American Muslim Council
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The American Muslim Council (AMC) was an Islamic organization and registered charity in the United States.
History
The organization was founded in 1990 by Abdul Rahman al-Amoudi with the support of the Muslim Brotherhood.<ref name="Post">Template:Cite news</ref> Al-Amoudi formerly led the Islamic Society of Boston. <ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
AMC took part in the defense of South Florida Professor and Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami Al-Arian and questioned the US government's allegation that the professor took part in terrorist activities.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> AMC produced a pamphlet in which it said that "the FBI has a history of harassing and harming minority and immigrant communities".<ref name="nr">Template:Cite news</ref> On March 2, 2006, Al-Arian entered a guilty plea to a charge of conspiracy to help the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a "specially designated terrorist" organization.<ref name="plea">Template:Cite web</ref> Al-Arian was sentenced to 57 months in prison, and ordered deported following his prison term.<ref name="Laughlin-plea">MegLaughlin, In his plea deal, what did Sami Al-Arian admit to?, St. Petersburg Times, April 23, 2006.</ref>
AMC was also a member of the American Muslim Political Coordination Council (AMPCC), along with the American Muslim Alliance (AMA), Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). AMPCC's primary concern is to coordinate the member organizations on activism and lobbying.<ref>Arab-American faces and voices: the origins of an immigrant community, p. 261, Elizabeth Boosahda, University of Texas Press, 2003, Template:ISBN, 9780292709201, accessed November 30, 2009</ref>
The AMC went defunct in 2003. A separate, more moderate organization operating under the same name later began operations out of Chicago, Illinois.<ref name="Post" />
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