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'''Mazen Asbahi''', an attorney, was briefly the Muslim American Outreach coordinator for the [[Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008]]. He was appointed on July 26, 2008 but resigned on August 8 due to questions about ties with a fundamentalist group eight years ago. <ref name=ChiST>{{citation | '''Mazen Asbahi''', an attorney, was briefly the Muslim American Outreach coordinator for the [[Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008]]. He was appointed on July 26, 2008 but resigned on August 8 due to questions about ties with a fundamentalist group eight years ago. <ref name=ChiST>{{citation | ||
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Mazen Asbahi, an attorney, was briefly the Muslim American Outreach coordinator for the Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008. He was appointed on July 26, 2008 but resigned on August 8 due to questions about ties with a fundamentalist group eight years ago. [1]He remains a board member of the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding. Current activitiesBefore his appointment, he had been an associate in the law firm, Schiff Hardin LLP, but has gone into private practice, saying
He wrote a column about wise charity giving for Muslims, carrying out the obligation of zakat without getting into legal trouble by giving to organizations associated with terrorism. President Obama said, in his Cairo address, “That’s why I’m committed to working with American Muslims to ensure that they can fulfill zakat.”[3] An American Civil Liberties Union report identified a chilling effect on legitimate giving.[4] Mazen's advice to avoid problems:[3]
2000 association and 2008 resignationIn 2000, he was the board of the Allied Assets Advisors Fund, whose board members included Jamal Said, based at a fundamentalist mosque. The Fund is a subsidiary of the North American Islamic Trust, funded by Saudi Arabia. Said, who was an unindicted conspirator in a 1993 prosecution, which ended in a mistrial, associated with fundraising for Hamas. [5] Asbahi said,
Militant Islam Monitor began by describing "The move is being greeted by the usual terror friendly suspects such as CAIR as further evidence of "Islamophobia," and Internet "persecution," cites the Said link, and also mentions his being on the speakers' bureau list of the Islamic Society of North America. It also cites his ISNA biography as showing links to the "Nawawi Foundation [a da'wa organization run by a convert to Islam which presents all of history from an Islamist perspective] as well as the National Association of Muslim Lawyers (NAML) which has close ties to the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), " [6] That biography does list the Nawawi Foundation as well as the National Association of Muslim Lawyers and the Auxiliary Board of the Chicago Legal Clinic, but does not mention a CAIR link. It also shows him is a 2007 Fellow of Leadership Greater Chicago and has previously served as president of the Muslim Bar Association of Chicago.[7] References
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