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" 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. "

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

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

" September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger. "

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

" 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. "

" If you don't have religious fallibilism, you have immense problems. "

" I think the Hajj tends to reflect the state of the Ummah. That's one of the things about the Hajj is that you get to see the Ummah. It's a microcosm of the Ummah's condition. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Katrina did much more damage than anything the terrorists could ever put together. "

" All of the people are the dependents of Allah. "

" I think all this Facebook stuff should just stop! "

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

" We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts. "

" Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility. "

" I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect. "

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

" Muslims are not ashamed of their Prophet's teaching about war. On the contrary, for us it is a great source of pride. "

" Corruption is rife in the Muslim world, and when it is coupled with the marginalization of religion, it manifests itself as frustration and becomes a fertile recruiting ground for extremism. "

" As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them. "

" The thing I love most about going to a book store is the self-help section is the biggest section because Americans know we're screwed up. We know it. But we want to get better. "

" Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another. "

" When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" We Muslims in the West, like Jews before us, grapple with the same issues that Jews of the past did: integration or isolation, tradition or reform, intermarriage or intra-marriage. "

" I think that the idea of a war on an abstract noun is unacceptable. "

" Hunger can bring out the worst in us. "