Advocacy & Civic Engagement

Muslims for Just Futures (MJF) sends our deepest condolences to the community of the Islamic Center of San Diego, to the families of the three martyrs whose lives were taken while protecting the community, and to Muslims everywhere carrying grief and fear in the aftermath of this act of anti-Muslim terror.

What happened in San Diego is an act of anti-Muslim terror rooted in white supremacy and decades of structural Islamophobia that has normalized the dehumanization of Muslims. Authorities say the two suspects were radicalized online, consumed racist and anti-Muslim propaganda, and openly idolized the Christchurch mosque shooter. This attack exists within the same lineage of violence that produced Christchurch, Poway, El Paso, Quebec City, and countless other attacks where Muslims and racialized communities are dehumanized and treated as existential threats to the nation.

We encourage our partners and movements to refuse the reductionist language that turns anti-Muslim terror into random “hate crimes,” “extremism,” or generalized violence. This is anti-Muslim terror that has been cultivated through decades of policies and political rhetoric that cast Muslims as permanent enemies both domestically and globally.

Today, Muslims for Just Futures (MJF) is releasing a new movement memo analyzing the strategy’s global and regional ​counterterrorism priorities, and what it signals for movements and struggles against militarism and state violence. The memo argues that the strategy represents the culmination of decades of unchecked post-9/11 counterterrorism expansion that have normalized a permanent global counterterrorism regime.

Muslims for Just Futures is deeply concerned by the Department of Justice’s decision to indict the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on allegations of fraud and financial misconduct. These charges signal a troubling shift in how legal and regulatory tools are being deployed to target, discredit, and repress civil society organizations.