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American Muslim Alliance http://www.amaweb.org American Muslim Alliance (AMA) was founded in 1994 to provide civic education and leadership training to American Muslims. and Ph.D.

Civic Education, Participation, & Leadership Training for the American Muslim community in mainstream public affairs, civic discourse and party politics all across the United States. AMA is a national political organization and at one time had at least 101 chapters in 31 states and was started with the goal of electing 2,000 Muslims to offices across the United States. Dr. Agha Saeed is the Founder and former Chairman of American Muslim Alliance and a retired lecturer in the Program in Asian Studies at California State University, East Bay. Dr. Saeed earned his B.A. in Political Science from University of Punjab, Pakistan and M.A. in Rhetoric from University of California at Berkeley. He was also an exchange scholar at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Dr. Saeed is the former Coordinator, American Muslim Task Force on Civil Rights and Elections and Coordinator, California Civil Rights Alliance that he held a number of years since 2003. He was also Founder and President of the Pakistan American Democratic Forum from 1982 to 2003 and Founder and Chair, American Muslim Political Coordination Council from 1998–2001. Dr. Agha Saeed spearheaded the campaign against the USA Patriot Act that led to the California State Resolution SJR10 against the USA Patriot act. In 2000 and 2004, Dr. Saeed was strategic force behind the creation of a first and second Muslim Bloc vote. Dr Saeed was also the producer and host of Global Forum TV which focused on examining major world issues from a Muslim perspective.

10/23/2026

"Running for office should invite scrutiny of a candidate’s fitness to govern—not a trial over whether they belong in America."

10/22/2026

Muslim politicians like Ilhan Omar, Abdul El-Sayed, and Zohran Mamdani have faced attacks that frame their religion and identity as threats to American democracy.

While Republicans have weaponized Islamophobia on the campaign trail, Democrats have often failed to confront it — and sometimes reinforced it under the guise of concerns about “electability.”

But research shows Muslim candidates face significant electoral disadvantages simply because of their religion. So why aren't Democrats talking about it?

Read Astead Herndon’s newsletter The Midterms, Actually: https://www.vox.com/politics/507163/midterms-actually-islamophobia-omar-elsayed?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=app.dashsocial.com%2Fvoxdotcom%2Flibrary%2Fmedia%2F736904629

📸: Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images

10/20/2026

Ilhan Omar is exactly the opposite of the racist stereotypes Donald Trump traffics in — and that’s what makes her a target, Amanda Marcotte argues.

Homeland Security officials raided the Minnesota congresswoman’s home Monday as part of an effort to prove a years-old conspiracy theory that she and her family falsified documents to obtain her U.S. citizenship when she was 17. Immigration officials pursued the same allegations during Trump’s first term but found “insufficient evidence of wrongdoing” and “eventually abandoned” the search, The Washington Post reported.

“Unlike Trump, who grew up a spoiled rich kid in Queens, Omar has overcome steep odds to be where she is,” Marcotte writes. Omar fled war-torn Somalia at eight years old and spent four years in a refugee camp in Kenya. “Whatever one’s views of her politics, there can be no denying that everything Omar has attained, from her education to her career, has been earned against high odds.”

Trump’s attack on Omar is reminiscent of the birther lie he promoted about Barack Obama in 2011 while hosting “The Apprentice.” As Marcotte writes, Obama revealed the insecurities of future MAGA followers by “disproving their hopes that whiteness confers an excellence that they, on their own merits, could never produce.”

“For MAGA, the fear of immigration is not about feeling contaminated, but being shown up and exposed as mediocrities in comparison to industrious newcomers.”

Read Marcotte on the real reason MAGA fears Ilhan Omar: bit.ly/3TKUoie

10/18/2026

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