To be more precise, it's ethics and liberation, and as a consequence there is an ethics of liberation.

If you do your work, if you are committed at the grassroots level, if you have a vision for the long run (not only short-sighted interest), you can change public opinion.

We must re-center philosophy within our frame of reference which I think is the way to deal with it.

What we have within the Sunni tradition is this clash between the literalists and all the other trends and the Salafi movement, that are very much acting on the ground and using the popular sentiment to act against the West.

It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

As Muslims the way we show respect to the creator is by respecting creation and this is why we have to reconcile ourselves with the objectives of the Revelation and the objective is really to honor nature as part of Creation.

It is important that the Muslim leaders, scholars, and intellectuals are much more vocal and explain what Islam is.