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Date Posted: Friday, April 03, 2009

In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: MAS Freedom National
Mahdi Bray, Executive Director
Email: mahdi.bray AT masfreedom.org
Office: (202) 552-7414
Cell: (202) 421-3623

At 12PM on Monday, April 6, 2009, the AMT will hold a press conference in the Zenger Room Washington, D.C.'s National Press Club

WASHINGTON, D.C. (MASNET) April 3, 2008 – MAS Freedom (MASF), the civic and human rights advocacy entity of the Muslim American Society (MAS), announces that as more Muslim organizations, Muslim clerics and leaders endorse the American Muslim Taskforce (AMT) March 17, 2009 statement on FBI relations, there has been a ground swell of support among many non-Muslim allies of MAS Freedom in the civil rights, religious, legal and social justice communities.

MAS Freedom Executive Director, Mahdi Bray stated, "We have reached out to such organizations as the NAACP, AFL-CIO, Unite Here, SEIU, Labor Affiliates, National Lawyers Guild, Center for Constitutional Rights, ANSWER, Partnership for Civil Justice, Unitarian Universalist Association, North Carolina Alliance Group, Black Pastors Alliance for Social Justice, Hip Hop Caucus, PAX Cristi, Veteran's Group, Reverend Grayland Hagler - Board Member of the United Church of Christ, Latino Grassroots Organization, and multiple college campus peace and social justice groups and received a very positive response."

Bray added, "We hope to announce our expansive list of non-Muslim supporters at the Monday April 6 AMT Press Conference which will be held at the Washington DC National Press Club."

Rev. Walter Fauntroy, former congressman, civil rights leader and Chief Lieutenant to the late Dr. Martin Luther King stated, "What the American Muslim community faces is not unprecedented in American history. We've witnessed this kind of conduct during the McCarthy era of the 1950s and the Civil Rights period with the emphasis Counter Intelligence Program, COINTELPRO. It was wrong then and it is wrong now. It is wonderful that MAS Freedom and the AMT are willing to stand-up against the misuse of governmental power. I am certain that many in the civil rights community support the AMT in their courageous and principle stand for justice."

WHO: American Muslim Task Force
WHAT: Press Conference
WHEN: Monday, April 6, 2009 at 12 Noon
WHERE: National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW., Washington, DC

AMT is an umbrella organization that includes American Muslim Alliance (AMA), American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA), MAS-Freedom (MASF), Muslim Student Association-National (MSA-N), Muslim Ummah of North America (MUNA), and United Muslims of America (UMA). Its observer organizations include the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) and the Islamic Educational Center of Orange County (IEC).