The Muslim Reform Movement is a U.S.-based organization dedicated to

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based on values of

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governance. The organization was founded on December 4, 2015, when the founders read a "Declaration of Reform" at the

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The founders then went to the Saudi-affiliated

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and posted the Declaration of Reform on the doors of mosque "denouncing violent jihad, rejecting Islamic statism and opposing the 'ideology of violent

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.'" Founding signatories of the Muslim Reform Movement are

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, Usama Hasan, Arif Humayun,

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, Zuhdi Jasser,

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, Hasan Mahmud,

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, Sohail Raza, and Salma Siddiqui. Announcing the founding of the Muslim Reform Movement on

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'' on December 6, 2015, Asra Nomani said,

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