American Muslim Council


The American Muslim Council was an Islamic organization and registered charity in the United States.
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History

The organization was founded in 1990 by Abdul Rahman al-Amoudi with the support of the Muslim Brotherhood. Al-Amoudi formerly led the Islamic Society of Boston.
AMC took part in the defense of South Florida Professor and Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami Al-Arian and questioned the US government's allegation that the professor took part in terrorist activities. AMC produced a pamphlet in which it said that "the FBI has a history of harassing and harming minority and immigrant communities". On March 2, 2006, Al-Arian entered a guilty plea to a charge of conspiracy to help the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a "specially designated terrorist" organization. Al-Arian was sentenced to 57 months in prison, and ordered deported following his prison term.
AMC was also a member of the American Muslim Political Coordination Council, along with the American Muslim Alliance, Council on American-Islamic Relations, and Muslim Public Affairs Council. AMPCC's primary concern is to coordinate the member organizations on activism and lobbying.
The AMC went defunct in 2003. A separate, more moderate organization operating under the same name later began operations out of Chicago, Illinois.