By Eboo Patel: It took Muslims a full three months to figure out a strategy to counter the campaign against Cordoba House, otherwise known as “the Ground Zero Mosque.” This time around, it took about three hours.
We need to engage with each other in spaces where we are allowed to speak from our own experiences first, as we do in interfaith dialogue, so people can listen generously and understand how we came to our views first.
After organizing interfaith movements in South Africa, India, and Sri Lanka, social entrepreneur Eboo Patel founded Interfaith Youth Core in 2002 with a mission to make interfaith cooperation a social norm.
