My Flight Home from D.C.; New Poll Reveals How Much We Presume About Muslim Americans’ Politics; Coming Soon: The Plight of Afghans: A Virtual Summit
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Issue 47: Friday, 15 Oct 2021
THIS WEEK IN DC — THIS WEEK IN DC — Biden Ends Workplace Immigration Raids, Reversing Trump Policy; Schumer Plans Vote On Election Legislation Next Week, Anticipating GOP Blockade; To Woo Manchin, Dems Could OK Climate Funds For Coal And Gas Plants; Senators Unveil Long-Awaited Antitrust Bill; Biden Team Asks Oil Industry For Help To Tame Gas Prices; DOJ Opens Civil Rights Probe Into Texas Youth Correctional Facilities; FDA Authorizes First E-cigarette, Sparking Concern Among Public Health Advocates; Biden Likely To tap Robert Califf To Return As FDA Head; Biden Administration Seeks To Expand Wind Farms In Coastal Waters.
IN THIS ISSUE
* Featured Issue: My Flight Home from D.C.
* MPAC and Emgage Poll: New Poll Reveals How Much We Presume About Muslim Americans’ Politics
* Upcoming: Eradicate Hate Global Summit
* Upcoming: 20 Years after 9/11: American Muslims in 2021
* Coming Soon: The Plight of Afghans: A Virtual Summit
** My Flight Home from D.C.
By: Salam Al-Marayati, MPAC President
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I have been traveling to Washington, D.C. from Los Angeles for the past 30 years, and you will never guess what goes through my mind on every arrival into the Beltway. I think of it as a spiritual journey, a response to the call of God to give Muslims a voice and a space in the most powerful city in the world. On each visit, I usually leave a little more hopeful when engaging the many people who care about the plight of Muslims here and abroad. Sometimes, I have to confess, I have left with a sense of hopelessness: seeing Islam used as a bargaining chip for power, a veneer for the powerful to claim that it is best to give them more power, or an invocation for why Muslims should have no democracy, no power.
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Featured in Religion News Service, the Muslim Public Affairs Council and Emgage conducted a survey of over 500 Muslim Americans to capture their views on a wide range of domestic and foreign policy issues.
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Upcoming:
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Join us for a virtual summit on the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and what we can do to be the best allies. The summit will provide a space in which Afghan voices are recognized and uplifted, whilst addressing the political climate surrounding the ongoing crisis.
Stay tuned for more information!
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In a senseless act of violence fueled by hate, in October 2018, eleven innocent worshippers were killed in a targeted, violent attack at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. The Eradicate Hate Global Summit is the launch of an ongoing project, with a permanent home in Pittsburgh, which will generate specific solutions to deliver actual, lasting, and measurable change in how we combat hate and extremism.
MPAC President, Salam Al-Marayati, will be joining an esteemed cohort of dignitaries and speakers to moderate the panel Deradicalization: Does it Work? This panel addresses the pros and cons of deradicalization programs and explores the important attributes necessary for effective implementation. For more information on this summit, visit their website ([link removed]) .
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Join us as we discuss the ramifications of the events of 9/11 on American Muslims - The racial disparities in prosecution of hate crimes, surveillance and privacy violations disproportionately affecting American Muslims, the war on terror and double standards of DTO v. FTO investigations and prosecutions and how this fueled a rise in Islamophobia.
In conversation will be Sajid Khan, Deputy Public Defender in San Jose, CA, Shirin Sinnar, Professor of Law at Stanford University, and Salam Al-Marayati, President of the Muslim Public Affairs Council.
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GOOD TO KNOW
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* Netflix CEO under fire ([link removed]) for defending Chappelle special
* REVEALED ([link removed]) : Facebook's secret blacklist of "dangerous individuals and organizations"
* Cleric Sadr wins ([link removed]) Iraq vote, former PM Maliki close behind, officials say
* Microsoft to shut down ([link removed]) LinkedIn website in China as internet censorship increases in the country
* A Missouri newspaper told the state about a security risk. Now it faces ([link removed]) prosecution
* Afghanistan: The New York rabbi evacuating ([link removed]) desperate Afghans
- THIS WEEK IN HISTORY -
Oct 10, 680 - Imam al-Ḥusayn ibn Ali and his followers martyred in Karbala by the army of Yazid, the Umayyad caliph, on the way to Kufa; Oct 10, 1957 - US President Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a restaurant in Dover, Delaware; Oct 10, 2003 - Shirin Ebadi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, making her the first Iranian Muslim women to receive the prize; Oct 12, 2012 - The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves of an African-led force to oust Islamist militants in northern Mali; Oct 13, 1924 - Mecca falls without struggle to Saudi forces led by Abdulaziz ibn Saud; Oct 13, 1923 - Angora (Ankara) becomes Turkey's capital; Oct 14, 1906 - Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, born in Mahmoudiyah, Beheira, Egypt (d. 1949).
Oct 10, 1780 - Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in the Caribbean, hitting Barbados first. Atlantic's deadliest recorded hurricane; Oct 11, 1939 - Albert Einstein informs FDR of the possibilities of an atomic bomb; Oct 11, 1985 - President Reagan bans import of South African Krugerrands to the USA; Oct 12, 1285 - 180 Jews refuse baptism in Munich Germany and are set on fire; Oct 12, 1871 - US President Grant condemns Ku Klux Klan; Oct 13, 1792 - Cornerstone laid for the Executive Mansion (White House) in Washington; Oct 14, 1773 - American Revolutionary War: The United Kingdom's East India Company tea ships' cargo are burned at Annapolis, Maryland; Oct 14, 1958 - The District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept black Americans as members; Oct 15, 1883 - US Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional; Oct 15, 1914 - US Clayton Antitrust Act passed (union & strike rights); Oct 16, 1848 - First US homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania; Oct
16, 1901 - Booker T. Washington and his family are invited to dine at the White House with Teddy and Edith Roosevelt, prompting condemnation from the southern states.
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