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

I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.