Director of Muslim American Society Calls on American Muslims to Vote to Influence Foreign Policy

In a Friday, June 17, 2022 sermon at the Mosque Foundation in Bridgeview, Illinois, Oussama Jammal, who serves as the director of the Muslim American Society (MAS) and as the Secretary-General of the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations, said that voting is the jihad and weapon of Muslims in America. He called on American Muslims to vote in order to influence foreign policy, and he argued that if Muslims are “strong voters” they can influence Congress to pay money to refugees created by American foreign policy. {snip}

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Oussama Jammal: “The most money that comes to Islamophobia in this country, my brothers and sisters, comes from Muslim countries. {snip}

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“This is our jihad, our weapon is our vote. That is what we are going to fight with.

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“When you are good voters, strong voters, you can demand that Congress put money for those whom they have caused to be refugees and those whom they caused to flee their own countries because of this false and faulty foreign policy that they have conducted in the Middle East and all over the Muslim world.

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“Our fight, as I said, and our Jihad, is our political involvement. Our weapon in our vote. If you do not vote you are helping the enemies against your own. You are contributing to the death and destruction overseas.”