I am a supporter of the state of Israel.

Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.

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

I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.

Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.

We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.