Pillars Fund hundreds of grant applications it receives each year. Pillars Fund Pillars Fund is a grant-making organization and Muslim community foundation named in reference to the five pillars of Islam, the third of which is Zakat. Founded in 2010 in the mold of United Way and Jewish Federations of North America, and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Pillars is focused on funding secular non-profit programs supporting American Muslims in media, public relations, and leadership development. It is one of the largest funders of Muslim issues in the United States. Pillars Fund is governed by a Board of Advisors, many of whom are
Islam: The Untold Story "exotic" option of interviewing a Bedouin, and that although he had consulted Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr – "a token Muslim voice" – Nasr was a scholar of Islamic philosophy and not Islamic history. Asserting that "Islam: The Untold Story" was based on poor scholarship by assuming the superiority of secular Western historical inquiry over Islamic historical traditions, she argued that it would promote negative views of "an already poorly-understood faith and its much-maligned adherents." Abdullah al-Andalusi of the Muslim Debate Initiative sums "Islam: the Untold Story" as "a missed opportunity to transcend an outdated Besserwissen approach to comparative religion, and