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Organization's Own Description:
Muslim Legal Fund of America is a charity that funds legal work and programs to defend Muslims against injustice in American courtrooms, prisons, and communities. Muslim Legal Fund of America is the ONLY national tax-exempt nonprofit legal fund dedicated to defending Muslims’ civil rights and civil liberties in American courtrooms.
Mission: To defend constitutional rights for Muslims in America
Vision: An America in which Muslims are treated as equal under the law in all aspects of life.
What are MLFA's Core Beliefs?
The U.S. Bill of Rights applies to Muslims in America.
Muslims have the right to fair trials.
Being Muslim should not make you a suspect or target of law enforcement agencies.
Injustice against one is an injustice against all.
Without justice, there is no freedom or liberty.
What is happening to Muslims in America?
Unjust prosecutions and unfair trials
Excessive sentences for Muslim prisoners
Cruel prison conditions applied to Muslims
Informants targeting vulnerable youth
Muslims being intimidated into betraying their faith
What are the Principles that Guide MLFA's Work?
Islam came to establish justice between people.
As Muslims, we have a religious obligation to support and promote justice.
As a community, we need to work together and pool our collective resources to make the greatest, positive impact on the state of justice for Muslims in America.
Religious freedom means being able to openly express your religious identity without fear of negative legal or social consequences.
As an organization, MLFA and its supporters are fulfilling the religious obligation to defend the principles of justice that make Islam a beautiful religion and America a great nation.
What does MLFA do to Fulfill its Mission?
Funds legal cases that have potential impact on the status of freedom for Muslims in America.
Issues grants for projects that increase the legal community’s capacity to defend justice in issues of concern to the Muslim community.
Conducts informational programs in hundreds of community centers across the nation to spread awareness of specific issues and cases impacting the Muslim community in America.
The National Legal Fund Concept
The Muslim Legal Fund of America provides funding for cases impacting the civil rights and liberties of Muslims in America. A charitable legal fund may be a new concept for some donors, but it operates much in the same way a humanitarian aid organization operates. Where humanitarian aid organizations take donations and turn those funds into food, shelter, education and healthcare, a charitable legal fund turns donations into legal services for select cases with potential civil liberties impact. This is sometimes referred to as impact litigation.
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