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Salaam Alaikum,
At Muslim Advocates, we are beginning to turn our hearts and minds towards Ramadan. At this time of year, we focus on those furthest from power, who are most vulnerable, and who are leaning on their faith for strength. This year’s Ramadan falls in the early days of a new administration deploying daily and escalating assaults on the safety, wellbeing, and dignity of the communities we serve. As we mark our 20th Anniversary this year, it’s our privilege and honor to support our communities in drawing on their faith.
Our national Keeping the Faith initiative [[link removed]] is designed to support the religious needs of incarcerated Muslims. We help ensure that their organized demands for religious accommodations and justice are heard with the constitutional force they deserve. Regardless of who is in office, we all have a constitutionally protected right to practice our religion where we work, at school, and in prisons, jails, and immigration detention facilities.
Our work creates change.
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Last year, Muslim Advocates and Stanford Law School’s Religious Liberty Clinic put all 50 state departments of corrections on notice of their legal obligations to provide religious accommodations to Muslims in their custody during Ramadan, a time of heightened observance and sensitivity for Muslim people on the inside. This work helped lead to an important victory. Colorado used to have a policy of providing Suhoor only at sunrise, after the daily fast had already begun. After we specifically raised this policy deficiency [[link removed]] , Colorado has now changed its policy to begin providing Muslim prisoners pre-dawn meals as is religiously appropriate. This year, the Muslim Advocates team, the Stanford Religious Liberty Clinic, and pro bono law firm attorneys are relaunching our campaign directed at carceral facilities nationwide. More about that soon.
We have also recreated our know your rights resources [[link removed]] for Ramadan this year. They provide information about your rights to religious accommodations in schools, workplaces, and carceral facilities and include templates for making religious accommodation requests. We will continue to roll out more resources in the coming weeks. Please share them with someone who might need reassurance of their agency to observe Ramadan, free from unlawful interference.
Finally, please consider joining our community of donors this Ramadan. Making a one-time gift today or becoming an “advocate”—a member of our monthly donor community—helps guarantee that our attorneys remain on the frontlines, doing the legal-advocacy work our communities deserve in these perilous times.
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