Abdul Malik Mujahid
[1] Abdul Malik Mujahid has been active in community leadership since his student days, he is the founding president of Sound Vision which was established in 1988 in Chicago.[4] Abdul Malik Mujahid chaired the international 2015 Parliament in Salt Lake City which was attended by 11,000 people from 50 religions and 80 countries.[8] He also served on the independent task force of The Chicago Council on Global Affairs on the civic and political integration of Muslim Americans.[3] He has been a major supporter of the undocumented workers' movement, speaking and leading one of the largest marches in Chicago history for immigration rights.He successfully led efforts in collaboration with the National Organization for Women (NOW) to declare rape as a war crime in the international law for the first time in human history.[14] Mujahid also chairs a coalition, Burma Task Force, USA, that reaches out to media and community stakeholders, US policymakers and international NGOs and human rights groups to raise awareness of ongoing genocide and persecution.[18] The Nobel Laureates included Desmond Tutu from South Africa, Mairead Maguire from Ireland, Jody Williams from the US, Tawakkol Karman from Yemen, Shirin Ebadi from Iran, Leymah Gbowee from Liberia and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel from Argentina.[21] Mujahid developed a friendship with Muhammad Ali after meeting him at a reception given by the Mayor of Chicago in 1977 in honor of Imam Warith Deen Mohammed.[citation needed] Imam Mujahid has consistently challenged the extremists' perspectives through critiques rooted in Islamic sources.[54] While the ISIS Sucks campaign was billboard based it was also accompanied by supporting booklets written by Mujahid and produced by Sound Vision.Mujahid joined the National Council of Churches in asking President Bush to commit to "draw back from the use and threat of 'first strike' war.[61][62] Mujahid was also a signatory of a joint statement by religious leaders, parliamentarians and mayors on the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing s calling for a nuclear free world.[69] Since Mujahid considers war-terror-hate a connected destructive cycle, he has organized training sessions for Muslim Peace Coalition to combat Islamophobia in Berkeley, CA and Long Island, NY.