I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith, the teachings of the prophet. That's how I trained myself. And then I was appointed imam by a Sufi master from Istanbul, Turkey.

I am a supporter of the state of Israel.

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.

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

Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that leads some to view the world as but a stage on which to play out the great historical drama: the United States of America versus the Powers of Evil.

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