partnered with MakeSpace for a community forum with Imam Webb, Elibiary, terrorist attack survivor Adam Motiwala and community leaders Imam Zia Makhdoom, Humera Khan and Hadia Mubarak. -
READ MOREMay 28, 2013
MPAC, in partnership with the New America Foundation, will host a briefing on countering violent extremism and online radicalization on May 28, 2013 in Washington, DC with a panel of six prominent experts in the field. -
READ MOREMay 24, 2013
Yesterday at the National Defense University, President Barack Obama laid out a comprehensive outline of our counter-terrorism policy to end our state of continual warfare. In what seemed like a speech filled with frustrations, the President finally put to words and laid to rest the thoughts and feelings many have had about our use of targeted force, dismantling of Al-Qaeda and detention facilities. -
READ MOREMay 17, 2013
Earlier this month, Edina Lekovic, MPAC’s Director of Policy and Programming, traveled to Zagreb, Croatia, where she spoke at a conference about the social status of Muslim women in Europe. Lekovic presented a lecture on “Uncovering the Real Me: Western Muslim Women Under the Spotlight” before an audience which included the mufti of Croatia, a Bosnian ambassador, academics and community members. -
READ MOREMay 16, 2013
Last Saturday, Pakistan’s national election proved to be a milestone in the political development of a country that has been entrenched in turmoil and grief for several months, if not years. In more than 60 years, this is the first time in the country’s history that one elected government served its full five-year term and subjected itself to the electorate in a free and fair manner. -
READ MOREMay 10, 2013
With all the political gridlock of Washington, DC, it seems the only status of detainees in Guantanamo (Gitmo) Bay is limbo. Though President Barack Obama reaffirmed his commitment to shutting down the detention facility as a moral and national security issue, the reality is that more than half of the Gitmo detainees are approaching the third month of their hunger strike. -
READ MOREMay 9, 2013
Last Sunday before a full house at All Saints Church, Dr. Maher Hathout and Salam Al-Marayati, MPAC's Senior Adviser and President, spoke about the need for community leaders to intervene if they see signs of potential violent extremism rather than shunning those who might be troubled or susceptible to extremist recruiters. -
READ MOREMay 9, 2013
Last month, MPAC submitted a statement for the record at the first congressional hearing on “Drone Wars: The Constitutional and Counterterrorism Implications of Targeted Killing.” The hearing examined the Obama administration’s use of the drone program and whether continued use of the program will have checks and Congressional oversight.
