Muslim American Society (MAS)

Government & Politics

‘Unbelievably tone deaf’: Abdul El-Sayed omits Hamas atrocities, attacks Israel in Oct. 7 fundraising email The Michigan Democrat running for Senate is facing backlash online for the anti-Israel stunt

October 8, 2025   

(Free Beacon) Abdul El-Sayed, a Democrat running to replace retiring Michigan Sen. Gary Peters (D.), marked the second anniversary of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack with a fundraising email that made no mention of Hamas’s atrocities and instead blamed Israel for […]

Government & Politics

Report: More than $25m in US Homeland Security grants went to radical groups with terror ties The Middle East Forum identified 'misuse of taxpayer dollars on a grand scale,' the think tank’s executive director told JNS.

July 23, 2025   

(JNS) The U.S. Department of Homeland Security sent more than $25 million to extremist groups with ties to Islamist terror groups between 2013 and 2023, according to a new report from the Middle East Forum. Gregg Roman, executive director of the think […]

Clerics & Preachers

Hotel in Texas to host two speakers tied to Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood One of the speakers had previously nearly been denied US citizenship over his links with Hamas and the [MB].

November 20, 2024   

(Jerusalem Post) The Hilton hotel in Houston Westchase is hosting an event featuring two speakers with reported ties to terror organizations, including Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. The event — named “From horror to hope: A benefit event for Gaza aid” — […]

Government & Politics

Muslim community leaders will meet in Chicago to push campaign against Biden as deaths mount in Israel-Hamas war Chicago’s #AbandonBiden event is scheduled to coincide with the annual Muslim American Society and Islamic Circle of North America convention, expected to draw more than 30,000 to McCormick Place over the weekend.

December 29, 2023   

(Chicago Sun-Times) Muslim community leaders from across the country will rally in Chicago Saturday, calling for voters to drop their support for President Joe Biden because of his administration’s refusal to call for a cease-fire in Gaza as the civilian death toll […]

News: North America

Largest US Muslim group: ‘Maximum pressure’ on Israel, renege on Abraham Accords The statement from the United States Council of Muslim Organizations came just hours after widespread Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel.

October 7, 2023   

(JNS) Instead of expressing condolences to innocent Jewish victims, the United States Council of Muslim Organizations, which bills itself as the “largest American Muslim civil society umbrella organization,” issued a statement urging Arab countries that had normalized relations with the Jewish state […]

Interfaith

Conference in Baltimore features Islamist speakers with antisemitic histories Hatem Bazian, who was on a panel at the three-day event, said at a 2004 San Francisco rally: 'It’s about time that we have an intifada in this country.'

June 12, 2023   

(JNS) The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) and the Muslim American Society (MAS) concluded their three-day annual conference late last month at the Baltimore Convention Center. A number of activists and clerics with histories of antisemitism and anti-Israel statements were listed […]

Discrimination & “Islamophobia”

‘Insulting beliefs far from freedom’: Turkish president Ideological fanaticism has gained more ground, Turkish president tells annual convention of Muslim American Society

November 28, 2020   

(Anadolu) Decrying rising Islamophobia in Western countries, the Turkish president said Saturday that insulting people’s beliefs has nothing to do with freedom. “You have been closely following the meanness in France towards the Prophet [Muhammad] under the label of ‘freedom of thought’,” […]

Demonstrations

US activists keep pressure on Saudi Arabia with LA protests Civil rights groups want to ensure the country is held to account for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and its jailing of religious scholars and human rights activists.

July 2, 2019   

(TRT) A coalition of civil society groups took to the Saudi consulate in Los Angeles to protest Riyadh’s human rights abuses, including the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the imprisonment of religious and civil society activists. Sunday’s event was organised by the […]