The Muslim Reform Movement is a U.S.-based organization dedicated to

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in Islam based on values of

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, and

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governance. The organization was founded on December 4, 2015, when the founders read a "Declaration of Reform" at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The founders then went to the Saudi-affiliated Islamic Center of Washington and posted the Declaration of Reform on the doors of mosque "denouncing violent jihad, rejecting Islamic statism and opposing the 'ideology of violent

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.'" Founding signatories of the Muslim Reform Movement are Asra Nomani, Tahir Aslam Gora, Tawfik Hamid,

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, Arif Humayun, Farahnaz Ispahani,

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, Naser Khader, Courtney Lonergan, Hasan Mahmud,

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. Announcing the founding of the Muslim Reform Movement on NBC's '' Meet the Press'' on December 6, 2015, Asra Nomani said,

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