My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.

There is no "true Islam," just different interpretations.

People are fundamentally good. But conditions deteriorate them.

I want to take my American friends back to the end of World War II, when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was formulated. A group of thinkers met to come up with ways and means to prevent yet another war. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt played a crucial role in assembling this group of people. And that is why the name of the United States is synonymous with the cause of human rights around the world.

Europe clearly is the only place where people can speak up critically, and this is a unique cultural value.

It is totally unacceptable for a government to interfere in the internal affairs of another government and send aid, money, and weapons, to the people who are against a certain regime in another country.

My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.