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The Muslim American Society (MAS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1993 and headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, that describes itself as an Islamic revival and reform movement. Its founding member were mainly foreign students of Arab descent.^[1]

It was created by the Muslim Brotherhood, after a debate among Muslim Brotherhood members in the U.S. about whether to remain underground, or to have a public face.^[2][3][4] The Moslem Brotherhood was created in Egypt in 1928, and is committed to the globalization of Islam by means of social engineering and violent jihad.^[5] Both Mohammed Mahdi Akef, now the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide, and Ahmed Elkadi, then the leader of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood, were pivotal in the founding of the MAS. The new organization instructed its members to evade questions about the group's ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, and to define jihad as a "divine legal right" of Muslims to be used for defense and the spread of Islam. MAS leaders have said that these views are not now held by MAS leaders.^[6][7][8]

MAS also has an affiliate, the MAS Freedom Foundation,^[9] whose Executive Director is Mahdi Bray. For a number of years, Esam Omeish was its President.

MAS has participated in interfaith dialogue with the U.S. Bishops' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs.

References

1. ^ The North American Muslim resource guide: Muslim community life in the United States and Canada, Mohamed Nimer, Taylor & Francis, 2002, ISBN 0415937280
2. ^ Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America, Brigitte Gabriel, Macmillan, 2008, ISBN 0312358385
3. ^ They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It, Brigitte Gabriel,Macmillan, 2008, ISBN 0312383630
4. ^ Five American Infidels, D. P. Robertson, AuthorHouse, 2007, ISBN 1434327248
5. ^ Infiltration: how Muslim spies and subversives have penetrated Washington, Paul Sperry, Thomas Nelson Inc, 2005, ISBN 1595550038
6. ^ Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, Sam Roe, and Laurie Cohen, "A rare look at secretive Brotherhood in America", Chicago Tribune, September 19, 2004
7. ^ Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America, P. David Gaubatz, Paul Sperry, WND Books, 2009, ISBN, 1935071106, accessed February 5, 2010
8. ^ Stealth Jihad: how radical Islam is subverting America without guns or bombs, Robert Spencer, Regnery Publishing, 2008, ISBN 1596985569, accessed February 4, 2010
9. ^ Muslim American Society, Retrieved 2007-10-21

External links

• Muslim American Society
• MAS Youth