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D A I S Y K H A N
Executive Director Women's Islam Initiative In Spirituality and Equality (WISE)
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Daisy Khan is an award-winning speaker, author, activist, commentator, and the founder of Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality (WISE), the largest global network of Muslim women committed to peacebuilding, gender equality, and human dignity.
Formerly, Khan served as Executive Director of American Society for Muslim Advancement for eighteen years, where she was hailed as a bridge builder for promoting cultural and religious harmony through groundbreaking intra faith programs like Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow and inter-faith arts programs like Same Difference, Cordoba Bread Fest. In her grassroots efforts to combat anti-Muslim bias she created “Today, I am a Muslim Too Rally with 100 Interfaith organizations. When Khan saw an unprecedented rise in violent extremism causing intense scrutiny and distrust of Muslims she published WISE Up, Knowledge ends Extremism in collaboration with 72 authors to develop narratives of peace by creating a counter-momentum to the rise in hateful rhetoric.
Khan believes that women’s leadership is essential to solving societal issues. “we need to remove structural barriers to Muslim women’s leadership, to enable them to use their resolve, passion and humility to bring societies into greatness.” She founded the first global Muslim women’s Shura (advisory) Council to amplify Muslim women’s scholarship. The Council uses an egalitarian interpretation of scripture to publish position papers against issues such as child marriage, domestic violence, female genital mutilation, and many others.
Khan lectures in the US and internationally on numerous topics; Muslim women, Islam in America, Islamophobia, and extremism. Her audiences are varied: prestigious think tanks like CFR, universities, congregations and women’s and youth groups. Recognized as a global think tank thought leader, Khan has been featured in powerful periodicals such as Time Magazine Guardian, Newsweek, and The New York Times and appears regularly on TV outlets like CNN, Al Jazeera, BBC. As advisor, she has appeared in documentaries like PBS’s Three Faiths, One God, Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet, and National Geographic’s Inside Mecca.
Her memoir, Born with Wings (2018) depicts her spiritual journey as a modern Muslim woman and her circuitous path to leadership. She is a recipient of two dozen awards and honors including the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award, Edinburgh Peace Award, Interfaith Center’s Award for Promoting Peace. More Magazine described her as “a Link between Moderate Islam and the West,” Women’s E-News named her “21 women of the 21st century” and Glamour Magazine listed her among “7 Women You Must Follow on Twitter.” Listed among Time magazine 100 Most Influential People she was ranked among the “Top Ten Women Faith leaders” by The Huffington Post.
Born in Kashmir, she spent twenty-five years as an interior architect for various Fortune 500 companies. In 2005, she dedicated herself to full-time community service and building movements for positive change, both in the United States and around the globe.
To learn more about Daisy’s memoir, Born With Wings, visit https://www.daisykhan.com/books
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Media Advisory: Leading American Muslims and Jews have joined in an unprecedented “Call for Shalom, Salaam, Peace” from the bloodshed in Israel and Palestine.
They deplore the violence carried out by Hamas and Israel, criticize the “disproportionate response” of the state of Israel, and call on President Biden to act with “far more energy” for peace. They describe the occupation and siege of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem and the displacement of Palestinians from their homes as the root cause of the present explosion, together with the religious affront of a police attack on Al Aqsa mosque on one of the holiest moments in the Muslim calenda
The text of the Call and present signatures follow. Signatures continue to arrive.
For additional comment, call --
Daisy Khan, Executive Director, Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality, at 212-870-2550
Adem Carroll, of the Flushing Interfaith Council and Faith Coalition Against Genocide, at 646-251-0402
Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Ph.D., Executive Director, The Shalom Center, at 215-844-8494 and 215-805-5283.
A MUSLIM AND JEWISH CALL FOR SHALOM, SALAAM, PEACE
IN JERUSALEM, ISRAEL, AND PALESTINE
May 13, 2021; 2 Sivan, 5781; 2 Shawwal, 1442
On the occasion of the Islamic Holy Day of Eid and as we approach the Jewish Holy Day of Shavuot, the Muslim and Jewish communities must both deplore the violence between Israel and Palestine and note the disproportionate response of the state of Israel, beginning with the attack on the Al Aqsa mosque on Laylat al Qadr,one of the holiest nights of the year.
Some Israeli extremists continue to advocate for Israeli seizure and destruction of this holy site. Though their numbers are small, it is as if small numbers of people were known to be planning for destruction on Easter Sunday of St. Peter’s in Vatican City, or on Yom Kippur of the Western Wall so sacred to Jews, or on July 4 of the US Capitol together with the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, even if no one were to be killed – most unlikely in all four cases.
