In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country. — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled,… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today. — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
I as a Muslim want you, as a Christian, to really be a perfect Christian. I want my Jewish friends to be… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
If Muslims curse the Christians, then the Christians will curse the Muslims. And people will curse Allah, and Allah will hold us… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds,… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
What's right with America and what's right with Islam have a lot in common. At their highest levels, both worldviews reflect an… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
The fundamental idea which defines a human being as a Muslim is the declaration of faith: that there is a creator, whom… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
Islamic law is clearly against terrorism, against any kind of deliberate killing of civilians or similar 'collateral damage.' — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
A kind of racism still exists in the United States, and Islamophobia is a more convenient way to express that sentiment. There… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
The opposition tried to brand us as the 'Ground Zero megamosque.' The language was deliberately wordsmithed in order to arouse hostility against… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history,… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith,… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim. — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
“...Religious wars have never produced the downfall of any religion.” — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country. — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization. — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are -… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part,… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today. — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image