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

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

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

In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.

Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.

I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace.

The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.