Israel Quotes by Feisal Abdul Rauf

Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

I am a supporter of the state of Israel.

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

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

I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

Islamic law is clearly against terrorism, against any kind of deliberate killing of civilians or similar 'collateral damage.'

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

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

The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

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

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

We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

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

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

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

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

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

There are moderates in Israel. There are moderates in Iran, there are moderates in the Republican Party, moderates in the Democratic Party.…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf