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Be Yourself. Be Muslim.

Advocacy. Inclusion. Social Justice.

CREATING A CULTURE ROOTED IN HUMAN RIGHT IN MUSLIM SOCIETIES.

Our mission is to inculcate a culture rooted in human rights through public education, advocacy, and the arts

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From 2007 to Today: 18 Years of Bold, Compassionate Faith

We’re turning 18! 

For nearly two decades, Muslims for Progressive Values has championed an Islam rooted in human rights, inclusion, and justice.

We invite you to watch this video from our founder and President, Ani Zonneveld, as she honors this day, not just by looking back at the past, but by celebrating all that we have to look forward to in our future, starting with grants for Muslims in the entertainment industry. 

As we step into the adult chapter of our life, we need your support to keep growing the grants we give. Check out the arts projects we've funded over the years, here. Make a birthday gift today to ensure we're here for the next 18 years and beyond.

Donate Here!

With gratitude,

The Muslims for Progressive Values' Team

 
 

OUR MISSION

Our mission is to inculcate a culture rooted in human rights through public education, advocacy, and the arts

“I follow the Way of Love, and where Love's caravan takes its path, there is my religion, my faith.”

— Ibn Al-'Arabi

 
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THE LATEST AT MPV

Below are just a few highlights of what the MPV community has been up to over the past few months. For a full update about MPV’s activities, we encourage you to check out our monthly newsletters.

PROGRESSIVE ISLAM WORKSHOPS

If you weren’t able to make our “Hermeneutics in Progressive Islam” workshop, the most recent workshop in our Progressive Islam Curriculum Live series, you can watch the workshop recording on our Youtube page here.

JUNE PRESIDENTS NOTE

In MPV’s June 2025 newsletter, President Ani Zonneveld shares her take on the responsibility that people of faith have to hold their co-religionists accountable, demanding that people of the Jewish faith stand against Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.

2024 IMPACT REPORT

MPV’s 2024 Annual Impact Report is out now and ready for you! Read the full report here to learn how, with the help of your support and enthusiasm, we brought our three core pillars - Public Education, Advocacy, and the Arts - to life in 2024.

 

YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

Donations to MPV help with our various initiatives and needs!

 
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I am a 16 year old from the Bay Area in California. About a month ago I was having a really hard time coming to terms with my sexuality and I was terrified because I had been raised thinking it is haram to be a bisexual muslim. I've spent the last year trying to deny who I am just because of what I've been taught......Then I stumbled upon your website. I read the article "Is There Room in Islam for Lesbian, Gay Bisexual, and Transgender Muslims?" and I cannot thank you enough for providing it. The night that I read it, it felt like I finally had a place in this world. I have been feeling conflicted for so long, but that article helped me realize that my existence is not a sin.

Jazakum Allaho Khairan for what you are doing for Islam and Muslims...

This is a message to thank Ani for the speech she gave at CCMW. Her speech gave me and others a new hope and perspective. It has given me confidence to deal with bigoted hostilities within my community and I was even able to implement her advice in conversation with my cab driver while heading to the airport. I was able to approach his anger about the lgbtq inclusive school curriculum with empathy and patience and was even able to use Islam and the prophet to both set his mind at ease and empower him to see the humanity of marginalized communities such as the lgbtq+ community and guided him even see the value of protecting them.

"I became a muslim more than 20 years ago and have looked for other muslims ever since who could be proud to call themselves feminist, LGBTQ allies and otherwise progressive people. I have always seen Islam as the most progressive religion with a central, simple message that Allah loves all people and that we should seek to do the same. What you have accomplished over the years is very inspirational and important to me and so many others. Thank you!"

RE: MPV's Open Letter to Hamlin University: "God, thank you guys for saying something. I have watched this intensely idiotic story unfolding over the last few weeks wondering where are the voices of Muslims like me who are horrified by the censorship in 'our' name. Truly we are lost as a community if we now feel that art commissioned by Muslims and made by Muslims hundreds of years ago is now somehow too haram to even show to non-Muslims. Insanity. Thanks for being a voice of reason."

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