Muslim American Society

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For the ministry of W.Deen Mohammed, see American Society of Muslims.

The Muslim American Society (MAS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1993 that describes itself as an Islamic revival and reform movement.

It was created after a debate among Muslim Brotherhood members in the U.S. about whether to remain underground or to have a public face. Both Mohammed Mahdi Akef, now the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide, and Ahmed Elkadi, leader of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood, were pivotal in the founding of the MAS in America.

MAS has 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.[1]

MAS also has an affiliate, the MAS Freedom Foundation,[2] whose Executive Director is Mahdi Bray.

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

References

  1. ↑ ."A rare look at secretive Brotherhood in America" http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdog/chi-0409190261sep19,0,7534398,print.story
  2. ↑ http://www.masnet.org/index_publicaffairs.asp Retrieved 2007-10-21.

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