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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 276 

Recognizing American Muslims’ history and contributions to our Nation. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 1, 2019 

Ms. JUDY CHU of California (for herself, Ms. NORTON, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. 

SWALWELL of California, Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Mrs. LAWRENCE, Mr. 

KHANNA, Mr. CORREA, Mr. BEYER, Mr. RYAN, Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI, 

Ms. JAYAPAL, Ms. SA ́NCHEZ, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. CARSON of Indiana, and 

Ms. OMAR) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 

Committee on Oversight and 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 


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more than 5,000 Muslims currently serving in the Armed 

Forces and many Muslims having made the ultimate sacrifice 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 American Muslims have and continue to make important contributions to the advancement of our Nation 

that are fundamental to our shared American values, society, and culture, including— 

(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 the 

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 

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holders of the second chartered bank in America, the Columbia Bank; 

(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 11th 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. Intisar A. Rabb, Professor of Law at Harvard Law 

School and a director of its Islamic Legal Studies Program, Asifa Quraishi-Landes, comparative law expert at 

the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Zareena 

Grewal, American studies and religious studies scholar at 

Yale University; 

(7) health professionals like Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni, 

director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Heather 

Laird-Johnson, Founder, President, and Director of the 

Center for Muslim Mental Health and Islamic Psychology 

at the University of Southern California, and Dr. Zehra 

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served populations including homeless individuals, immigrants, and those without health insurance; 

(8) Olympic medalists like boxer Muhammad Ali, 

track and field athlete Dalilah Muhammad, and fencer 

Ibtihaj Muhammad; 

(9) professional athletes like basketball players 

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Hakeem Olajuwon, and Shaquille 

O’Neal, football players like Muhammad Wilkerson, 

Ameer Abdullah, brothers Husain and Hamza Abdullah, 

and two-time world heavyweight champion Hasim Shariff 

Rahman; 

(10) religious leaders like African-American Muslim 

imam, civil rights activist and reformer Hajj Malik El 

Shabazz, also known as Malcolm X; 

(11) 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, and, in 1992, was the first American Muslim 

to deliver the invocation for the Senate; 

(12) 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 United States Ambassador to Afghanistan from 2003–2005, Iraq from 2005–2007, and 

the United Nations from 2007–2009, and Adam Shakoor, the first Muslim judge in the country; 

(13) elected officials like Indiana Congressman 

Andre ́ Carson, Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, 

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torney General Keith Ellison, Virginia State representative Sam Rasoul, Pennsylvania State representative 

Movita Johnson-Harrell, and local council members, including Aisha Wahab from Hayward, California, Susan 

Dabaja of Dearborn, Michigan, Shahid Shafi of 

Southlake, Texas, and Basheer Jones from Cleveland, 

Ohio; 

(14) 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 

Zara (Iman) Mohamed Abdulmajid, hair and spa care 

business magnate Farouk Shami, Chobani Greek Yogurt 

founder, chairman, and CEO, Hamdi Ulukaya, and Dr. 

Mark Humayun, who co-invented Argus series retina implants; and 

(15) entertainers like actor and comedian Hasan 

Minaj, rapper Lupe Fiasco, the first Muslim actor to win 

an Oscar, Mahershala Ali, the creator of Mr. Robot, Sam 

Esmail, and comedian and actor Maysoon Zayid: Now, 

therefore, be it 

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

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