It is not difficult to find a religious justification for killing.

And so, one of the reasons why I started my Charter for Compassion, was to bring the Golden Rule back to the center of religion and morality and not put other's secondary goals, less demand goals, into the forefront.

I remind myself that my pain is not unique. Everybody suffers.

My greatest solace is my study. If I am deprived of my study, I can become lost, unhappy and unhinged.

So, we think about God far to easily and that's because of a lot of social, intellectual, and scientific changes that have taken place in the western world and that has made God very problematic for a lot of people.

Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is found in the life of God itself. They do not do this because it sounds edifying, but because this is the way that human nature seems to work. We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.

The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and put Muslims on the spotlight.