Eboo Patel

Finding Mecca in America weaves social theory and concrete ethnography into a significant contribution on Muslims in the United States, illuminating broader…

— Eboo Patel

I think that we live in a remarkably networked world. The problem with that, of course, is that tensions can travel in…

— Eboo Patel

“In one of the moments when my father was feeling especially righteous about his “Muslim-ness,” I overheard him expressing concern to my…

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We have to build bridges that are stronger than the bombs that other people might throw

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Religious pluralism is neither mere coexistence nor forced consensus. It is a form of proactive cooperation that affirms the identity of the…

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“I realized that it was precisely because of America’s glaring imperfections that I should seek to participate in its progress, carve a…

— Eboo Patel

A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality, and one of the great ideas of our time…

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Show me a religion that doesn't care about compassion. Show me a religion that doesn't care about stewardship of the environment. Show…

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To see the other side, to defend another people, not despite your tradition but because of it, is the heart of pluralism

— Eboo Patel

When thousands of people discover that their story is also someone else's story, they have the chance to write a new story…

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Religious extremists want to show us that the only possibility is for us to kill each other, so September 11 is not…

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I as a Muslim believe deeply in the differences that are within Islam. But I also take seriously the idea that we…

— Eboo Patel

I thought about the meaning of pluralism in a world where the forces that seek to divide us are strong. I came…

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Too many people think that the faith line divides Muslims and Christians or Jews and Hindus, or just to say that there…

— Eboo Patel

A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality.

— Eboo Patel

Everywhere I go - from villages outside Kandy, Sri Lanka, to community centers in Amman, Jordan, to offices at the State Department…

— Eboo Patel

I have learned so much more about Islam in conversation with Jews and Christians and Hindus. I feel like that is part…

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I think that young people are going to continue on with the work on pluralism for two reasons, really. One is because…

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The totalitarians in the world are very, very small. Only the smallest part of humanity wishes and acts upon the destruction of…

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To teach your child to only be a Muslim in Muslim spaces or only a Christian in Christian spaces means in a…

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I dream of a world where people from different backgrounds are praying and working for the flourishment of communities different from them,…

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Have big dreams but focus only on what you can control: your own thoughts, words and actions. This was Gandhi's way ...…

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What we pluralists have to do is to say to the people standing on the faith line, particularly the young ones, no,…

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The question of how people orient around religion differently, or interact with one another, whether that be based on conflict or cooperation,…

— Eboo Patel

“Home. The place where your barber doesn’t have to ask what to do with your hair. Where the music you love came…

— Eboo Patel