Title: Recognizing American Muslims' history and contributions to our Nation.
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

Summary:
Recognizes the historic and valuable contributions by the American Muslim community to the United States.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 869 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 869

 Recognizing American Muslims' history and contributions to our Nation.


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                    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

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                               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 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 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 Abdul-Kariem, 
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;

    (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 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 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

    Resolved, That the House of Representatives recognizes the historic 
and valuable contributions by the American Muslim community to the 
United States of America.
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