Given the intense devotion to this place, one of the most important sites in the Muslim world, and given the constant anxiety caused by the known threats to it, the actual attack was extremely provocative. We must question the motivation, the timing, and the necessity.
And we mourn the loss of lives, all sacred. We plead with our co-religionists in Israel and Palestine, and world-wide, to return to the shared vision of Jerusalem as a Holy City, one that reflects vision, light, hope, compassion and peace, and reflects the profound dignity and value of all humans as Images of the Holy One.
We ask both governmental leaders and private citizens, those with power and those in the street, to do everything in their power to de-escalate the conflict and further calm, to protect life and limb, restore the safety of all, and prevent any damage to the sacred sites of all.
Injustices and inequalities feed this conflict. Though we deplore the rockets from Gaza as we deplore the Israeli bombing, the most immediate crisis in Jerusalem has its roots in the continuing military occupation and siege of lands that comprise the necessary aspirations of the Palestinian people -- East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza – and the constant forcible pressure to replace Palestinian residents of these lands with settlers who often act oppressively, with military and police protection.There may be several different ways to end this unjust occupation and to protect the safety of all who live in the region. So long as it continues, crisis after crisis, bloodshed after bloodshed, will be its consequences.
For there can be no true security without justice. Nor will there be peace without justice, only pacification based on force. Though many feel that the US has not maintained its neutrality as an honest broker in this ongoing conflict, President Biden should far more energetically promote a peace process both in Israel and Palestine, meanwhile responding to the concerns of the international community. The US Government has so far seemed unable or unwilling to confront the settlement movement that has played such a destabilizing role in Israel as well as Palestine.
Our own spiritual and religious communities throughout the world are deeply affected by what our communities in Israel and Palestine do. The vision of the ancient Hebrew Prophets and of the Prophet Muhammed, peace be upon them all, of a world of peace and justice – and the shape of a Jewish People and Islam struggling to carry out those visions today – will be deeply compromised by injustice and violence committed in their names.
Blessed be the peacemakers. On this occasion, we affirm that our shared religious and moral values require an embrace of peace and justice, especially when our views and perspectives differ. The other alternative is oppression and conflict without end.
Signed (Institutions cited for identification only):
- Imam Shamsi Ali, Director, Jamaica Muslim Center, NY, and
- President, Nusantara Foundation USA
- Sheikh Fadel Al Sahlani, Al Khoei Foundation
- Emad Al Turk, Chairman/Co-founder, International Museum of Muslim Cultures
- Rabbi Phyllis Berman, Mashpia in the ALEPH Hashpa'ah Program
- Abdul Aziz Bhuiyan, Chairman, Hillside Islamic Center
- Adem Carroll, Flushing Interfaith Council, Faith Coalition Against Genocide
- Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- Rabbi Michael Feinberg, Executive Directorl Greater New York Labor-
- Religion Coalition
- Rabbi Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer, Founding Director, Multifaith Studies and Initiatives
- Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
- Sahar Hussain, Interfaith Institute of Long Island
- Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana Ph.D., School of InternationalService, American
University - Daisy Khan, Executive Director, Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality
- Imam Faizul Khan, Islamic Society of Greater Washington Area
- Amin Khwaja, President, Islamic Center of Long Island
- Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, Congregation Beth Simchat Torah
- Khalid S. Lateef, Author, Member of the Long Island Multi-Faith Forum.
- Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor, Tikkun
- Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, President Emeritus, The Shalom Center
- Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid, Founder, Soundvision, Muslim Network TV and Justice for All
- Ibrahim Negm, Senior advisor to the Grand Mufti of Egypt and Secretary
- General, Fatwa Authorities Worldwide
- Rabbi Jeffrey Roth, Executive Director, The Awakened Heart Project for
- Contemplative Judaism
- Dr. Muzammil H. Siddiqi, Imam and Religious Director, The Islamic Society of Orange County, Garden Grove, California
- Dr. Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, Ph.D. National Council of Elders
- Rabbi David Teutsch, Professor Emeritus, Reconstructionist Rabbbinical College
- Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Ph.D., Executive Director, The Shalom Center
- Rabbi Elyse Wechterman, Executive Director, Reconstructionist Rabbbinical Assn
- Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg
- Okolo Rashid, President/Co-founder, International Museum of Muslim Cultures
- Hafiz Rehman, Trustee Masjid Darul Quran, Bayshore. LI
- Rabbi Simkha Weintraub, LCSW, Co-Founder, Truah: Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
- Rabbi Shawn Zevit, Congregation Mishkan Shalom
- Ani Zonneveld, Muslims for Progressive Values
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- Instagram: @WISE_MuslimWomen
- Twitter: @WISE_Leaders
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