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A Call to Action for Moderate Muslims
In response to the Orlando shooting, Haroon Moghul, senior fellow at the Center for Global Policy and the Muslim Leadership Initiative at the Shalom Hartman Institute here in New York, says "under-represented" moderate Muslims need to build and fund alternatives to extremism to combat terrorism.
The "Muslim mainstream" is constantly being forced into a position where it has to condemn acts of terrorism, said Moghul. Instead, it should band together to create institutions that act on true Muslim values.
It's not enough to condemn extremism: Here's how we beat it https://t.co/jMsjFs6Qkl A mainstream Muslim manifesto for @CNN
— (((haroon moghul))) (@hsmoghul) June 12, 2016@_HalemaW Thx for sharing, Halema. Can you provide some context? Where did this take place?
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) June 14, 2016@BrianLehrer it was via online discussion hosted by Samovar Network. Since shooter was both Afghan descent+Muslim felt it was imp to discuss
— Halema (@_HalemaW) June 14, 2016@BrianLehrer the many layers of collective guilt some of us felt, steps to make our communities more accepting of LGBT, opening up discourse
— Halema (@_HalemaW) June 14, 2016