Gul Agha – Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Tahir Ali – first Pakistani American elected as a National delegate-at-large (R) from Massachusetts, 1992[20]
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Nihad Awad – National Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations
Arsalan Iftikhar – human rights lawyer, global media commentator, and author of the book Scapegoats: How Islamophobia Helps Our Enemies & Threatens Our Freedoms[27]
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Rashida Tlaib – One of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress.[31]
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Mujahid Abdul Halim – Served 45 years in prison for taking part in the assassination of Malcolm X; Long-time member of the Nation of Islam but converted to traditional Islam while in prison.
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