MPAC President's Report; MPAC Joins Coalition Statement on Buffalo Mass Shooting & Title 42; Join us for the 30th Annual MPAC Media Awards

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Issue 81: Friday, 10 June 2022

THIS WEEK IN DC— Harris Delivers Brief Remarks At The Summit Of The Americas; Negotiators Craft Parameters Of Senate Gun-Violence Package; Two Democrats Vote Against Advancing Gun Legislation; Lisa Gomez’s Nomination To Become Assistant Secretary For The Labor Department’s Employee Benefits Security Administration Fails In Senate; GOP Push For SCOTUS Security Bill After Arrest Outside Kavanaugh’s House; Pentagon Names Biden’s US Strategic Command Nominee, Air Force General, Anthony Cotton; Uvalde Fourth Grader Details Harrowing Account Of Shooting To House Committee; FDA Advisers Vote To Recommend Novavax Covid-19 Vaccine; DOJ Announces Team To Investigate Response To The Uvalde School Massacre As Survivor Says More Could Have Been Done; House Jan. 6 Committee Opens Public Hearing With Never-Before-Seen Video And Officer Testimony; CDC To Lift COVID Test Requirement For International Air Travelers.


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* MPAC President's Report
* MPAC Joins Coalition Statement on Buffalo Mass Shooting & Title 42
* ICYMI: Inaugural National American Muslim Policy Conference
* ICYMI: MPAC Joins ICUJP for Friday Forum
* Join us for the 30th Annual MPAC Media Awards


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** MPAC President's Report
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BY: Salam Al-Marayati, MPAC President

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"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)


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The Quran was revealed to us over 1400 years ago and one of its unfailing attributes is that with each passing decade, century or millenia, its wisdom never ceases to be prescient.

The verse above is perhaps the perfect example. That Quranic wisdom is perhaps more applicable today than it was upon its revelation.

It presents us with a challenge as it relates to current social issues:

Can one, based on faith, be opposed to abortion but still be pro-choice?

Can one support strong security policies for our country while defending civil liberties?

Can one demand gun control while supporting the 2nd Amendment?

The answer to all these questions is a resounding yes but the repercussions of taking such stands have costs— usually mockery or ire or intimidation by the extremes…

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** MPAC Joins Coalition Statement on Buffalo Mass Shooting & Title 42
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MPAC signed on to a statement to the United States Senate, with a coalition of organizations led by The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, The Immigration Hub, and Haitian Bridge Alliance, alerting Congress to the connection between the Buffalo mass shooting and rhetoric around Title 42—namely, the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory.

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ICYMI


** Inaugural National American Muslim Policy Conference
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MPAC co-hosted the inaugural National American Muslim Policy Conference on Tuesday, June 7 which brought together elected officials, experts, and leaders from across the nation to discuss our community's policy priorities and needs. We are proud to have worked alongside American Muslim Health Professionals, Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, Illinois Muslim Civic Coalition, and Emgage Action.

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** MPAC Joins ICUJP for Friday Forum
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MPAC President, Salam Al-Marayati joined Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace (ICUJP) for How Anti-Muslim Animus is Fueling the Great Replacement Conspiracy Theory, a discussion centered around the narrative of the replacement theory that is being pushed by right-wing media. Working together toward a pluralistic democracy is the counter-narrative that deflates the idea that Muslims are here to replace white civilization.

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UPCOMING


** Join us for the 30th Annual MPAC Media Awards
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For the first time in 30 years of the MPAC Media Awards, the majority of this year's honorees are Muslim trailblazers. See how Muslims are changing the entertainment landscape. Learn more and register ([link removed]) for our FREE live stream event on June 26 (5:00-6:30 pm PT).

With appearances by Oscar winners, past honorees, performances, and more, you won't want to miss this milestone event. RSVP now. ([link removed])



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GOOD TO KNOW
* 'Tool of genocide': Chinese government is forcibly removing ([link removed]) organs from prisoners' bodies
* Democrats are mounting ([link removed]) a response to the Great Replacement Theory
* Son of Buffalo shooting victim presses ([link removed]) Senators on domestic terrorism: "What are you doing?"
* U.S. accused of stalling ([link removed]) on deal to free Guantanamo prisoner


- THIS WEEK IN HISTORY -

June 5, 1916 - The Sherif Hussein proclaims a revolt of the Arabs in the province of Hejaz, an action that undermines the Turkish Empire; June 5 ,1963 - State of siege proclaimed in Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini arrested; June 5, 1975 - Egyptian president Anwar Sadat reopens Suez Canal; June 6, 632 - Prophet Muhammad passes away (approximate date); June 6, 1950 - Turkey: The Adhan in Arabic is legalized; June 6, 1967 - Israeli troops occupy Gaza during second day of the Six-Day War; June 6, 1982 - 30,000 Israeli troops invade Lebanon to drive out the PLO; June 7, 1099 - The first crusade in Jerusalem begins; June 7, 1967 - Israel captures Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem, Jericho and Bethlehem; June 7, 2000 - The UN recognizes the blue line as the border between Israel and Lebanon; June 8, 1974 - Saudi Arabia and USA sign military and economic contract; June 10, 1967 - Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq & Egypt end "6-Day War" with UN help; June 10, 1916 - Great Arab Revolt begins against ruling Ottoman
Turks; June 6, 640 - Muslim army sent by Caliph Omar begins siege of Heliopolis, city succumbs mid to late July, paving way for Muslim conquest of Byzantine Egypt; June 10, 1982 - Israeli troops reach outskirts of Beirut.

June 5, 1851 - Anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe first published in serial form; June 5, 1950 - US Supreme Court undermines legal foundations of segregation; June 5, 1956 - US Federal court rules racial segregation on Montgomery buses anti-Constitutional; June 6, 1966 - Civil rights activist James Meredith wounded by white sniper in Mississippi; June 6, 1968 - Sen. Robert F. Kennedy dies from his wounds after he was shot the previous night; June 7, 1862 - The US and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade; June 8, 1953 – The US Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons; June 8, 1789 - James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the US House of Representatives; June 9, 1772 - First naval attack of the Revolutionary War takes place in Providence, RI; June 9, 1870 - US President Ulysses S. Grant meets with Sioux Chief Red Cloud at The White House in
Washington, D.C.; June 10, 1692 - The first victim of the Salem witch trials is hanged for witchcraft in the colony of Massachusetts; June 10, 1752 - Benjamin Franklin tests the lightning conductor with his kite-flying experiment; June 10, 1963 - US Equal Pay Act signed into law by President John F. Kennedy; June 11, 1776 - Continental Congress creates committee to draft a Declaration of Independence.


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