A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is.

There's a statement in the Quran: There should be "absolutely no compulsion in religion."

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.

People have to be exposed to Muslims, just experience Muslims; talk to them. Reach out, read about Islam, try to find out about it.

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.

Religion is here to unite us. It's not here to divide us. If it's dividing us, it's not God's religion, it's something else.

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