Crowne Plaza Hotel
Addison, TX
10:00 am - Opening introductions.
Attendants introduced themselves to one another.
11:00 am - Beginning of presentations by MPJP staff members.
1. (11:00am-11:10am)
- Spoke about the compelling need for American Muslims to
create a visionary leadership in order to promote constructive
engagement, conflict resolution and people-to-people dialogue, and to
help create a powerful environment of diplomacy. A conducive environment
charged with diplomacy could eventually marginalize or even substitute
costly bloody military engagements. For that cause, we,
Muslim Americans, should outreach to the American public and the civil
society to support us and to work side by side with us. Most
importantly, we must recognize the critical time we live IN and the
situation that American Muslims are in today. There exists a vacuum for
dialogue between America and the Muslim
world. A forceful intermediary could play a critical role as a catalyst.
We, American Muslims, are the ‘common denominator’ of the two most vital
and polarized segments of humanity. We must fill in this vacuum in order
to bring about a new direction of constructive engagement between the
East and the West. Read more »