State Supreme Court Justice Joins ISNA Annual Convention

The 2025 ISNA Annu­al Con­ven­tion attract­ed thou­sands of par­tic­i­pants to the Don­ald E. Stephens Con­ven­tion Cen­ter in Rose­mont, Illi­nois. On 29 August 2025, Patch report­ed that the 62nd Islam­ic Soci­ety of North Amer­i­ca con­ven­tion had been inau­gu­rat­ed by around 50 elect­ed offi­cials and com­mu­ni­ty lead­ers, fol­lowed by Fri­day prayer. The annu­al con­fer­ence is con­sid­ered by many to be the biggest assem­bly of Mus­lims in the Unit­ed States. The arti­cle begins:

The Islam­ic Soci­ety of North Amer­i­ca rolled out its 62nd Annu­al Con­ven­tion and attract­ed Thou­sands of Enthu­si­as­tic Par­tic­i­pants On Fri­day August 29th 2025 at the Don­ald E. Stephens Con­ven­tion Cen­ter in Rose­mont, Illi­nois. A Mul­ti­fac­eted 62 Con­ven­tion was inau­gu­rat­ed by around 50 elect­ed offi­cials and com­mu­ni­ty lead­ers fol­lowed by Fri­day prayer by thou­sands of par­tic­i­pants. The annu­al con­fer­ence of the Islam­ic Soci­ety of North Amer­i­ca is con­sid­ered by many to be the biggest assem­bly of Mus­lims in the Unit­ed States. For the ben­e­fit of our com­mu­ni­ty, it draws thou­sands of peo­ple and func­tions as a social and spir­i­tu­al gath­er­ing. Accord­ing to Mir Khan, Chair­man, Islam­ic Soci­ety of North Amer­i­ca Steer­ing Com­mit­tee, the con­ven­tion draws not only Mus­lim Amer­i­cans but also rep­re­sen­ta­tives from oth­er reli­gions, inter­na­tion­al del­e­ga­tions, and heads of state and munic­i­pal gov­ern­ment. There is more to Islam­ic Soci­ety of North Amer­i­ca Con­ven­tion than just the Mus­lim com­mu­ni­ty com­ing together.

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Key Points

• The 62nd ISNA Annu­al Con­ven­tion 2025 ran from August 29 to Sep­tem­ber 1 at the Don­ald E. Stephens Con­ven­tion Cen­ter in Rosemont.

• Approx­i­mate­ly 50 elect­ed offi­cials and com­mu­ni­ty lead­ers inau­gu­rat­ed the event, with thou­sands attend­ing Fri­day prayer ser­vices and pro­gram­ming through­out the weekend.

• The con­ven­tion fea­tured 200 speak­ers, includ­ing Supreme Court Jus­tice Mary Kath­leen O’Brien, Meh­di Hasan, Zaid Shakir, and Yasir Qadhi.

• The even­t’s theme was “Renew­ing the Amer­i­can Spir­it: Prophet­ic Ideals for Chal­leng­ing Times,” focus­ing on faith-moti­vat­ed social change and inter­faith connections.

The Islam­ic Soci­ety of North Amer­i­ca (ISNA) is a Plain­field, Illi­nois-based umbrel­la orga­ni­za­tion that emerged out of ear­ly US Mus­lim Broth­er­hood infra­struc­ture and was named an unin­dict­ed co-con­spir­a­tor in the Holy Land Foun­da­tion ter­ror­ism tri­al due to what the US Jus­tice Depart­ment described as the orga­ni­za­tion’s “inti­mate rela­tion­ship with the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood, the Pales­tine Com­mit­tee, and the defen­dants in this case.” A report by the Glob­al Influ­ence Oper­a­tions Report (GIOR) edi­tor demon­strates ISNA’s his­to­ry of ties to the Glob­al Mus­lim Broth­er­hood (GMB) in the US and Hamas as well as its his­to­ry of fun­da­men­tal­ism and sup­port for ter­ror­ism, which ISNA has long denied. ISNA lead­ers main­tain­ing orga­ni­za­tion­al and fam­i­ly ties to the GMB include ISNA Pres­i­dent Saafa Zarzour, who served as chair­man of CAIR-Chica­go for over 10 years. ISNA US Vice-Pres­i­dent Mag­da Elka­di Saleh is the daugh­ter of promi­nent ear­ly US MB leader Ahmed Elka­di. The orga­ni­za­tion has cul­ti­vat­ed sig­nif­i­cant influ­ence with­in Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty struc­tures, with Pres­i­dent Biden send­ing a let­ter vow­ing con­tin­ued coop­er­a­tion with ISNA and mul­ti­ple Biden admin­is­tra­tion offi­cials and Demo­c­ra­t­ic politi­cians appear­ing at ISNA’s annu­al con­ven­tions. In 2009, a US fed­er­al judge ruled that “the Gov­ern­ment has pro­duced ample evi­dence to estab­lish the asso­ci­a­tions of CAIR, ISNA and NAIT with HLF”—the Holy Land Foun­da­tion con­vict­ed of financ­ing Hamas.

Exter­nal references:

• The Hamas Net­works in Amer­i­ca: A Short His­to­ry — George Wash­ing­ton Uni­ver­si­ty Pro­gram on Extremism 
• EXTREMISM AND THE ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA (ISNA)
• The Mus­lim Broth­er­hood in the Unit­ed States

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