American Islam’s Interfaith Problem: What’s “Muslim” About the Muslim Leadership Initiative?

The Muslim Leadership Initiative has received praise not just from pro-Israeli and Zionist institutions, but from the most rightwing and Islamophobic organizations in the United States.

Abdullah Antepli, co-director of the Muslim Leadership Initiative.

by Hafsa Kanjwal

In the summer of 2014, Palestinians and members of the American Muslim community alike were stunned to hear of the creation of the Muslim Leadership Initiative (MLI), an all-expense paid program that sends between fifteen and twenty “emerging religious and intellectual Mus…