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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" To the solace of his name, simply saying 'Muhammad' has an incredibly soothing effect on me. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous. "

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

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" Hunger can bring out the worst in us. "

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" 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. "

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

" Stop taking pictures and start experiencing life. "

" A tree grows. If you're staying the same, something is wrong. You're not alive. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Our duty is to be patient. "

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

" Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "