Women Engaged in Bridge
Building (WEBB)
WEBB germinated in 2001 at a conference in Milan, Italy
as a vision of creating a European-based network of women
dedicated to building a bridge between the Muslim world and
the West. There are three major purposes of this network.
First, WEBB seeks to disseminate correct information about
Islam and Muslims in the West. Second, Webb seeks to educate
and empower "the silent majority" of Muslims who
are moderate, in Pakistan and other Muslim countries. Last,
WEBB seeks to facilitate constructive dialogue between open-minded
non-Muslim Westerners and Muslims, as well as within Muslim
communities between women and men and other groups that appeared
to be opposed to one another. Together these measures serve
to build bridges across the schisms and chasms of misperceptions
that separate non-Muslims from Muslims and marginalized groups
of Muslims from the ones with privilege and power.
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