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Friday, January 15, 2010

List of American Muslims

Nihad Awad - National Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations ^[4]
Robert D. Crane - Former foreign policy advisor and an author ^[5]
C. Jack Ellis - Former mayor of Macon, Georgia ^[6]
Keith Ellison - First Muslim congressman from Minnesota ^[7]
André Carson - Congressman from Indiana ^[8]
Ibrahim Hooper - National Communications Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) ^[9]
Zalmay Khalilzad - Former US Ambassador to the United Nations as well as former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan ^[10]
Malcolm X - Civil rights activist, public speaker and Black Muslim minister ^[11]
James Yee - Former U.S. Army chaplain with the rank of Captain ^[12]
Elias Zerhouni - Director, National Institutes of Health ^[13]

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"It is not the propagation but the permanency of his religion that deserves our wonder, the same pure and perfect impression which he engraved at Mecca and Medina is preserved, after the revolutions of twelve centuries by the Indian, the African and the Turkish proselytes of the Koran. . . The Mahometans have uniformly withstood the temptation of reducing the object of their faith an devotion to a level with the senses and imagination of man. 'I believe in One God and Mahomet the Apostle of God' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The intellectual image of the Deity has never been degraded by any visible idol; the honours of the prophet have never transgressed the measure of human virtue, and his living precepts have restrained the gratitude of his disciples within the bounds of reason and religion."

Edward Gibbon and Simon Ocklay, HISTORY OF THE SARACEN EMPIRE, London, 1870, p. 54.

"It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught and how he lived, to feel anything but reverence for that mighty Prophet, one of the great messengers of the Supreme. And although in what I put to you I shall say many things which may be familiar to many, yet I myself feel whenever I re-read them, a new way of admiration, a new sense of reverence for that mighty Arabian teacher."

Annie Besant, THE LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF MUHAMMAD, Madras,1932, p. 4.