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Obama appoints First Ismaili Muslim Eboo Patel to his Inter Faith Council - 2009-02-11
Posted February 16th, 2009 by heritage
Eboo Patel was featured on FACES OF FAITH ( Promoting Religious Tolerance ) Interview on CNN.
Washington: The US President, Barack Obama, on Thursday appointed an Indian American to his new advisory council on inter faith relationships.
Eboo S Patel, founder and executive director of the Chicago-based Interfaith Youth Corps, would be a member of the President's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
The council announced Thursday it would have 25 members, who will be appointed for a one-year term. However, fifteen members to the council were announced today.
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Faith and Pluralism - 2006
Lecture by Mahmood Eboo at Chataqua on Dec 11, 2006
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SPEECH AT THE SIGNING OF THE FUNDING AGREEMENT FOR THE GLOBAL CENTRE FOR PLURALISM - 2006-10-25
Posted July 10th, 2007 by heritage
Bismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Rahim
Prime Minister Harper
Honorable Ministers
Your Excellencies
Distinguished Guests
Ladies and Gentlemen
It was just eighteen months ago that the Government of Canada announced its decision to partner with the Ismaili Imamat and the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) in our Global Centre for Pluralism. What we welcomed at that time was a multi-faceted partnership—financial, yes, but also institutional and intellectual.
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2006-03-03-euro
February 12, 2006 Evora, Portugal: H. H. The Aga Khan speaking at the symposium said,"But even to attribute the problem to ignorance is in no way to minimise its importance, he said. “In a pluralistic world, the consequences of ignorance can be profoundly damaging.
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