The Human Rights Project at ProgressiveIslam.Org follows in the steps of the United Nations Declarations of Human Rights in recognizing the inherent dignity, equal status, and inalienable rights of all human beings regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.  We believe that the Qur'an and other sacred and secular sources of human enlightenment affirm this inherent dignity of humanity and call for justice and compassion to guide us in upholding the rights and obligations that human beings hold towards each other.

Justice and Compassion are two of ninety-nine attributes of God named in the Qur'an.  In the Qur'an we find that God is both Just and Compassionate, both Majestic and Beautiful.  God calls our attention to these complementary characteristics in ourselves by reminding us that we are made in the Divine Image.  In us, the divine attributes are our human character traits.  We have been given the freedom to use them responsibly to protect and care for each other, as God and the highest aspect of our selves would have us do, or to use them capriciously to oppress and harm one another, as the lowest aspect of our selves would have us do.  Heeding the responsibility given to usby God through these virtues we intend to use this web-site to discuss and document violations of the rights of human beings within the Muslim community world-wide.

In keeping with the precept that one should clean one's own house first, it is the goal of The Human Rights Project at ProgressiveIslam.Org to focus on crimes committed from within our community by Muslims against other Muslims or non-Muslims because of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. It is our intention to bring to light the harm we do to our own faith community and the human community at large.

At this point in time in history we cannot afford to cover over our wrongdoings against ourselves and others for the sake of self-protection from a sometimes hostile non-Muslim world.  Our self-protection will only come by telling the truth about ourselves. Hiding our wrongdoings now is only destroying a way of life that has nourished us since the time of the Prophet Muhammad, alayhi salam.  We must transform our ourselves, and in doing so the community of humanity itself, by enacting the justice and compassion towards others that was commanded to us by God.

In this, we ask for both, your understanding and your participation. Insh'Allah, we will do our faith and the Ummah proud.