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Eboo Patel was a member of President Barack Obama's inaugural Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships. He is an American Ismaili of Gujarati Indian heritage and founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicago-based international nonprofit that aims to promote interfaith cooperation.

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I think that we live in a remarkably networked world. The problem with that, of course, is that tensions can travel in nanoseconds across the Internet, and so the tensions between Shiites and Sunnis in Baghdad, or between Protestants and Catholics in Belfast - those show up in different parts of the world.

Baghdad, Catholic, Different, Shiites, Thinking, Travel

Finding Mecca in America weaves social theory and concrete ethnography into a significant contribution on Muslims in the United States, illuminating broader questions about the integration of minority and immigrant groups along the way. This is an important work and a joy to read.

America, Important, Joy, Read, United

What we pluralists have to do is to say to the people standing on the faith line, particularly the young ones, no, pluralism is the wish of the creator. It is the greatest opportunity for humanity.

Opportunity, Particularly, People, Pluralism Is, Wish, Young

One of the best ways of showing pluralism in action is for people to do service together, and that has so many benefits.

Action, Benefits, People, Together

A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality, and one of the great ideas of our time is pluralism. Can people from different backgrounds live together in mutual peace and loyalty? And what we need is a generation of young social entrepreneurs who know how to make that great idea reality in an historical moment where religious extremists are, frankly, making their idea reality.

Generation, Historical, Loyalty, Reality, Religious, Somebody

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

Care, Compassion, Show, Stewardship

Religious extremists want to show us that the only possibility is for us to kill each other, so September 11 is not only heinous murder, it is also global performance. It is also putting an idea into the world, an idea of destruction.

Global, Ideas, Kill, Possibility, Religious, September 11

I think that young people are going to continue on with the work on pluralism for two reasons, really. One is because it's the reality of the world that they live in, and I think young people from different backgrounds are asking themselves, what does it mean for me to be a Buddhist and friends with a Baptist?

Buddhist, Live, Mean, Reality, Think, World

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

Defend, Heart, People, Pluralism, Side, Tradition

My favorite single line from the Quran is from Surah 49:13, which says that God made us different nations and tribes that we may come to know one another, in the sense that diversity is holy and it was created by God. What we humans are meant to do with that diversity is engage in positive interaction with each other and come to know one another because knowledge is holy and pluralism or positive engagement is holy.

Communication, Different, Diversity, Knowledge, Nations

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

Bombs, Bridges, People, Stronger

Religious pluralism is neither mere coexistence nor forced consensus. It is a form of proactive cooperation that affirms the identity of the constituent communities while emphasizing that the well-being of each and all depends on the health of the whole. It is the belief that the common good is best served when each community has a chance to make its unique contribution.

Health, Pluralism, Pluralism Is, Religious, Unique, Whole

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

Entrepreneur, Idea, Ideas, Reality, Social

Have big dreams but focus only on what you can control: your own thoughts, words and actions. This was Gandhi's way. . . in the words of Buddhist poet Gary Snyder, our job is to move the world a millionth of an inch.

Buddhist, Dream, Inch, Job, Jobs, Way

I dream of a world where people from different backgrounds are praying and working for the flourishment of communities different from them, and I find my sustenance not only in these stories in scripture, but in stories of human existence also - the story of the Bosnian Muslim man who took to a Serbian couple with a new baby a liter of milk every day during that horrible struggle in the former Yugoslavia, because he said even if our tribes, our nations, are at war with each other, there is something deeply human about me wishing that your baby survives and is secure.

Baby, Couple, Deeply, Dream, Took

Everywhere I go - from villages outside Kandy, Sri Lanka, to community centers in Amman, Jordan, to offices at the State Department in Washington, D. C. - I find people with a similar story. When thousands of people discover that their story is also someone else's story, they have the chance to write a new story together.

Community, Discover, People, Sri, Sri Lanka, Writing