Mohamed Magid

Sheikh Mohamed Magid (born 1965 in Sudan ) is an American personality of Islam in the United States of Sudanese origin. Since 2010, he has been President of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the largest umbrella organization for Muslims in North America, as the successor to Ingrid Mattson . He was succeeded in this position in 2014 by Azhar Azeez . Mohamed Magid is the executive director and imam of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) in the Washington Metropolitan Area .

biography

Mohamed Magid was born in northern Sudan in 1965. Magid's father is blamed for the Christian genocide in Sudan, according to the Conservative Review website . In 1987 Mohamed Magid emigrated to the United States, where he took university courses in psychology and family counseling, and taught Koran courses at Howard University in Washington, DC. He received his religious training in various Islamic disciplines as a resident scholar at the Al-Medina Institute . In 1997, Magid Imam of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) in Sterling ( Virginia ). In 2011, Magid was appointed by US President Brack Obama to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) working group on combating violent extremism , which is equivalent to a Home Office. As early as 2009 he was included in a “List of the 500 Most Influential Muslims” of the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center in Jordan and the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding in Washington, DC . He advocates youth and women and is named as a member of the FBI's Muslim, Sikh, and Arab Advisory Committee on Muslims, Sikhs and Arabs . In 2010 Washingtonian Magazine named Magid one of the ten Washingtoners of the Year for outstanding leadership skills, particularly for his efforts to build interfaith bridges. He is involved in the Muslim-Jewish dialogue. He was one of the signatories of the open letter to al-Baghdadi . Globalmbwatch.com notes that both ISNA and ADAMS are part of the US Muslim Brotherhood and:

"Imam Magid can be seen as the new more moderate face that ISNA has been cultivating of late and he has taken part in frequent interfaith events including visits to concentration camp sites in Europe."

Fonts

(as co-author):

• Before You Tie the Knot: A Guide for Couples
• Reflections on the Quran
• Change From Within

literature

• Lincoln Schatz: The Network: Portrait Conversations. 2012 ( partial online view )
• Juliane Hammer: Peaceful Families: American Muslim Efforts against Domestic Violence. 2019 ( partial online view)

See also

• Holy Land Foundation (English)

Web links

• centerforsecuritypolicy.org: Faith Leaders For America Denounce Imam Mohamed Magid; Call On President Trump To Designate Magid's Terrorist Muslim Brotherhood
• muslimjewishadvocacy.org: Imam Mohamed Magid
• Mohamed Magid: A Portrait Of An American Imam (By Jaweed Kaleem)
• Imam Mohamed Magid
• ushmm.org: Imam Mohamed Magid
• crdc.gmu.edu
• jpost.com
• conservativereview.com: Turkish Islamic leader inaugurates largest mosque complex in US
• Imam Mohamed Magid
• themuslim500.com: Imam Mohammed Majid
• discoverthenetworks.org
• FBI's Muslim, Sikh, and Arab Advisory Committee
• Imam of entity tied to Holy Land case to speak at the US State Department summit

Individual evidence

1. ↑ conservativereview.com - accessed on November 1, 2019 ("[...] Magid's father is the Grand Mufti of Sudan responsible for the Christian genocide [...]")
2. ↑ discoverthenetworks.org - accessed November 1, 2019
3. ↑ Its headquarters are in Duluth , Georgia, USA, cf. madinainstitute.com .
4. ↑ Imam Mohamed Magid - accessed November 1, 2019
5. ↑ ^{a b} conservativereview.com - accessed November 1, 2019
6. ^ The Muslim 500 (2010: 124) ; The Muslim 500 (2019: 191)
7. ↑ globalmbwatch.com - accessed November 1, 2019