There must be no coercion in matters of faith!

Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.

Religion is a practical discipline and it's one that we have always done, ever since humanity appeared on the scene when Homo sapiens became Homo sapiens. Sapiens became a human being, our minds very naturally segue into transcendence.

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

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

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?

Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.