(IPT) Nihad Awad has a vision for America’s future. Awad, a co-founder and executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), calls it “the formula.”
“A strong CAIR equals a strong community,” he said Saturday during CAIR’s national fundraising banquet. “A strong community will produce a strong, and confident and successful Muslim … We are as strong as your support for CAIR.”
“So I’m telling you tonight we are going to work in the next years, Inshallah [God willing], to elect at least 30 Muslims in the Congress,” he said. “This number is equivalent to our size and our potential as American Muslims. Including at least two [U.S.] senator Muslims.”
His math is a little off.
Thirty additional Muslim members of the U.S. House and Senate would constitute 5.6 percent of Congress. But that’s better than double the anticipated Muslim American population in Awad’s timeframe.
