I have learned so much more about Islam in conversation with Jews and Christians and Hindus. I feel like that is part of the beauty of life on Earth ….

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

I thought about the meaning of pluralism in a world where the forces that seek to divide us are strong. I came to one conclusion: We have to save eac….

To teach your child to only be a Muslim in Muslim spaces or only a Christian in Christian spaces means in a way that you're teaching them a religious….

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 g….

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

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

I as a Muslim believe deeply in the differences that are within Islam. But I also take seriously the idea that we have to come to know one another..

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

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 differe….

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 Interne….

My favorite single line from the Qur’an is from Surah 49:13, which says that God made us different nations and tribes that we may come to know one an….

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….

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

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 creat….

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

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 ….

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

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

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

Too many people think that the faith line divides Muslims and Christians or Jews and Hindus, or just to say that there is this clash of civilizations….