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. Feisal Abdul Rauf Read Quote
The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government… Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land. Feisal Abdul Rauf Read Quote
I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen. Feisal Abdul Rauf Read Quote
When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion was treated as irrelevant, hopelessly stodgy, and behind the times. Feisal Abdul Rauf Read Quote
You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I’ll take the best of Christianity … From there we can build. Feisal Abdul Rauf Read Quote
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. Feisal Abdul Rauf Read Quote
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 in – in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers. Feisal Abdul Rauf Read Quote
In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country. Feisal Abdul Rauf Read Quote
The battleground has been moderates of all faith traditions in all the countries of the world against the radicals of all faith traditions in all parts of the world. Feisal Abdul Rauf Read Quote
