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2017 Muslims For Peace
Awards Recepients
Mir Murad Alikhan
Building a Peaceful Community MFP Lifetime Community Service
Mr. Mir Murad Ali Khan was born in Hyderabad, India, and migrated to America in 1969. He is an Electrical Engineer
by education and training and has worked for organizations like OTIS Elevators, South Eastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority and New York Transit.
He has been a beacon to the Muslim society of the
organization dedicated to global abolition of nuclear weapons, a peace economy, and a halt to weapons tra cking.
Prior to his current positions, Rev. Moore was for 3 1⁄2 years the National Secretary of Mobilization for Survival, a nationwide coalition of some 250 organizations working for disarmament and the conversion of resources from military purposes to urgent human needs. Previously, he
served as Assistant Pastor to Luther Place Church in Washington DC.
Rev. Moore is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. H Since his fulltime peacemaking ministry began in 1978, Rev. Moore has played a leadership role in major activities in the US peace movement. He organized a press conference at Three Mile Island the day after the March 1979
nuclear accident, with experts including a Nobel Laureate in Biology, a radiologist, and a physician. The next day, the Governor of Pennsylvania heeded the experts’ call to evacuate pregnant women and children.
He chaired the rst meetings of the Organizing Committee for the largest demonstration in US history, when one million came to New York demanding a Freeze and Reduction of Nuclear Weapons on June 12, 1982. He chaired the NJ Nuclear Weapons Freeze Referendum which in November 1982 received the support of 2/3 of New Jersey’s voters.
In 1993, Rev. Moore and CFPA played a major role in defeating the NRA’s attempt to rescind New Jersey’s Assault Weapons Ban; and in 2002 helped lead passage of the rst in the nation Childproof Handgun Bill into law.
In 1995, under Rev. Moore’s leadership, CFPA pioneered the rst Peace Voter Campaign in the US, with distribution of tens of thousands of Peace Voter Guides. In 1996, CFPA did the rst Peace Voter Signature Ads in newspapers in targeted races, which have since run in over 4 million newspapers in 40 targeted races! In 2000, CFPA did the rst Candidate Brie ngs in the nation. These activities have become a model for peace groups across the country.
NJMVP Team
Building a Peaceful Community MFP Leadership Award
tristate area and is an ardent lover and follower of Ahlulbayt and has associated himself with religious scholars from his youth. He possesses very extensive religious knowledge and has
a gifted memory. He has written several papers on di erent topics of religion and history. His papers are of research quality, and has been compiled into several books. He is one of the founder members of SANA one of the early registered non-pro t Islamic society in America.
Syed Azhar Hussain Abidi
Building a Peaceful Community MFP Peace Award
Syed Azhar Hussain, President and founder of Peace and Education Foundation. The organization have been
courses.
recognized worldwide for deploying innovative and a ective models for peacemaking in the most intractable con ict regions like Pakistan, Afghanistan and Sub-Saharan Africa. His model has been written up as a best-practice and being taught in various international Universities in International Diplomacy and Peace Building
He has served as Senior Consultant to the Government of Mexico’s Ministry of Education and as an adjunct professor at the Tecnológico de Monterrey University in Mexico, where he taught courses on international relations and history and served as a Master Trainer for Mexico Education Ministry. He advises UNDP, UNESCO and UN Alliance for Civilization on Peacebuilding in South Asia.
Mr. Hussain received numerous awards and recognition for his work in 2009 he received an award from UN Alliance for Civilization for his peacebuilding work in Istanbul and in 2006 Peacemakers in Action Award by the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding in New York.
Rev. Robert Moore
Building a Peaceful Community MFP Interfaith Award
Rev. Robert Moore has served since 1981 as full-time Executive Director of the Princeton, NJ-based Coalition for Peace Action (CFPA), a regional
Mahmood Alam Mazhar Alidina Ayaz Aslam Azra Baig
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The New Jersey Muslim Voters Project is a statewide grassroots e ort to empower NJ's large and diverse American-Muslim com- munity in public a airs so that our voices and values are re ected by the leaders who represent us.
NJMVP will do this by: • Increasing our community’s political participation by registering voters and turning them out to the polls. Educating our community on the importance of civic engagement and various methods of political activism.
NJMVP Does Not endorse any Party or an Candidate
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