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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Hunger can bring out the worst in us. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Radicalization is very easy when you mock what people hold dear. "

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

" You don't fight ideas with bombs. "

" I know that people can live celibate lives. I did it myself for many years. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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