Feisal Abdul Rauf

“...Religious wars have never produced the downfall of any religion.”

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then…

— 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

I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

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

— 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

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 individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled,…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

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.…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

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

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

The world wants to like America.

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

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

I am a supporter of the state of Israel.

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

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

My life has been devoted to peacemaking.

— 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

In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

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

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 truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

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

When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf