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How to Defeat Political and Religious Extremism

On the podcast: A former State Department official who led the outreach to the Muslim world after the 9/11 attacks.

By , the executive editor for podcasts at Foreign Policy.
Farah Pandith on April 6, 2016. (Jemal Countess/Getty Images/Foreign Policy illustration)
Farah Pandith on April 6, 2016. (Jemal Countess/Getty Images/Foreign Policy illustration)
Farah Pandith on April 6, 2016. (Jemal Countess/Getty Images/Foreign Policy illustration)

Ever since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. administrations have tried to both root out terrorist groups that pervert Islam and simultaneously reach out to the Muslim world.

Ever since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. administrations have tried to both root out terrorist groups that pervert Islam and simultaneously reach out to the Muslim world.

Behind much of that outreach effort was Farah Pandith, a State Department official who served under several presidents, including George H.W. Bush and Barack Obama. Pandith is a Muslim American who immigrated to the United States as a child from Kashmir, India. She is also the author of a new book, How We Win: How Cutting-Edge Entrepreneurs, Political Visionaries, Enlightened Business Leaders, and Social Media Mavens Can Defeat the Extremist Threat.

Pandith is our guest on First Person this week.

 

Tags: Religion, United States

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