At a national iftar at the Islamic Cultural Centre, Shuja Shafi, secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said: "The best way to defy the terrorist is to increase our bonds of unity, not to single out any one group of people for blame or opprobrium, especially if they had nothing to do with such carnage and have actively spoken out against it".
A disclaimer: I'm someone who has actively backed his campaign, and spoken at some of his rallies.
"I think it is largely innocent," says Rachel Sklar, a New York writer and entrepreneur who has actively protested against digital conferences that invite too few women to speak.
Princeton University also "has actively and successfully challenged the use of its name in the past," said Martin A. Mbugua, speaking on behalf of the university.
Mr Bergdahl has previously spoken openly about his efforts to engross himself in Afghan culture out of "solidarity" with his son, and has actively campaigned for the closure of the Cuba-based US detention facility Guantanamo Bay.
Ms. Burwell, who is black and has actively supported affirmative action programs in the past, said she had been approached on the steps of a downtown library by a young black man who spoke of justice for minorities.
The hospitalised MDR patient mentioned above also described how when other TB patients heard of his TB status, they had actively separated themselves from him, speaking to him very little and had asked for his bed to be moved away from theirs.
When I spoke to Karzai in Kabul, not long before the riots, he told me repeatedly that Afghans had actively sought close ties to the United States.
But the schools — particularly ones with lagging enrollment — have actively sought an international component and parents who can pay full tuition, even if that means accepting students who speak limited English.
