The American Muslim Council (AMC) is an Islamic organization and registered charity in the United States.
[citation needed] An earlier organization with the same name was founded in 1990 by Abdul Rahman al-Amoudi with the support of the Muslim Brotherhood.
[citation needed] The AMC later reorganized itself under a new name and moved its national headquarters from Washington, D.C. to Chicago.
[2] AMC produced a pamphlet in which it said that "the FBI has a history of harassing and harming minority and immigrant communities".
[3] On March 2, 2006, Al-Arian entered a guilty plea to a charge of conspiracy to help the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a "specially designated terrorist" organization.