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وَمَا
أَرْسَلْنَاكَ
إِلَّا رَحْمَةً
لِّلْعَالَمِينَ
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“Muslims themselves can and must propagate
an understanding of the ‘right’ Islam, and thereby discredit
extremist ideology. Yet to accomplish this task requires the
understanding and support of like-minded individuals, organizations
and governments throughout the world. Our
goal must be to illuminate the hearts and minds of humanity,
and offer a compelling alternate vision of Islam, one that
banishes the fanatical ideology of hatred to the darkness
from which it emerged.” |
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“[T]he world's most potent and innovative
anti-extremist network” |
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“LibForAll Foundation... aims to present
the moderate and tolerant face of Islam, and explain the importance
of [Muslims] returning to the essence of Islamic teachings
which, until now, have been poorly understood by many groups
[both in Islam and the West].” |
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“LibForAll itself is a model
of what a competent public diplomacy effort in the Muslim
world should look like.” |
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LibForAll co-founder C.
Holland Taylor is linking moderate Muslim leaders “in a network
of lighthouses within the Islamic world that will promote
tolerance and freedom of thought and worship.” |
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“[O]ne of the rare
success stories of an initiative in which moderate and liberal
Muslims—too often the silent and disorganized majority—have
organized effectively to counter radical Islamist groups by
promoting democracy and tolerance.” |
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Nasr
Hamid Abu-Zayd
(1943 – 2010)
A year-long study
by the Centre for Asymmetric Threat Studies identifies LibForAll
as "exceptional," citing its track record of "selecting
methods with maximum impact and that reach the largest possible
audience."
“Pathbreaking”
Exposé Helps
Derail Extremist Agenda!
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LibForAll plans and executes its programs
in cooperation with like-minded Muslim leaders in the fields of religion,
education, popular culture, government, business and the media, and
is systematically building a global counter-extremism network that
unites top Muslim opinion leaders in each of these fields. This, in
turn, enables LibForAll to extend its reach to a grassroots level,
and helps eliminate the underlying causes of terrorism ~
by reconciling and integrating traditional Muslim societies with the
contemporary world.
LibForAll's world-class achievements
and leadership role have been widely praised by international policy
experts, government leaders and blue-chip media outlets, who regard
LibForAll as the pioneer in developing and operationalizing
an effective counter-radicalization strategy worldwide.
A window of opportunity exists to deepen and expand these remarkably
successful programs, and to launch new initiatives, country-by-country,
throughout the Muslim world. Your support
can help make this possible.
Leading Democrat and Republican senators
unite in praising LibForAll's pioneering work.
“The world's
most populous Muslim nation has, for an entire day, become a showplace
for a hitherto unique religious conference: the gathering
on the holiday island of Bali concerned itself entirely with religious
tolerance and recognizing Nazi persecution of Jews as an historical
reality. Indonesia thereby consciously seeks to distance itself
from fundamentalist and radical spirits.”
~
Die Welt
(Germany)
"A firewall against terror in Islam's
name"
~
Aftonbladet (Sweden)
"There are very few books that can
be called 'the book'. Undoubtedly 'The
Illusion of an Islamic State' is one of them."
~
New Europe
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Nahdlatul Ulama/LibForAll
Delegation
visits Europe
to inject a much-needed
“solution-oriented”
perspective into the public
debate on Islam, Muslims
and “violent extremism.”
The
Grand Shaykh of al-Azhar blesses and supports LibForAll's mission
to promote a pluralistic and tolerant understanding of Islam, at
peace with itself and the modern world.
LibForAll hosts an historic religious
summit in Bali, whose participants affirm religious tolerance
as a "blessing for all creation."
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See how pop culture is helping to
rescue an entire generation of young Muslims from extremists who
seek to turn them into "holy warriors" and suicide bombers,
and listen to a "musical
fatwa" against religious hatred & terrorism that became
the #1 hit in the country with the world's largest Muslim population.
The unique effectiveness of LibForAll’s "Musical
Jihad" program has been validated by renowned security experts
and international organizations, including the United Nations and
the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and has
been featured in numerous blue-chip international media outlets
including CNN,
the
Wall Street Journal, Rolling
Stone,
Time, the
Washington Post, the Sydney
Morning Herald and Serviam
magazine.
“This Muslim Rocker Preaches Tolerance to a Strong Drumbeat.” LibForAll
board member Ahmad Dhani is “creating his own jihad – for moderate
Islam.”
~ Wall Street Journal
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“A Muslim Solution
to Terror” Watch video now!
Listen
to a "musical fatwa" against religious hatred and
terrorism that soared
to #1 on Indonesian radio
and MTV Asia!
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“Education that teaches tolerance, the dignity and value
of each individual, and respect for different beliefs is a key element
in any global strategy to eliminate Islamist terrorism.”
~ The 9/11 Commission Report
Working with top educators, religious clerics, celebrities and
other opinion leaders, LibForAll provides education on pluralism
and tolerance to tens of millions of Muslim youth in both traditional
and non-traditional settings, through a variety of media including
books, articles, music, video/television and the internet. |
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LibForAll Foundation works
closely with many who embody the Islamic tradition of mysticism
and tolerance, as well as their counterparts from other
faiths.
LibForAll's
highly-innovative programs tap into an enormous reservoir of Muslim
spiritual and cultural authority that can help dampen, and ultimately
extinguish, the fires of religious extremism that now rage throughout
the Islamic world.
As LibForAll
Advisor K.H. Mustofa
Bisri has observed: “You can’t extinguish fire with fire.
It takes water.” You can't extinguish hated with hatred.
It takes love (agape), born of a profoundly spiritual view of life. |
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Our strategy
is inspired by the example of ancient Javanese culture, which triumphed
over radical Islamist attempts to annihilate it 500 years ago.
In doing so, it produced the most liberal and tolerant variant of
Islam found anywhere on earth, and a paradigm for defeating the
ideology of hatred that underlies and animates terrorism.
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Federally-recognized
Nonprofit Organization
The LibForAll Foundation is a federally-recognized
501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the culture
of liberty and tolerance worldwide. It was incorporated in North
Carolina and operates under its bylaws and board of directors. Contributions
are tax-deductible to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Success
Depends on Your Support
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