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The Muslim American Society (MAS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1993, and headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, that describes itself as an Islamic revival and reform movement. Its founding member were mainly foreign students of Arab descent.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''The North American Muslim resource guide: Muslim community life in the United States and Canada'', Mohamed Nimer, Taylor & Francis, 2002, ISBN 0415937280 )〕 It was created by the Muslim Brotherhood, after a debate among Muslim Brotherhood members in the U.S. about whether to remain underground, or to have a public face.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America'', Brigitte Gabriel, Macmillan, 2008, ISBN 0312358385 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It'', Brigitte Gabriel,Macmillan, 2008, ISBN 0312383630 )〕 MAS has instructed its members to evade questions about the group's ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, and to define jihad as a "divine legal right" of Muslims to be used for defense and the spread of Islam.〔"A rare look at secretive Brotherhood in America" http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdog/chi-0409190261sep19,0,7534398,print.story〕 MAS leaders have said that these views are not now held by MAS leaders.〔."A rare look at secretive Brotherhood in America" http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdog/chi-0409190261sep19,0,7534398,print.story〕 MAS also has an affiliate, the MAS Freedom Foundation,〔(Muslim American Society, Retrieved 2007-10-21 )〕 whose Executive Director is Mahdi Bray. For a number of years, Esam Omeish was its President. MAS has participated in interfaith dialogue with the U.S. Bishops' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs. In November 2014, MAS was designated a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates.〔 〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Muslim American Society」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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