{"id":1448,"date":"2013-04-30T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/04\/can-interfaith-dialogue-cure-religious-violence.html"},"modified":"2013-04-30T19:56:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T19:56:00","slug":"can-interfaith-dialogue-cure-religious-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/04\/can-interfaith-dialogue-cure-religious-violence.html","title":{"rendered":"Can Interfaith Dialogue Cure Religious Violence?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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In the wake of the Boston Bombings, Eboo Patel, public intellectual and director of the Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), has proposed, in a recent\u00a0article<\/a>\u00a0on HuffPo, that this explosive violence resulted partly from a failure of interfaith dialogue.<\/span><\/div>\n
With the caveat that \u201cinterfaith programs are not a miracle solution,\u201d he offers three ways that this work can help:<\/span><\/div>\n
First, \u201cinterfaith helps harmonize people\u2019s identities.\u201d Patel goes on:\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cIn America, just about everyone is some sort of hyphenated hybrid of race, religion and ethnicity\/nationality\u2026 Religious extremists try to separate people\u2019s various identities and pit them against each other.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Patel suggests that the Tsarnaev brothers might have been less vulnerable to extremism if they \u201chad been involved in discussions with people from other backgrounds about how their faith identity was mutually enriching with their nationality and citizenship.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
Second, Patel notes that \u201cinterfaith efforts\u201d will discourage Americans from casting blanket suspicions on Muslims. \u201cInterfaith efforts,\u201d he writes, \u201chelp us to separate the worst elements of communities from the rest.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
Third, in general, \u201cinterfaith efforts remind us America is about welcoming the contributions of all communities and nurturing cooperation between them.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
Such assertions make sense. For many people\u2014especially those who are not white Christians\u2014joining a liberal interfaith organization might be a matter of survival in light of a \u201cWar on Terror\u201d that has made primary targets out of black and brown bodies. This is especially true when we consider widespread abuse directed at people\u00a0profiled<\/a>\u00a0as Muslim or Arab\u2014a response that began before the second bomb had even exploded.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
But I think we should be cautious about attempts to frame the Boston bombings, or for that matter any profound act of violence, mainly as a failure of (or an injunction toward) \u201cinterfaith cooperation.\u201d There are four questions worth raising:<\/span><\/div>\n
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In the wake of the Boston Bombings, Eboo Patel, public intellectual and director of the Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), has proposed, in a recent\u00a0article\u00a0on HuffPo, that this explosive violence resulted partly from a failure of interfaith dialogue. 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