Ghazala Anwar is an associate professor of Quranic studies at Starr King School for the Ministry, a Unitarian Universalist school, at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif. She is also on the steering committee of GTU’s Women’s Studies in Religion program. Among her areas of interest are women in Islam and gender equality.

Dalia Hashad is the Arab, Muslim, South Asian advocate for the American Civil Liberties Union. She is part of the Campaign Against Racial Profiling, which focuses on issues facing Arab, Muslim and South Asian Americans in a post-9/11 world. 

Read an April 29, 2014, story in The Guardian about the fate of hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by the extremist group Boko Haram.

Zainal Abidin Bagir directs the Center for Religious and Cross-cultural Studies at Gadjah Mada University in Indonesia. He researches religious life in Indonesia, the philosophy of religion and religion and science. He has written on Islam and the environment.

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is an international movement that identifies as Muslim but differs from Orthodox Islam in its teachings. Its U.S. headquarters is in Maryland and it maintains more than 70 chapters across the U.S.

Read a Sept. 29, 2011, Vancouver Sun story about how Muslim principles of moderation and ethical treatment of animals are guiding a new emphasis within the faith on eco-responsibility.

Mohamad A. Chakaki is an environmental consultant for the Baraka Group in Washington, D.C. He helped launch the environmental network Green Muslims. Contact through the Center for Whole Communities, where he is on the faculty.

LLewellyn Vaughan-Lee is a Sufi teacher and founder of the Golden Sufi Center, which has its North American headquarters in Point Reyes Station, Calif., as well as offices in the United Kingdom and Switzerland. Vaughan-Lee, a native of London, edited the anthology Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth, and a column he wrote on eco-spirituality was […]

Islamic Relief USA and sister organizations around the world are sending workers and raising funds to help the victims.