Where are the "Good" Muslims? People are asking, "Where are the "Good" Muslims? Why they don't speak out more?"
More than ever, the need to promote peace and tolerance and build bridges is vital for every American Muslim, but we don't have millions of dollars to spend in the mass media to promote our message, and we do NOT accept financial donations. How then can we deliver our message?
The solution is EASY ! We propose here 16 practical ideas. If you have any questions or other suggestions please contact us.
Connect with your Friends
Simply browse the site and find articles, or videos of interest, and email to your friends with a note to let you know what they think of it.
Anonymous email
Click on "Share Islam" banner, put the email addresses of your friends and family members. We will send a message introducing Islam with an invitation to visit this site. Your identity will not be known to the recipients.
Join MuslimChannels - Become an Activist!
Join MuslimChannels.tv and become an activist ... use the "One Click" SHARE Feature to deliver Religious, Educational, or Progressive News in video Content to as many people as you wish. Join Discussion Forums and participate in Community activities. Meet good people who share your views and look for ways to collaborate together. If you can imagine it, it is possible!
MuslimChannels - Channels of Knolwdge, Collaboration, Activism.
Offer a free Book to Friends
Simply browse the downloads section where you can browse and read many great books. Just email to friends and attach the page link. They can read directly from this site, or download and read later at their convenience.
Site banners
Please use our banners or make your own. Post on your site and link to us. Here is our collection of banners.
Radio Ads
Run one of our Radio Ads in your local area. It is simple: Listen to the samples, pick the ad you like, ask few of your good friends to share the cost with you (may cost $50 - $600 per spot, depending on size of market coverage, and number of spots), let us know which Radio Station you wish to run the ad. We can also incorporate your business or organization name, or your Islamic Center in the ad! If this is too much for you ... simply send us a payment of any amount. God willing, we will manage the ad insertion details, and send you a tax credit letter for the payment received.
Young Muslim Leaders: Age 17 - 27 are invited to lead "Neighborhood Enlightenment" Presentations. We have plug n play package for you to give the most wonderful Islam presentations on campus, and in public forums. In less than 4 hours, you will be a Pro !- Click here
YouTube & MySpace
Subscribe to Muslim Bridges Channel on YouTube and get fresh videos delivered to you automatically by email. You can share these videos with your friends, and attach with your emails to reinforce and strengthen your communications. Volunteer a little of your time online and help us maximize the exposure of Islamic content. Our playlists include: Beautiful Islam, American Muslims, Peace and Human Rights, Comparative Religion. The possibilities are endless!!
Join the Contest - Billboard ads
Use your creative skills to help us Say No to Islamophobia. Join the Contest and help us to better communicate and deliver our message with powerful impact. $3000 in Awards
Place advertisement in your local paper
You or your organization can sponsor ads at your local papers. We will coordinate the entire process, use our non-profit status to get the lowest possible cost, and make an immediate impact in your local area.
We list all the major Islamic Centers on our site, and direct local inquiries resulting from your advertisement back to your area. If you don't see your Islamic Center listed on our site, but it is part of the Shura council, just let us know and we will add it.
Business & bumper sticker Campaign
Have you been to a Muslim store lately? Look at the front doors, or windows. There is a good chance you will see Muslim Bridges Stickers. Just like Visa and MasterCard stickers, but a bit larger in size with positive messages about Islam.
Print a couple and take with you next time you go shopping. Store owners always welcome your positive sentiment, and will be glad to let you stick it on their front door. Have a mew design in mind ... send it to us. See Window Sticker 1 - Download artwork. See Bumper / Window Sticker 2 - Download artwork.
Support President Carter for Peace
One way you can stand behind President Carter and his efforts for Peace in the M. East, is simply to purchase his book "Palestine, Peace, Not Apartheid", read it, then pass it on to a friend, and ask some of your friends to do the same. You can purchase this book from your local book store (like Barns and Nobel), or from many online shops (such as Amazon.com).
Distribute flyers and hang posters
Print, and distribute at Islamic Centers, or post on Muslim bulletin boards 1) Flyer 4 Muslims
Print and post at school, or community bulletin boards (use scissors to cut between each site address for easy tear). 2) Flyer bulletin boards
Hand out to public during events at your Islamic Centers, or presentations about Islam. After you print as double sided on heavy stock, fold three ways. 3) "Selected Ayaht" Hand-out High Res. Download Side 1 , Side 2
5) Poster - Color 6) Poster good in B & W Use at events, meetings, peace rallies, picnics, outreach, and other gatherings in your community.
Volunteer
Muslim Bridges.org works closely with other Islamic organizations to promote dialogue, peace, and educating the public at large about the Beauty of Islam. We appreciate your help as a volunteer to assist in our collective mission. You can select your level of participation from 4 hours per month up to 16 hours. Please let us know if we can count on your personal assistance, or if you have other ideas that maybe of help to further spread our outreach message. Please contact us.
Become a MuslimBridges content Contributor
We have discovered so many of our current registered users, volunteers, and new visitors are among the best and most talented writers, activists, journalists, photographers, scholars and educators. We are happy to receive news stories, articles, and photographs / images, and glad to publish on our site and also include in the Weekly MB Review, a high circulation newsletter sent weekly by email. We are also happy to take your story a little further and forward to our press contacts when appropriate.
We wish we can use all the material we may receive, but can only publish those articles which are well-written, concise, offer a unique progressive perspective and have appeal to our users here in the United States, as well as our international users. Please keep submissions under 1200 words if possible. If you are sending images, please include brief notes and sort them so that we may use as Photo-Story. Please send to
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with the title "Submissions".
Simply browse the downloads section where you can browse and read many great books. Just email to friends and attach the page link. They can read directly from this site, or download and read later at their convenience.
One way you can stand behind President Carter and his efforts for Peace in the M. East, is simply to purchase his book "
