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115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 869 

Recognizing American Muslims’ history and contributions to our Nation. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 3, 2018 

Ms. JUDY CHU of California submitted the following resolution; which was 

referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 

RESOLUTION 

Recognizing American Muslims’ history and contributions to 

our Nation. 

Whereas the millions of American Muslims, immigrant and 

native born, comprise two percent of the total population 

of the United States, and have built a vibrant community 

of diverse races, ethnicities, viewpoints, and backgrounds; 

Whereas many African slaves brought to the Americas, including the American colonies, later known as the United 

States of America, were Muslim, and made innumerable 

contributions to the founding of our Nation; 

Whereas American Muslims have long served in the Nation’s 

Armed Forces and fought in all major United States conflicts, from the Revolutionary War to present day, with 

more than 5,000 Muslims currently serving in the Armed 

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rifice for the United States, including Army Corporal 

Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan (1987–2007), and Army 

Captain Humayun Saqib Muazzam Khan (1976–2004); 

Whereas countless American Muslims contribute to our Nation’s economy and well-being as physicians, business 

owners, laborers, service workers, teachers engaging the 

next generation of Americans, and police officers, firefighters, and first responders saving lives every day; and 

Whereas some of the important contributions of American 

Muslims in the advancement of our Nation and fundamental to our shared American values, society, and culture, include— 

(1) military veterans like Revolutionary War Virginian Corporal Bampett Muhamed, Yusuf Ben Ali (also 

known as Joseph Benhaley), who served in George Washington’s army and fought with General Thomas Sumter 

in South Carolina, Civil War Union Captain Moses 

Osman who was the highest-ranking Muslim in that War, 

World War II Army Corporal Sheikh Nazim AbdulKariem, who served in the Battle of Normandy and Battle of the Bulge, Army Sergeant First Class and Korean 

war prisoner of war Mujahid Mohammed, retired Chief 

Master Sergeant of the United States Air Force Talib M. 

Shareef, who now serves as Imam at the Nation’s 

Mosque in Washington, DC, and the countless other 

American Muslims who served valiantly in the First and 

Second World Wars, the Korean and Vietnam wars, and 

most recent conflicts; 

(2) Yarrow Mamout, the freed African-American 

Muslim slave who later became one of the first shareholders of the second chartered bank in America, the Columbia Bank; 


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(3) famed architect and designer Fazlur Rahman 

Khan, who designed the Sears Tower and the John Hancock Center; 

(4) Mohammad Salman Hamdani, the New York 

City Police Department cadet and Emergency Medical 

Technician who heroically died helping others in the 

aftermath of the September 11 attacks on the World 

Trade Center; 

(5) Dr. Farouk El-Baz, geologist and remote sensing 

scientist who, as Secretary of the Landing Site Selection 

Committee for the Apollo missions, Principal Investigator 

of Visual Observations and Photography, and Chairman 

of the Astronaut Training Group of the Apollo Photo 

Team (1967–1972), was instrumental in helping NASA 

identify the landing sites on the Moon for the Apollo program; 

(6) noted academics and researchers like Dr. 

Sulayman S. Nyang, professor and former chairman of 

the African Studies Department at Howard University, 

Dr. Ayub K. Ommaya, former Chief of Neurosurgery at 

the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and 

Stroke at the National Institute of Health, Dr. Intisar A. 

Rabb, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a 

director of its Islamic Legal Studies Program, and Dalia 

Mogahed, Obama administration appointee to the Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and Director of Research at Institute for Social 

Policy and Understanding; 

(7) Olympic medalists like boxer Muhammad Ali, 

track and field athlete Dalilah Muhammad, and fencer 

Ibtihaj Muhammad; 

(8) professional athletes like basketball players 

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Hakeem Olajuwon, and Shaquille 


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O’Neal, football players like Muhammad Wilkerson, 

Ameer Abdullah, brothers Husain and Hamza Abdullah, 

and two-time world heavyweight champion Hasim Shariff 

Rahman; 

(9) religious leaders like African-American Muslim 

imam, civil rights activist, and reformer Hajj Malik El 

Shabazz, also known as Malcolm X, and Imam Warith 

Deen Mohammed (born Wallace D. Muhammad), referred to by many as America’s Imam, an African-American Muslim leader and theologian who worked tirelessly 

to unite the diverse Muslim community and nation, who, 

in 1992, was the first American Muslim to deliver the invocation for the United States Senate; 

(10) public servants like Dr. Ahmed Hassan Zewail, 

who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry and was a Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology 

member, former Deputy Director of the United States 

National Security Council and Nixon administration advisor Dr. Robert (Farooq) D. Crane, and Zalmay 

Khalilzad, who served as the Ambassador to Afghanistan 

from 2003–2005, Iraq from 2005–2007, and United Nations from 2007–2009; 

(11) elected officials like former North Carolina 

State Senator Larry Shaw, Virginia State Representative 

Sam Rasoul, Minnesota State Representative Ilhan 

Omar, Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison, and Indiana Congressman Andre Carson; and 

(12) entrepreneurs and business leaders like Chairman, CEO, and President of Ethan Allen Interiors Inc. 

Farooq Kathwari, National Football League Jacksonville 

Jaguars owner and business tycoon Shahid Khan, Islamic 

fashion designer and Verona Collection company founder 

Lisa Vogl, founder of Iman Cosmetics and philanthropist 


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Zara (Iman) Mohamed Abdulmajid, hair and spa care 

business magnate Farouk Shami, and Chobani Greek Yogurt founder, Chairman, and CEO Hamdi Ulukaya: Now, 

therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives recog2 nizes the historic and valuable contributions by the Amer3 ican Muslim community to the United States of America. 

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