America has an immense amount of power, but it doesn't use it in any benevolent way. It uses it to maintain a status quo.

Everyone’s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.

People say to you, 'you've changed', or something like that, well, I hope, for the sake of God, that you have changed, because I don't want to be the same person all my life. I want to be growing, I want to be expanding. I want to be changing. Because animate things change, inanimate things don&'t change. Dead things don't change. And the heart should be alive, it should be changing, it should be moving, it should be growing, its knowledge should be expanding.

I think that's deeply rooted in Muslim consciousness, the idea of not submitting to anything other than God. "You can abuse me, but you're not going to win me over. But if you treat me with respect and dignity, I'm going to fall in love with you. I'm going to sing your praises all over the world because you're powerful and you treated me with human dignity."

Opinion is not knowledge. You're entitled to your own opinion but you're not entitled to your own facts.

Muslims are peace-loving people generally. Among the young, yes, there are some militant attitudes. But a lot of it arises out of chivalry.

If Islam is not making you happy, then something is wrong with your Islam