Muslim Endorsement Council

We are, on behalf of the larger Islamic community, undertaking the responsibility of ensuring that Muslim men and women (as defined in the Ammaan Message ) who serve as pastoral caregivers are rooted in the teachings of the Qur’an and Sunnah in their practice and meet the professional standards of pastoral care, and we subsequently endorse and support them professionally as religious leaders.

Our mission is to provide a structure and process for the official endorsement and support of Muslim chaplains based on Islamic and pastoral principles and to establish a national standard for such endorsement in order to develop consistency and integrity in the field of Islamic chaplaincy.

MEC was formerly known as the Muslim Endorsement Council of Connecticut (MECC) from 2011 to 2019. For more than 15 years prior to the founding of the Muslim Endorsement Council of Connecticut (MECC), Islamic Prison Chaplains and volunteers from Connecticut (CT) would meet to discuss the creation of a group whose purpose would be to support Islamic chaplains and their clients. In March of 2006, several Muslim leaders in the state of CT, in association with the Muslim Coalition of Connecticut (MCCT), came together and established a sub-committee on chaplaincy. Support and advice were provided by the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)-CT, the International League of Muslim Women CT Chapter, the Islamic Council of New England (ICNE), the New England Council of Masajid and the New England Muslim Sisters Association (NEMSA).