REPORT: Meet the CAIR-Linked Group That Aims To Place Muslim Americans in Federal Jobs

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From the Washington Free Beacon: Muslim Americans in Public Service is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that coordinates with federal agencies to help Muslims obtain and advance careers in government. To do so, it partners with Islamic organizations, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations, that have either condoned terror attacks or have been linked to terrorist organizations.

In addition to CAIR, the nonprofit known as MAPS touts the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations as one of its partners and the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) and Helping Hand for Relief and Development as two of its sponsors. MAPS has worked with CAIR to host events that bring together MAPS members “across all levels and branches of government.” And while it does not disclose its donors, it says it receives “sizable in-kind donations” from its partners, as well as funding from “federal agencies,” nonprofits, and state commissions.

MAPS’s affiliation with those groups—all of which have praised or been linked to terrorist organizations—could raise concerns about its efforts to place employees inside the federal bureaucracy. While it’s unlikely MAPS will have success placing political appointees in the Trump administration, which has opposed affinity groups that support DEI initiatives in federal agencies and is staunchly at odds with MAPS’s criticism of Israel, the group’s top members include some career officials entrenched in the federal government.

Formed in 2021, MAPS is led by a board of current and former career federal employees, according to the group’s website and their LinkedIn profiles. Ahmad Maaty, the founding chairman of MAPS, is a senior economist at the Department of Justice. Other board members include Veterans Affairs official Hasan Shanawani, Office of Management and Budget examiner Farrah Pappa, United Nations mission adviser Mariya Ilyas, and White House policy analyst Ameer Abdulrahman, a former official for Democratic Senate candidate Morgan Harper.

READ MORE at the Free Beacon.

In November, MAPS celebrated the confirmations of two Biden-appointed judges, who the Democrat-led Senate managed to get confirmed in the final weeks before President Trump’s inauguration.

Judge Amir Ali, 40, was born in Canada in 1985. He holds dual citizenship with the U.S. and Canada, and only became a U.S. citizen in 2019. He was nominated by Joe Biden in February 2024, to fill a seat vacated by Judge Beryl Howell, who assumed senior status.

Ali was one of the group of radical judges that Democrats rushed to confirm in November, ahead of President Trump’s inauguration. Ali was confirmed on November 20, and assumed office on November 22, 2024, becoming the first Muslim and Arab American federal judge to serve in D.C.

Judge Mustafa Taher Kasubhai, was born 1970 in California. His parents immigrated to the U.S. from India in the 1960s. Following his appointment as a magistrate judge for the District of Oregon in 2018, he became the first Muslim-American to serve as a federal judge in the U.S.

He was confirmed by the Senate on November 19, 2024, in a 51-44 vote.

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