Occupation: Imam Birth: 1948
Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the creator..
Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism..
One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living ….
There are moderates in Israel. There are moderates in Iran, there are moderates in the Republican Party, moderates in the Democratic Party. What we n….
When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. ….
I as a Muslim want you, as a Christian, to really be a perfect Christian. I want my Jewish friends to be perfect Jews, to live according to the highe….
There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by th….
The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No reli….
Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means p….
The world wants to like America. The guiding values that Thomas Jefferson articulated so eloquently - life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness - r….
Islamic law is clearly against terrorism, against any kind of deliberate killing of civilians or similar 'collateral damage.'.
Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil ….
Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world..
God says in the Quran that there is only one true religion, God's religion. It's the same theme that God revealed to all of the prophets, even before….
Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization..
The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims….
'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim..
Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that le….
It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glo….
The fundamental idea which defines a human being as a Muslim is the declaration of faith: that there is a creator, whom we call God - or Allah, in Ar….
What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but als….