AMLEOA - American Muslim Law Enforcement Officers Association

Highlighted Events

Annual Ramadhan dinner with appointed Goverment and City officials, Police Chiefs, and others.
Future group Hajj trips and Umrah to the Holy places.
Two annual Family day events, where families meet and build great relationships within our Association.
Two holiday parties. Eid Al-fitr and Eid-Al-adha.
Numerous Trips across the nation to introduce Association to the public and various Law Enforcement agencies. Assist other Law Enforcement agencies in dealing with the Muslim communities.
Numerous seminars speaking in behalf of the Muslim community and Muslims in Law Enforcement. And much more..................

Muslim Officers Sociey-- Attention!! Members Of Service in the NYPD. Muslim Officers Society meetings are scheduled on the last wednesday of each month. For more information and want to Join contact Detective Nassser 718.998.1549 or Detective Mustafa at 646-648-3944 or via email at MOS@amleoa.net

ALIENS IN AMERICA' TO PREMIER ON OCTOBER 1
http://www.cwtv.com/shows/aliens-in-america/episodes

Justin Tolchuck (Dan Byrd, "The Hills Have Eyes") is a sensitive, lanky 16-year old just trying to make it through the social nightmare of high school in Medora, Wisconsin, with the help of his well-meaning mom Franny (Amy Pietz, "Caroline in the City"), aspiring-entrepreneur dad Gary (Scott Patterson, "Gilmore Girls") and his beautiful and popular younger sister Claire (Lindsey Shaw, "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide").Although he's bright and funny, Justin is also shy, socially awkward and pretty much resigned to the fact that he'll never be one of the cool kids. Franny, however, is the kind of take-charge mom who micro-manages her family, and she's come up with a plan to help Justin: she signs up for the school's international exchange student program. Picturing an athletic, brilliant Nordic teen, Franny is sure this new friendship will bestow instant coolness on her outsider son. However, when the Tolchuck's exchange student arrives, he turns out to be Raja Musharaff (Adhir Kalyan, "Fair City"), a 16-year-old Muslim from a small village in Pakistan. Raja is thoughtful, responsible and wise beyond his years. To the Tolchucks and everyone else in Medora, he's also just about as foreign as a foreigner can be.

A TRAGEDY IN NYC

Rasas Alghaithi's wife past away on October 29, 2007. Our prayers are with her and the rest of the family. May God give them patience. From God we came , and to God we return. Alghaithi's wife and daughters -- Duca, 5, Tuca, 4, Lina, 3, and Afas, 1 -- were critically burned in an apartment building explosion on Saturday October 6, 2007 in Harlem, NYC. We are currently working on setting a donation fund for the family. All those who want to donate please contact as. May God reward you and protect your family from any harm. Amen

Malcolm X - Quotations

"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."

"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today."

"I believe in Islam. I am a Muslim and there is nothing wrong with being a Muslim, nothing wrong with the religion of Islam. It just teaches us to believe in Allah as the God. Those of you who are Christian probably believe in the same God, because I think you believe in the God Who created the universe. That's the One we believe in, the One Who created universe--the only difference being you call Him God and we call Him Allah. The Jews call Him Jehovah. If you could understand Hebrew, you would probably call Him Jehovah too. If you could understand Arabic, you would probably call Him Allah...."

"For the freedom of my 22 million black brothers and sisters here in America, I do believe that I have fought the best that I know how, and the best that I could, with the shortcomings that I have had...I know that societies often have killed people who have helped to change those societies. And if I can die having brought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth that will help destroy the racist cancer that is malignant in the body of America then, all of the credit is due to Allah. Only the mistakes have been mine."

"When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire...or preserve his freedom."

"All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of all the worlds."

Honoring Black History And The African-American Struggle

The members of AMLEOA are honoring black history and reminds all its members to honor their black brothers and sisters struggle for freedom, justice, and equality. The Association also encourages its members to teach their family members, loved ones and friends about black history and the history of Malcolm X who we owe a great debt to. Malcolm X gave his life for us, so that we can have freedom, justice, and equality here in the U.S.A.

