Suhail A. Khan is the Fellow for Christian-Muslim Understanding at the
Institute for Global Engagement. He is a Washington, DC based attorney and has previously held many government positions. Khan served as Policy Director and Press Secretary for U.S. Congressman Tom Campbell (R-CA) where he worked closely on a variety of legislative initiatives, including religious freedom. More recently, Khan served as a senior political appointee with the Bush administration. He served in the White House Office of Public Liaison assisting in the President's outreach to various faith communities. Khan also served as Assistant to the Secretary for Policy under U.S. Secretary Mary Peters at the U.S. Department of Transportation. While at the Department of Transportation, Khan was awarded the Secretary's Team Award in 2005 and the Gold Medal for Outstanding Achievement in 2007.
Khan serves on the boards of the
American Conservative Union, the Islamic Free Market Institute, the
Muslim Public Service Network, the
Indian American Republican Council, and on the
Buxton Initiative Advisory Council. He has spoken venues such as the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the Council for National Policy (CNP), the Harbour League, and the National Press Club. He has written opinion pieces for various publications including the Washington Post/Newsweek Forum On Faith.
He was born in Boulder, Colorado to parents who emigrated to the United States from southern India. Khan is the oldest of five children, grew up in California, earned his high school diploma from St. Lawrence Academy, a private Catholic college preparatory school in Santa Clara, in 1987. He earned a B.A. in political science from University of California at Berkeley in 1991 and a J.D. from University of Iowa in 1995.
For more information about Khan, please see the article
"The Muslim In The White House".
Just weeks after September 11, for example, two individuals associated with the violent Jewish Defense League were arrested plotting to bomb American Arab and Muslim targets including the offices of Republican Congressman Darrell Issa of Southern California. When the FBI searched through the plotters’ bomb-making materials and weapons, they came across the hate-filled ramblings of Debbie Schlussel, a fringe wingnut who ignorantly describes Issa, who happens to be of Lebanese Christian origin, as “Jihad Darrell.” And we know scores of Muslims, Arabs, and Americans thought to be either, were victims of vicious attacks and even murdered by angry individuals seeking revenge for the attacks on New York and the Pentagon.
Words do matter, and those irresponsibly driven by hate (as opposed to harmless humor), are often dangerous. Let’s preserve and exercise our First Amendment rights, but let’s do so responsibly. In the meantime, I think we can all afford to sit back and laugh at the latest irreverant episode of “South Park” “Family Guy” or heck maybe even “Jersey Shore.”
Suhail A. Khan serves on the Board of Directors for the American Conservative Union and as a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Global Engagement, a Christian organization dedicated to religious freedom worldwide. He is also a Colorado native, and yes a “South Park” fan.
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