The EDSA Revolution of 2001, also called by the local media as EDSA II (pronounced as EDSA Dos or EDSA 2) or the Second People Power Revolution, is the common name of the four-day revolution that peacefully overthrew Philippine President Joseph Estrada from January 17–20, 2001. Advocates describe EDSA II as "popular" but critics view the uprising as a conspiracy among political and business elites, military top brass and Catholic Cardinal Jaime Sin. Estrada was succeeded by his then vice-president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo who was sworn into the presidency by then-Chief Justice Hilario Davide, Jr. at around noon on January 20, 2001 amidst the EDSA II crowd, several hours even before Estrada left Malacanang. EDSA is an acronym derived from Epifanio de los Santos Avenue, the major thoroughfare connecting the five cities in Metro Manila, namely Pasay, Makati, Mandaluyong, Quezon City, and Caloocan. The revolt took place in the business district of Ortigas Center. World reaction to the administration change was mixed. Though foreign nations, including the United States, immediately expressed recognition of the legitimacy of Arroyo's presidency, foreign commentators described the revolt as "a defeat for due process of law", "mob rule," and a "de facto coup".

"People power" is a political term used chiefly to describe the driving force of any popular social revolution instigated by wide-ranging and genuine massive street demonstrations, work stoppages and general strikes whose primary aim is to overthrow an existing government and/or political system, and features everyday people (rather than an armed forces coup d'etat or similar) as the driving force in this rebellion. Such "people power" may be nonviolent or violent in nature, or may begin as nonviolent and turn violent, such as eventually happened in Libya in 2011.

The term as currently defined was first used in the Philippines in 1986, during the revolt that toppled the dictatorship of President Ferdinand Marcos. The word is derived from the 1960's flower power movement against the Vietnam War.

Kamal Nawash is a Muslim Palestinian-born American lawyer, working for the Nawash Law Office in Washington, D.C.

Nawash was the first Arab American and Muslim to be nominated to run for the Virginia State Senate (2003), which he did as a Republican. Interviewed by PBS in May 2004, and asked his view on President Bush, he said: "I think he understands the dangers of terrorism in the world, and as a Muslim who realizes that most of the victims of terrorism are actually Muslims – it's actually up to 80 percent – most Muslims don't realize that."

In 2004, he founded and became President of the first American Muslim organization dedicated to combating extremism and support for terrorism among extremists. The name of the organization is the Free Muslim Coalition Against Terrorism.

In August 2004, his organization asked that the Islamic Saudi Academy of Washington to stop using the textbook that it used to teach its first-graders, inasmuch as its teachers' edition suggested emphasizing that: "All religions other than Islam are false religions." Nawash opined that to explicitly tell first-graders that Jews and Christians practice a false religion could breed extremism, and expressed the view that the academy: "must be sure to instruct students to have the utmost respect for other religions."