If you had one word to describe the root of all this rage, it's humiliation.

If you take a child and you throw the child up there is a point where you see this, they go into this state of complete panic and then when they come back to your arms they are laughing. That is dunya, I guarantee you, that moment, that is your life, you came from God and you are going back to God and there is just a moment when you are in a complete state of panic but just relax, you are in good hands. Just relax.

I know that people can live celibate lives, I did it myself for many years.

There are 20,000 Muslim physicians in the United States, Americans putting their lives in the hands of Muslims every day.

In the Communist period, the revolutionaries, the leaders were almost always - Che Guevara, people like that - they were always from the middle class and the educated. And empathy is a very powerful emotion.

Islam is based on naql (texts) and ‘aql (intellect). Some people just have the texts – we call them naql-heads.

There are irrational fears. If you see a woman wearing a hijab and fear is your first thought, something's really wrong.