"America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem." --El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, MALCOLM X

Recommended Books For You And Your Family

Scattered Pictures: Reflections of an American Muslim by Imam Zaid Shakir

Servants Of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas

by Sylviane A. Diouf

Islam in America by Jane I. smith

Black Pilgrimage to Islam

by Robert Dannin

Muslims in American History

by Jerald F. Dirks

Jesus: Prophet of Islam

by Muhammad Ata Ur-Rahim

They Came before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America

by Ivan Van Sertima

Palestine, Peace Not Apartheid

by President Jimmy Carter

Silent No More by Paul Findly

Prince Among Salves by Terry Alford

Islam and the Abolition of Slavery

by William Gervase Clarence-Smith

Lost History: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers, and Artists by Michael H. Morgan

You can purchase the following books at Amazon www.amazon.com

PAYING TRIBUTE

Yahya S. Muhammad, The Famous Islamic Calligrapher of North America

The "Dean of Muslim- American CalligraphersÃ¢â‚¬ in The United States, Yahya S. Muhammad, returned to God, the week , May 1, 2007/Rabi II 1428 A.H. [may God admit him to His eternal Garden of Peace. Ameen] Sheikh Muhammad, a self-taught Arabic calligrapher, painter, and graphic artist, works were displayed in numerous art galleries and exhibitions over a 30-year career, culminating in exhibitions at The Adam Clayton Powell New York State Office Building, in Harlem, New York, and in a one-man national exhibition at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C.

His expansive and rustic upstate New York studio was a highlighted and frequently visited retreat for fellow artists, friends, art aficionados, as well as international Islamic scholars, as Sheikh Abdullah Adhami of Damascus. Of Native and African -American ancestry, Yahya S. Muhammad's life and art reflected the mosaic Muslim struggle and experience in the United States, couched always in his signature motif of God's mercy, beauty, and singularity.

We are all made poorer by his passing, and we all send our prayers for comfort and patience to his family. Ameen.

Imam Shair Abdul-Mani

Communications Director

A.M.L.E.O.A.

PRINCE AMONG SLAVES THE AMAZING TRUE STORY OF AN AFRICAN PRINCE ENSLAVED IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH http://www.upf.tv/upf06/Home/tabid/223/Default.aspx

Plot Summary

In 1788 the slave ship Africa, set sail from West Africa and headed for America with its berth laden with a profitable but highly perishable cargo-hundreds of men, women and children bound in chains. Six months later the survivors were sold in Natchez, Mississippi. One of them, a 26-year-old man named Abdul-Rahman made a remarkable claim to the farmer who purchased him at the auction that he was an African prince and that his father would pay gold for his ransom. The offer was refused and Abdul-Rahman did not return to Africa for another 40 years. During his enslavement he toiled on the Foster plantation, married, and fathered nine children. His story also eventually made him the most famous African in America, attracting the support of powerful men such as President John Quincy Adams. After forty years of slavery, Abdul-Rahman finally reclaimed his freedom, but he defied the order to return immediately to Africa, and instead traveled throughout the northern states, speaking to huge audiences in a partially successful attempt to raise enough money to buy his children's freedom. Finally at the age of 67, and after raising funds to free two of his children, Abdul-Rahman returned to Africa, only to fall ill and die just as word of his arrival reached his former home of Futa Jalloo in present-day Guinea. Abdul-Rahman survived the harsh ordeals of slavery through his love of family and his deep faith as a Muslim.

UPCOMMING EVENTS FOR 2008

MONTHLY MEETING--Muslim Officers Society July 2, 2008 6:00PM at Masjid Dawood (State Street Mosque)

ANNUAL MEMBERS & FAMILY DINNER NIGHT JULY 10, 2008 6:00 PM at PARADISE EAST CATERING HALL ( 1223 Coney Island Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11230 ) $40 a person. $70 for a couple. $10 a child

American Muslim Day Parade-NYC OCTOBER 12, 2008

Seventh Annual Dinner & Awards Ceremony

Trip to the Poconos-PA. Summer

Pre-Ramadhan Conference 2008 One Police Plaza, NYC with NYPD Police Commissioner and staff.

ELECTIONS 2008 Do your part Get out and Vote. Let Your Voices be heard!!!!!!

And Much More..........................

For Comments,Concerns, Advise, Questions or an Emergency call us at 718-998-1549

Activity Report-2008

January 17, 2008 AMLEOA attends NYC Community Board 5 meeting. The Muslim Day parade and festival is back on track. AMLEOA would like to thank Community Board 5 and its board members for their positive resolution. Muslim Day parade is October 12, 2008. Like always we will be marching in uniform.

