One of America’s Best leaders for promoting interfaith cooperation to young people

usn_logoEboo Patel: Obama Faith Adviser Preaches Religious Tolerance
By Bill George – Posted October 22, 2009

eboo_patel_newsweekEboo Patel, founder of a national movement promoting interfaith religious cooperation and one of President Barack Obama’s advisers on faith, is tackling what he considers the “color line” of the 21st century: the faith line. While Patel’s soft-spoken charm may hide his Rhodes scholar intellect, there is nothing understated about his strikingly ambitious vision for global religious pluralism.

Patel’s goal is to make interfaith cooperation a social norm within just one generation.

“Women’s rights are a social norm today,” he says. “Everyone in America should challenge religious prejudice just like we challenge racial and gender prejudice.”

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Bill George, professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, is author of 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis.

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  1. An excellent and very insightful article by Professor Bill George of Harvard Business School. It speaks eloquently to the strength of Eboo Patel’s vision and his determined leadership. Congratulations Eboo!

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