Aminah Assilmi

Aminah Assilmi (born Janice Huff, 1945 – 5 March 2010) was a broadcast journalist, national Muslim community activist and director of the International Union of Muslim Women.

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Formerly a Southern Baptist preacher, she converted to Islam in 1977 in college while trying to convert some Muslims to Christianity. As the director of the International Union of Muslim Women, she visited campuses discussing Islam. She was named one of the 500 most influential Muslims in the world in 2009 by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre in Amman, Jordan.

Assilmi was involved in the release of the 2001 Eid stamp, as well as future anniversary editions. She was also involved in creating an educational center for Muslim converts.

She died on March 5, 2010 in a car accident while returning from a speaking engagement in New York with her older son. Her only daughter is following in her mother's footsteps, as well as passing on positive memories of her mother in the drug free program she has taught for 30 years. Aminah had another son, the youngest of her three children, who was also killed in a car accident. She also had several grandchildren.

She appears in the 2005 National Film Board of Canada documentary film about North American Muslim women, Me and the Mosque.