The American Islamic Forum for Democracy

Our Muslim Reform Movement (MRM) initiative and programming has also grown. This included major town hall conversations with our MRM leaders on Red-Green Axis, So-called Islamophobia, Free-Speech, Lessons from Islams Defectors, The Withdrawal Debacle in Afghanistan, Womens Rights, Countering Anti-Semitism, Irans Womens Movement, Anti-Islamist Leadership, How to Defeat Islamism, and Minority Rights to name a few. AIFD has continued to lead diverse American and western Muslim leaders in establishing a voice for reform and against Islamism. The MRM continued to use its joint declaration as a reform tool (platform) for its member organizations and has enlarged the discourse on anti-Islamist pro-freedom reforms to broader coalitions. The MRM includes over 30 leaders and organizations with diverse voices not only in the United States but in Canada, and Europe who are dedicated to reform. These networks of reform-minded Muslim leaders continue to gain momentum in their work as each leader publicizes and advocates their individual work and the collective then comes together to serve as an alternative to the domestic and global network of Islamist organizations such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Islamic Society of North America, and the Muslim Public Affairs Council. We continue to seek out and add other like-minded Muslim leaders across the world to join in our fight for Muslim reform towards modernity. The growing network of diverse leaders, led by AIFD, continues to partner and work together regularly, cooperating in monthly meetings, joint papers, public position statements, and hundreds of media appearances and public forums, in the promotion of our ideas for Muslim reform against Islamism and to aid public counterterrorism and counter radicalization efforts against radical Islamists. We continue to seek through our public platforms shifting the whole of societys approach in counterterrorism from the proven ineffective Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) strategy to a more effective Countering Violent Islamism (CVI) programming and strategy.

Muslim Liberty Project (MLP) is our community and leadership building initiative among young Muslims age 15-30. We empower and mentor future young American Muslim leaders who align with our work of reform against Islamist ideas and who advocate for the importance and duty of establishing a balanced American and Muslim identity. MLP youth engage in discussions and community projects that balance their American and Muslim identities. These projects include interfaith collaborative efforts, the development of university ambassadors, townhalls, and forums to openly discuss current events that impact them and the U.S. Finally, we provide community service opportunities that bring awareness to the plight of various communities and demonstrate how American Muslims can make a difference. Our youth often engage in programs aiding the humanitarian efforts in Syria, the global refugee crisis, and other interfaith work. We also added the mentoring program of Future Muslim Leaders of America which pairs future young Muslim leaders in the United States with some of our anti-Islamist Muslim reform leaders and mentors them in skills, professionalism, and engagement on all of our platforms to lead our legacy work in the future.AIFD continues to work with law enforcement with vulnerable youth in our pilot counter-radicalization programs. We have led working groups addressing indicators of isolation and extremism in vulnerable youth. AIFD also began working intensively with pilot programming for at-risk young individuals referred by the local and federal court system to AIFD for de-radicalization programming and mentoring. AIFD also continues to provide educational programming for government, military, and law enforcement providing, for example, its Radical Islamism for Law Enforcement (RILE) course with a full day curriculum to educate any appropriate law enforcement or security personnel on our counter-radicalization strategies.