Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I….

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 world wants to like America. The guiding values that Thomas Jefferson articulated so eloquently - life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness - r….

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….

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….

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..

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 ….

The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims….

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 ….

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….

Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization..

There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion..

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….

My life has been devoted to peacemaking..

Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world..

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….

When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. ….

The sources of human problems have to do with egotism, ‘I.’.

Islamic law is clearly against terrorism, against any kind of deliberate killing of civilians or similar 'collateral damage.'.

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….