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I am writing to you today to ask for your financial support.  Please make a donation today or renew your membership to help support CSID's mission, projects, and activities.  As a non-profit (501-c-3) organization, CSID relies heavily on your individual support and contributions to implement many of its activities both in the United States and overseas.  I am asking you to please consider making a donation of $50, $100, $300, or whatever you can afford to help support and sustain CSID.  For 11 years now, CSID has been on the leading edge of advocating for democracy in the Muslim World, and for advocating for improved relations and understanding between the US and the Muslim World.  We have achieved a lot, but the challenges remain very large.  Extremists on both sides (Muslim, Christian, and Jewish) continue to advocate for another religious war that will annihilate civilization as we know it.  Even in the United States, long known for its tolerance and diversity, Christian and Jewish extremist voices are demonizing Islam and the majority of Americans (57% according to a recent poll) are afraid of Islam and believe that Islam supports violence.  If we do not wake up soon and address this growing threat, we might soon wake up with an Islamophobic administration governed by right wing extremists.  Similar threats exist in the Muslim World, where a silent majority continues to be dominated by a minority of extremists and oppressive dictators who steal the resources and the future of millions of citizens.  CSID has been at the forefront of the struggle against extremism and a strong voice for tolerance, dialogue, and peaceful coexistence, but we cannot succeed without your help and support.  Please make a donation or renew your membership today (either online or by mail) and help to make a difference for a better and brighter future for all of us.

As an example, of what CSID has done recently to bridge the gap, please take a look at the CSID 11th Annual Conference.  Over 250 people from all the major governmental and non-governmental institutions and think tanks, and 32 speakers - experts, policymakers, and activists - from 15 countries participated in the conference.  A detailed report is included here, but you can now view photos of the conference here and here, and you may view video recordings of all the sessions here.

The CSID Weekly E-mail Bulletin is sent once a week to 27,500 activists, scholars, experts, politicians, and religious leaders all over the world.  Please forward it to all your friends, and ask them to subscribe.  It is FREE, and it will keep you and them informed of major developments in the struggle for freedom, human rights, and democracy.

We look forward to hearing from you and to receiving your support (with whatever you can afford in these difficult and challenging economies).

And please pray for peace and understanding.

Sincerely,

Dr. Radwan A. Masmoudi
President of CSID




About CSID


By supporting CSID, you help to:
  • Create a better future for our children so they can have more opportunities for improving their lives and realizing their dreams.
  • Educate and inform Americans about Islam's true values of tolerance, peace, and good will towards mankind, including peoples of other faiths.
  • Improve U.S. relations with the Muslim world by supporting popular movements rather than oppressive tyrannies and corrupt regimes.
  • Replace the feelings of hopelessness, despair, and anger in many parts of the Muslim world, especially among the youth, with a more positive and hopeful outlook for the future.
  • Encourage young Muslim Americans, and Muslims everywhere, to participate in the political process and to reject calls for destructive violence and extremism.
  • Build a network of Muslim democrats around the globe who can share knowledge and experience about how to build and strengthen democratic institutions and traditions in the Muslim countries.


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Please donate generously. Your contribution to CSID is both tax-deductible, and zakat-eligible. Your contribution will make a world of difference.

The Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy is a non-profit think tank, based in Washington DC - dedicated to promoting a better understanding of democracy in the Muslim world, and a better understanding of Islam in America. To achieve its objectives, the Center organizes meetings, conferences, and publishes several reports and periodicals. CSID engages Muslim groups, parties, and governments - both secularist and moderate Islamist - in public debates on how to reconcile Muslims' interpretation of Islam and democracy.  CSID is committed to providing democracy education to ordinary citizens, civil society, religious and political leaders in the Muslim world, and has organized meetings, workshops, and conferences in over 25 countries, including Nigeria, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Iran, Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, etc.


"In just a few years, CSID has done remarkable work in facilitating the vital discussion about Islam and democracy in the United States and beyond. In so doing it has made an invaluable contribution to breaking down prejudice and misunderstanding and to meeting the crucial challenge of advancing human rights and democracy in the Muslim world."

                               Neil Hicks, Director
                               Human Rights Defenders Program


"The Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID) plays an absolutely vital role in creating a platform for the voices of democracy and reform throughout the Muslim World. Equally vital is the role they play in bringing a better understanding of the diversity within Islam to the people of America. CSID's advocacy of Islamic values coupled with democratic principles needs and merits our support."                     

                              John D. Sullivan, Executive Director
                             
Center for International Private Enterprise

"CSID's role is crucial in Muslim societies and in the West. It is instrumental in contextualizing democracy in Muslim societies by underscoring the areas where Islam values and democratic principles meet. The CSID also bridges this arbitrary and unnecessary gap between the Muslim democrats and the secular democrats, an essential step for making the establishment of democracy and effective participatory systems a mainstream quest. Further, the CSID's role in the US is equally important in presenting the moderate, tolerant and pluralistic nature of Islam."


                              Emad El-Din Shahin, Professor
                              University of Notre Dame




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