Imam Zaid Shakir presents Rais Bhuiyan the 3rd annual United for Change award for excellence in human service.

Rais Bhuiyan is a Bangladeshi American working as a technology professional in Dallas. He was an officer in the Bangladesh Air Force. He was a student of Sylhet Cadet College. He went to New York to study computer technology. After the September 11 terror attacks, Mark Anthony Stroman shot Bhuiyan, attempting to kill him. Bhuiyan was saved from brain damage, but lost sight in one of his eyes.

Bhuiyan gained media attraction after revealing that he will appeal to court to save Stroman from the death penalty. He told MSNBC, "I'm trying to do my best not to allow the loss of another human life. I'll knock on every door possible". He said, "In Islam it says that saving one human life is the same as saving the entire mankind. Since I forgave him, all those principles encouraged me to go even further, and stop his execution and save another human life". He has started a movement for saving Mark named World Without Hate and currently working with Amnesty International.

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