Weeks before Election Day on April 5, scores of volunteers placed yard signs for Muslim American candidates running for public office. Volunteers of all ages arrived before the polls opened at 6:00 a.m. and stayed long after the last election tape was printed and results were announced. “Project Mobilize is using the election results and information on increased Muslim American political involvement to show our elected officials that we are paying attention to the political process and want them to pay attention too,” said Reema Ahmad, executive director of Project M. “It is time for our community to more fully assume our American identities – the identity that individuals such as Peter King have tried so diligently to deny.”