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" America is about choices, including those to live certain lifestyles. "

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" We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe. "

" The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective. "

" For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war. "

" My great, great grandfather, Michael O'Hanson, fled the impending potato famine of Ireland and arrived in America in the early 1840s with his bride, Bridget. They headed for Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love and a mecca for Irish-Catholic immigrants then. "

" The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims. "

" Ideas must counter ideas. You can drop all the bombs you want, but if you don't pull up weeds by their roots, they just grow back. "

" Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace. "

" Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world. "

" I would rather live as a Muslim in the West than in most of the Muslim countries, because I think the way Muslims are allowed to live in the West is closer to the Muslim way. "

" To be aware of others' accomplishments and the indebtedness we have to so many people is to appreciate and begin to respect all members of the human family. "

" Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery. "

" My alignment is with what I perceive as just and fair. If it's with the Muslims, then I'm with the Muslims, if it's with the West then I'm with the West. It's about justice and fairness. "

" In being aware of others' hunger, we contribute to a more empathic world. "

" The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies. "

" The Jews would have us believe that God had this bias to this little small tribe in the middle of the Sinai Desert, and all the rest of humanity is just rubbish. I mean, that is the basic doctrine of the Jewish religion, and that's why it is a most racist religion. "

" Stop taking pictures and start experiencing life. "

" You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people. "

" God is much greater than anything we can imagine. "

" ISIS is very similar to the Kharijites, who were a toxic off-shoot of Islam. It's not Islam; it's a perversion of Islam, and to label these militant externalities as Islam is to legitimize their actions. "

" You don't fight ideas with bombs. "

" Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for women. This is a cultural issue, not an Islamic one. "

" Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it. "

" The human family is a great one, and the Muslim branch is certainly worth knowing. "

" Every day, my love for Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, increases. "

" I don't align myself with the West of the Muslim world. I align myself with what I perceive to be just and in accordance with my principles - the principles that I live my life by which are universal principles and that are embodied in the religion of Islam. "

" We want to counter the idea that Muslims and non-Muslims can't live together. This is not who we are or who we want to be. "

" The true object of war fought for God should always be peace. "

" The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies. "

" Live your lives. Go out; take walks amongst trees. "