If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it.

In my book Radical Reform I made it clear that we cannot talk about the environment or ecology if we don't also deal with the economy. There is a direct link between how we deal with the economy and how we deal with nature.

Pray in the night so that you can change the world in the day

Islam can only be modernized from within. If I state that I condemn the practice of stoning, that this punishment is despicable, it changes nothing. My fellow Muslims will say: Brother Tariq, you became a European, a Swiss citizen, so you are no longer one of us.

I have learned that one should say "Peace!" to those who shout their hatred for one's being and presence or at one's passage.

As Western Muslims and American Muslims, we need to understand that the values and principles we promote are not only Muslim values. American Muslims live in a country where justice, dignity, freedom and equality are essential values.

Our task is to change the world for the better, not to adapt ourselves to the world.