Voting is Power

Islam mandates every Muslim to be unequivocally committed to social justice.  Civic engagement may be the most powerful way to fulfill that mandate in a democracy.  Our collective involvement with the electoral process allows us as a community to express our views, and influence the laws and policies which govern America.

On the other hand, our lack of enthusiasm to participate in the political process makes us vulnerable to laws and politicians that may subvert our rights. 

In recent years, many dangerous laws were passed in the name of national security.  The Congress passed the USA PATRIOT Act, new repressive immigration laws and profiling measures are considered, and intrusive Presidential Executive Orders are released regularly.  Whether these laws and policies increase our national security is highly questionable.  But these have been widely used to profile and persecute Muslims in America. 

Many politicians, like Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) and Pete King (R-NY), and highly placed government officials like General Boykin, have made Muslim-bashing part of their everyday rhetoric, with no repercussion.  In our domestic and foreign policies, we have made it acceptable to attack Muslims.

Only with our vigorous commitment to the electoral process, we can begin to change this unfavorable climate.  This website is dedicated to that end – to inform and empower the Muslim Americans on the politics, legal issues, candidates and elections at Federal and State levels, and thereby to become a catalyst for positive change.

Please use this website extensively and inform others about it.  We will continue to enrich it with more and more information useful to the Muslim American and other voters.  

If you have comments and questions about the issues discussed here, or issues we may have overlooked, please let us know.  This is your home on the internet – for all issues pertaining to voting and civic empowerment – because Voting is Power!