Mahdi Bray Explained
| Wright Mahdi Bray |
| Birth Name: | Wright Bray |
| Birth Date: | January 9, 1950 |
| Birth Place: | Norfolk, VA |
| Other Names: | Wrighty Bray, Jr.;
Wright Bray IV;
Herbert Bray[1] |
| Employer: | American Muslim Alliance[2] |
| Occupation: | National Director |
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| Website: | Bray blog |
Wright Mahdi Bray (born "Wright Bray" January 9, 1950), is a Muslim American civil and human rights activist and currently the National Director of the American Muslim Alliance and formerly served as executive director of the Muslim American Society's Freedom Foundation (MAS Freedom) based in Washington, DC.[3] The foundation supported Muslim activists and religious leaders who have been arrested.[4]
Political activism
Bray used to be political director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC).[5] [6]
Bray has expressed support for Hamas and Hezbollah on a number of occasions.[7] A video of a rally in 2000 shows Bray pumping his fist in the air in support of the groups Hamas and Hezbollah.[8] He asserts, however, that he is not a supporter of Hamas.
In 2001 Bray served as a liaison with United States President George W. Bush's White House Faith-Based Initiative Program, which he later opposed.[5] [9] [10] After the September 11 attacks, he and other Muslim leaders met with then-U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft.[11] He also served as a congressional affairs representative on behalf of the Muslim community.
Bray served on the board of directors of the Interfaith Alliance and the National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice, and is a National Co-convener of Religions for Peace-USA. He is a Washington, DC, television and radio talk show host, and has appeared on CBS News, Fox, MSNBC, CNN, C-SPAN, Aljazeera, and many TV and radio talk shows. Bray also organized protests against the U.S. war in Afghanistan,[12] the Iraq war, and the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.[13] [14]
References
- Web site: U.S. v. Wright Bray, Indictment, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, January 8, 1987, accessed December 11, 2009 . December 12, 2009 . July 18, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110718095314/http://singularvoice.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/wrightbrayindictment.pdf . live .
- News: Ben Carson's Comments Stir Anger Among Muslims. The New York Times. 21 September 2015. Rappeport. Alan. 7 March 2017. 11 May 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170511074942/https://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/09/21/ben-carsons-comments-stir-anger-among-muslims/. live.
- http://www.masnet.org/news.asp?id=3867 Official Biography
- https://books.google.com/books?id=y0YXvh_iXIEC&dq=%22Mahdi+Bray%22&pg=PT860 Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners
- http://www.wrmea.com/archives/july01/0107082.html MPAC Hosts White House Office and National Interfaith Leaders
- Delinda C. Hanley, Freeze on Jewish Defense League Assets Called for After JDL Bomb Plot Foiled, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, January/February 2002, page 16.
- https://books.google.com/books?id=t_-5ef_uoxQC&dq=%22Mahdi+Bray%22&pg=PA99 They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It, p. 99, Brigitte Gabriel, Macmillan, 2008, accessed December 11, 2009
- https://web.archive.org/web/20081013164001/http://deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/09/1525564.aspx "Obama concedes mistake over Muslim outreach meeting"
- http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_22_118/ai_77434982/ Muslims talk to DiIulio
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110710192836/http://www.energypublisher.com/particle.asp?id=2637 Renowned Religious Leaders to Call for Dismantling of White House Faith Based Office
- Terry Frieden, Ashcroft meets with Muslim, Arab leaders, CNN, October 16, 2001.
- https://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/transcripts/509.html Religion and Ethics Episode no. 509
- https://web.archive.org/web/20040429133854/http://www.masnet.org/news.asp?id=1142 Activists Arrested Outside White House Protesting Bush-Sharon Meeting
- Petula Dvorak, Protest to Encircle White House, Opponents of 'U.S.-Israeli War' Plan Large Rally Tomorrow, Washington Post, August 11, 2006.
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