Safa Rifka
Safa Rifka is the chair of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. This group condemned the Muhammad cartoons, calling them hateful and racist. ADC lists state chapters.
Region: Washington, D.C.
Salam Al-Marayati
Salam Al-Marayati is president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council. The group condemned both the Danish cartoons and the violence they spawned.
Nihad Awad
Nihad Awad is executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
John Esposito
John Esposito is founding director of Georgetown University’s Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and professor of religion and international affairs and of Islamic studies at Georgetown. He is an expert on global terrorism, Islam and democracy, and international interfaith relations. His publications include Islamaphobia: The Challenges of Pluralism in the 21st Century and Islam: The Straight Path; The Oxford Dictionary of Islam; Unholy War: […]
Religious Studies in Secondary Schools
Religious Studies in Secondary Schools, a coalition of public and private Catholic secondary school teachers, has held workshops about the connection between religion and ecology.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Seyyed Hossein Nasr is a world-renowned scholar on Islam who teaches Islamic studies at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. His writings include Man and Nature: The Spiritual Crisis in Modern Man and The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity. Much of his work focuses on Islamic spiritual values, but he has also written about the religious […]
Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life
The Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life concentrates on addressing climate change and encouraging sustainable congregations. Its national partners are the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and the National Religious Partnership for the Environment.
National Religious Partnership for the Environment
The National Religious Partnership for the Environment is an alliance of major faith groups and denominations across the spectrum of Jewish and Christian communities and organizations in the United States. Its four founding partners are the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Evangelical Environmental Network, Creation Justice Ministries and the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life.