Waleed basyouni biography of christopher

Shaykh Waleed Basyouni has earned a death sentence as far as the Islamic State is concerned.

That's because Basyouni knows what it takes to stop ISIS from gaining new members: Expand community cooperation among different religious groups across the world.

Retired FBI agent Pat Villafranca and national Muslim community leader Basyouni came together to address community building and the importance of marginalizing extremists at Vanderbilt University Friday, just two days before the anniversary of 9/11.

Basyouni, of Houston, is vice president of the AlMaghrib Institute, and Villafranca was most recently a community outreach specialist for the FBI. The Muslim Students Association and the American Muslim Advisory Council partnered together to host the guest speakers at the event.

According to Basyouni, one of the greatest challenges this nation faces is not Islam, but the polarizing effect that hatred and intoler