in the name of Allah the most beneficent the most merciful
so I was born in Pakistan in Sialkot and I came here when I was nine years old in
1994 so I grew up in Virginia went to elementary school there when middle
school high school University as well so graduated the with an IT degree and so this as I
grew up in Virginia now living in Maryland I also went to I also have a
Islamic studies to degree as well so I went to George Mason University in
Fairfax Virginia I majored in information technology
graduated from there in 2008 and then I worked in the IT field for a few years
before I got involved with ICNA Council for social justice full time I wanted to
contribute to give back to the society and to the community and I wanted to try
to bring positive change in the world but whatever level that we can so social
justice isn't as an arena where there's a lot of absence from the Muslim
community were very good with the relief efforts and Dawah and other things but
we're not very good with social justice issues social justice it's defined
basically it depends on who you ask but generally speaking it is it's about
making sure that everyone's rights are fulfilled and everyone gets whatever
they deserve and no one is oppressed in any way that's basically what social
justice is and it's in social justice entails mostly social justice activism
entails mostly getting involved and demanding your government or your
society to give those rights to those who deserve them so ICNA Council for
social justice basically well there are a number of things we do we partner up with other
social justice organizations Muslim or non-muslim base doesn't matter we
some Christian partners we have some Jewish partners so we link up with
them and we trying to advocate for things that we mutually agree on things
like you know raising the minimum wage and ending US torture you know ending mass
incarceration and at other times or economic inequality for example racial
injustice giving rights to the indigenous people so these types of
things so we join up with those organizations and their efforts so we
you know attend rallies with them we get petition sign on their behalf one of our
main goals is to get the Muslim community involved in this process we so
we try to be this bridge between social justice movements and work and the
Muslim community because a lot of them people in the Muslim community don't
know how to get involved what to do and so ICNA CSJ basically acts like a
bridge to cross over and encourage them to get involved in these movements in
these organizations and basically stand up for social justice issues so we were
a part of the the Native American indigenous rights that was happening in
North Dakota so we sent a team out there and they did a small documentary on what
the people were there was suffering is on our website icnacsj.org
we've also done lobbying where we basically link up with other Muslim organizations
we call Muslim Advocacy Day because in this country one of the main ways you
can get... get things done is trying to persuade politicians to create laws
which are fair to everyone so every year we organized a Muslim advocacy day and
we take Muslims last year we had about close to five to six hundred Muslims we took
to Capitol Hill and there's a two-day process we make them meet their
politicians their elected officials and we try to basically lobby for just laws
or those...or either try to remove support from laws which are
unjust or try to encourage politicians to pass laws which will be fair to
everyone so these are type of some of the efforts that we've done and we've
also done a lot of work regarding you know getting involved with
raising the minimum wage efforts and how is it you know having a very bad impact
on many families who cannot afford two or three jobs and they can
barely put food on the table and it's hurting a lot of people and so we've
been involved in some efforts of rallying and going to DC and rallying
and basically asking the government to raise the minimum wage so there are some
non-muslims their minority but they're very loud so they seem like a majority
who have this idea or more like a conspiracy theory that the whole purpose
Muslims are here is because they're trying to take over the US government
and establish Sharia law and they want to turn it into Saudi Arabia or
something like that which is of course is not true because Sharia law it does
not mean taking over the government international law it is basically just
abiding by God's law it's the same thing as for example the Jews they have their
own you know they have their judicial did have their Judea cloth that they
follow or even Christians and they have their Christian law that biblical law
that they follow so that doesn't mean they try to take over the country and
so Sharia Law is basically just almost abiding by the rules of his religion and
85% of Sharia law based you know it deals with personal ritual worship for
example and another 10% deals with dietary laws marriage laws and things
like that and only 5% deals with actually the state level you know and no
one here is trying to take over the state and the US has very strict laws
that it that any foreign type of law it already has a law in existence in any
type of foreign law that contradicts us-based law it would not be tolerated
so there's already a law in place that isn't the so this is actually the
irrational fear that has no basis and it's just propaganda from Islamophobes
trying to basically create fear against Muslims and minorities and try to drive
them out you know some of the lessons I've learned is that social justice
especially in the Muslim community is very dead we're not very active in it
because generally speaking Muslims are very well-off in this
country you know for financially very well-off educationally very well-off so
we're not very connected with those who don't who are less well-off in this
country and because of that there's not a lot of people from the Muslim
community engage in social justice work and there's a lot of fear to that I came
across that a lot of Muslims are fearful that if I get involved in social justice
work maybe the government might come after me you know maybe I might get
deported or something like that you know so there's a lot of fear amongst Muslims
but something that we have to get involved in is it's very important
another thing I learned is that even in Islam in our religion you know social
justice is a huge part you know of trying to fight for change trying to
bring any positive change in society is part and parcel of our faith the prophet
(SWL) I'm said whenever you see sir whenever you see something evil try
to change it with your hand if you cannot then with your tongue and if you
cannot then you know at least detest it within your heart and that's the least of
faith that's a call to action you know that when you see something wrong try to
change it you know in your society in your family you need yourself whatever
it is is to try to change that to want it so in our society we see a lot of
unjustice going injustice going on all around us whether this deals with racism
whether it deals with economic rights whether it deals with you know unjust
policy something you know I'm part of the government whatever it is so we
should as Muslims be involved in that type of work and try to bring change to
it so that's part and parcel of face so
that's another thing that I learned so basically I would recommend to the Muslim youth
if they want to get involved social justice work they should either
link up with organizations that are you know maybe in the for example in their
high school or in their universities are a lot of organizations that involved in
you know in the political change or climate they have organizations and even
MSA's some of them they get involved in social justice work or get
involved with your MSA and encourage them to link up with other student
organizations on campus and get involved in social justice work you know if at
all all these lot of anti drop campaigns a lot of students are there
student organizations that get involved and they go to these rallies and they
get involved into this into the you know atmosphere they can also get
involved by you know locally you know they can look up locally what type of
organizations exist in their area which are doing social justice work and they
can link up with them I would also recommend they should at least try
started reading materials on social justice issues they can go to Amazon
look up like the top ten books on social justice for example it just kind of
familiarized themselves but what it means to be in social justice what type
of issues we deal with as a society were also documentaries watch on social justice
issues a lot of good ones on climate change that exist and a lot of things on
mass incarceration they're out there on racism as soon as you just educate
themselves and know what they're getting themselves involved and what they're
fighting for
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