Political confusion starts with terminology confusion.

If you read the Qur'an with your head, you find repetition. If you read it with your heart, you find depth.

Tell me what you are doing with your suffering, and I will tell you who you are.

We have to free the Muslim mind from the obsession with limits and rules and forgetting the path and objective. This is truly a liberating process, and for me this is Islam: liberation from the ego, and in this case liberating ourselves from the wrong understanding of the religion.

We can think of solutions in various theoretical ways, but it's not so on the ground. If they don't have a reference that helps them to belong, then they will end up excluding, and through that they get to feel that they belong on the basis of some narrow identity, language or color.

If you are only concerned with international issues and/or the power of some lobbies that are influencing American policy, then you are isolating yourselves. You are powerless in your mind when you don't understand the meaning and quality of your own real power.

What I'm advocating is an intellectual revolution - it's a different mindset concerning the ethical benchmarks by which we live.