January, 18, 2008 - Imam Shair Abdul-Mani, Bahir Mustafa and Jamiel Altaheri visited American Police Beat in Boston. AMLEOA would like to thank American Police Beat and its stafff for inviting us to there headquarters. Also we would like to thank APB for their wonderful hospitality they showed to our members. American Police Beat is the voice of the nation's law enforcement community. Visit American Police Beat www.apbweb.com Subscribe Now !!!!! www.apbweb.com

January 18, 2008 AMLEOA visited the Islamic center of Boston and some of its founders and the chief engineer of the Mosque. May God bless our brothers and sisters in Boston. They have a beautiful community.

January 29, 2008 AMLEOA attends 'Prince Among Slaves' Advanced Film Screening and Panel Discussion Hosted by the Muslim Graduate Student Group at NYU.

January 30, 2008 AMLEOA attends 'Prince Among Slaves' Advanced Film Screening at Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz Memorial and Education Center, Harlem, NYC

February 4, 2008 AMLEOA at Pennsylvania showing support for Philadelphia Police Officer Kimberley Webb. AMLEOA visits CAIR-PA. AMLEOA thanks CAIR's civil rights director Justin Payton for his support and the wonderful work he is doing for the Muslim Community in Philadelphia.

February 16, 2008 Untold Eithiopia: An Islamic Experience. Lecture and presentation by Dr. Abdullah Hakim Quick. We ask Allah to reward him in this life and the hereafter for the hard and dedicated work he has done in revealing and preserving our history.

February 19,2008 AMLEOA attends a lecture and presentation by Dr. Abdullah Hakim Quick on the history of Timbuktu. Schomburg Center, Harlem, NYC

February 21, 2008 AMLEOA attend Guardian's association's commemoration of Black History Month at One Police Plaza, NYPD Police Headquaters.

February 24, 2008 AMLEOA Monthly meeting. Special thanks to our respected brother Mubarak Abdul-Jabbar.

February 25, 2008 AMLEOA attend Lecture and Book Signing With Ingrid Mattson, Ph.D. at Hartford Seminary, CT. Get her book at http://www.hartsem.edu/events/Story_of_Qur'an.html

February 29, 2008 AMLEOA meets Congressman Keith Ellison at Sylvia's restaurant in Harlem, NYC. Special appreciation and thanks to Bill Lynch Associates, LLC for inviting us.

March 3, 2008 AMLEOA-Pennsylvania conference with Muslim Officers. We thank all those who attended and all those who could not attend we hope to see them in the near future. Special thanks to Justin Payton Of CAIR-PA.

March 8, 2008 AMLEOA spend a day at Camp Smith. Jamiel Altaheri (Treasurer), Carlos Maldonado (Member) and a guest (non-member) gave lecture and presentation on Islam and Muslims to U.S. Army personnel at Camp Smith, New York. Special thanks to colonel Marchi , 1st Sergeant Muharaj and Corporal Justin Wesley.

March 22, 2008 1-4 PM. Open Forum with Congressman Keith Ellison at NYU. AMLEOA presents the Honorable congressman an Award of Recognition for his service to the Muslim community.

March 22, 2008 630 PM Eleven members from AMLEOA attend CAIR-NJ's Annual Banquet Dinner

March 31, 2008 Imam Shair Abdul-Mani, Jamiel Altaheri, Bahir Mustafa and Carlos Maldonado attended a meeting with CAIR-NY. AMLEOA and CAIR-NY are both committed in working together for the betterment of the Muslim community in New York.

April 08, 2008 AMLEOA and CAIR-NY have a special meeting with the Office of the District Attorney of Staten Island to discuss how the District Attorneys Office and the Muslim Community can combat and prevent future hate crimes.

April 11, 2008 AMLEOA-NY meeting. AMLEOA-NY will have a Members and Family dinner event on June 2008.

April 12, 2008 AMLEOA attends CAIR-Philadelphia Fundraiser.

April 22, 2008- AMLEOA and CAIR attend special meeting at the Bronx District Attorney's office to discuss hate related crimes occuring in the Muslim Community.

April 29, 2008 AMLEOA-NY meeting in downtown Brooklyn.

May 18, 2008 AMLEOA attends Islamic Relief fundraising event at NYU. visit islamic Relief online at www.islamic-relief.com

May 19, 2008 Muslim Officers Society finally an approved fraternal organization of the NYPD. Signed and Approved by NYPD Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.

May 26, 2008 AMLEOA-NY Meeting. AMLEOA has voted to change and improve its logo. We will have a new logo. Special thanks to those who attended and voted for the new logo.

June 07, 2008 AMLEOA attends CAIR-NY Annual Banquet

June 19, 2008 AMLEOA and the Hon. Chief Ziegler honored at the Muslim Youth center by the Arab American federation and the Muslim community of bayridge.

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