There may be as many as 10 million Muslims living in this country.
Unfortunately, the negative images of Muslims perpetuated in the media impacts our ability to trust each other as a nation and tolerate our differences.
Muslims witness this hostility towards their religion due to the actions of misguided terrorist groups whom they have no shared affiliation with.
Those who hate Islam actively seek to exploit current global tensions and misrepresent Islamic evidences as a means to espouse and encourage hate and oppression towards Muslims in general.
Hence the need for a broad range Muslim body, that has legal weight in enabling or preventing policies and laws, that protect and strengthen the lives of Muslims in line with equality and fairness.