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Building Bridges to the Muslim World
Sitting atop most of the world’s oil reserves, all of it in religious ferment, most of it estranged from the West, some of it a source and haven for international terrorism—the Muslim world today is one of the most powerful, and certainly the least stable, player on the world scene.
The dangerous divide between the Muslim world and the West continues to widen. Some of that is the inevitable consequence of jihadism—the ultraconservative forces now resurgent in Islam. Some of it is the war in Iraq. Some of it is Israel/Palestine. Some of it is the continuing lack of sensitivity of each side to the other.
Whatever the causes, clearly it’s important for the stability and well-being of the world that this dangerous divide be bridged as much as possible. This effort has been a focus of John Graham’s international work for the last six years. It has focused on working with Initiatives of Change (IC), a major force in helping build bridges between the Muslim world and the West.
Most recently, Graham, through Giraffe Heroes International, has begun a partnership with the Karimia Institute in Nottingham, UK (see "Dealing with Muslim/non-Muslim Tensions in Great Britain")
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