US to employ new approach to win over Muslims: Envoy

Farah Pandith, America’s first special envoy to the Muslim communities. Obama says Honduran ouster was ‘not legal’ WASHINGTON: The Obama administration wants to engage the Muslims in a way that is innovative, dynamic and out of the box, says Farah Pandith, America’s first special envoy to the Muslim communities. The main objective behind the administration’s new strategy is to 'know the next generation of (Muslim) thinkers. And in this role I’ll be doing that,' Pandith told a briefing in Washington. Farah Pandith is a Muslim-American, born in the Indian-occupied Kashmir. Her parents immigrated to the United States when she was an infant. Former president George W. Bush hired Ms Pandith in early 2007 as his senior adviser for Muslim engagement in the European and Eurasian region. She has also worked for the US National... [read full story]                    

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