The American Muslim Council (AMC) is an Islamic organization and registered charity in the United States. Its headquarters is located in

Chicago, Illinois (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ...

. An earlier organization with the same name was founded in 1990 by

Abdul Rahman al-Amoudi Abdul Rahman Al-Amoudi (), better known as Abdurahman Alamoudi, is a former American Muslim activist known for founding the American Muslim Council. He pleaded guilty to financial and conspiracy charges in 2004, which resulted in a 23-year pris ...

with the support of the Muslim Brotherhood. (Al-Amoudi is also the former leader of the

Islamic Society of Boston The Islamic Society of Boston (ISB) is an organization that runs two mosques in the Boston area. The original mosque called Islamic Society of Boston is in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2007, the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center (ISBCC) wa ...

.) The AMC later reorganized itself under a new name and moved its national headquarters from

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to Chicago. The organization currently using the name "The American Muslim Council" is different from the AMC founded by al-Amoudi; it is much more moderate. AMC took part in the defense of South Florida Professor and Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader

Sami Al-Arian Sami Amin Al-Arian ( ar, سامي أمين العريان; born January 14, 1958) is a Kuwaiti-born Islamist and political activist of unverified Palestinian origin who was a computer engineering professor at University of South Florida. Durin ...

and questioned the US government's allegation that the professor took part in terrorist activities. AMC produced a pamphlet in which it said that "the FBI has a history of harassing and harming minority and immigrant communities". On March 2, 2006, Al-Arian entered a guilty plea to a charge of conspiracy to help the

Palestinian Islamic Jihad The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine ( ar, حركة الجهاد الإسلامي في فلسطين, ''Harakat al-Jihād al-Islāmi fi Filastīn''), known in the West simply as Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), is a Palestinian Islamist pa ...

, a " specially designated terrorist" organization. Al-Arian was sentenced to 57 months in prison, and ordered deported following his prison term.MegLaughlin
In his plea deal, what did Sami Al-Arian admit to?

St. Petersburg Times The ''Tampa Bay Times'', previously named the ''St. Petersburg Times'' until 2011, is an American newspaper published in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States. It has won fourteen Pulitzer Prizes since 1964, and in 2009, won two in a single ...

, April 23, 2006. AMC is also a member of the American Muslim Political Coordination Council (AMPCC), along with the American Muslim Alliance (AMA),

Council on American-Islamic Relations A council is a group of people who come together to consult, deliberate, or make decisions. A council may function as a legislature, especially at a town, city or county/shire level, but most legislative bodies at the state/provincial or natio ...

(CAIR), and

Muslim Public Affairs Council The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) is a national American Muslim advocacy and public policy organization headquartered in Los Angeles and with offices in Washington, D.C. MPAC was founded in 1988. According to the organization’s website ...

(MPAC). AMPCC's primary concern is to coordinate the member organizations on activism and lobbying.''Arab-American faces and voices: the origins of an immigrant community''
p. 261, Elizabeth Boosahda,

University of Texas Press The University of Texas Press (or UT Press) is a university press that is part of the University of Texas at Austin. Established in 1950, the Press publishes scholarly books and journals in several areas, including Latin American studies, Texan ...

, 2003, , 9780292709201, accessed November 30, 2009

References

External links

American Muslim Council, official website
* Islamic organizations based in the United States Islamic political organizations Muslim Brotherhood Religious organizations based in Chicago {{Chicago-stub