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Feisal Abdul Rauf

Feisal Abdul Rauf (Arabic: فيصل عبد الرؤوف‎, born 1948) is an Egyptian American Sufi imam, author, and activist whose stated goal is to improve relations between the Muslim world and the West. From 1983 to 2009, he served as Imam of Masjid al-Farah, a mosque in New York City. He has written three books on Islam and its place in contemporary Western society, including What's Right with Islam Is What's Right with America, and founded two non-profit organizations whose stated missions are to enhance the discourse on Islam in society.

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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.

Commit, Committed, Everyone, Hamas, Terrorism

When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion was treated as irrelevant, hopelessly stodgy, and behind the times.

America, College, Religious, Times, Treated

Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.

Challenges, Commandment, Difficult, Ethics, Identity, Powerful

Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

Bigotry, Civilized Society, Community, Society, World

There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.

Names, Peculiar, People, Things, Think, Thinking

I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.

Citizen, Egypt, Egyptian, Kuwait, Parent, United

The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.

Brother, Excuse, Faith, People, Sisters, Truth

We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.

Build, Hands, Harmony, Peace, Toys

Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the creator.

Islam, Men, Relationship, Submission

In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.

Country, Fact, Facts, Happy, Muslims, Polls

I am a supporter of the state of Israel.

Israel, State, States, Supporter

The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history, part of the fundamental, mainstream ideals of Islam.

Heritage, Ideals, Islam, Mainstream, Vision

What's right with America and what's right with Islam have a lot in common. At their highest levels, both worldviews reflect an enlightened recognition that all of humankind shares a common Creator - that we are, indeed, brothers and sisters.

America, Brother, Creator, Enlightened, Islam, Levels

God says in the Quran that there is only one true religion, God's religion. It's the same theme that God revealed to all of the prophets, even before Muhammad.

Muhammad, Prophet, Quran, Revealed, Says

We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.

Blood, Forget, Hands, Innocent, States, United States

The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a little complicated. But we do have a tradition of scholarship, and rules of scholarship. It's very much like any field of knowledge.

Church, Complicated, Islamic, Littles, Priesthood, Tradition

Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

Agenda, Individual, Organization, Political, Target, Targets

I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.

Know, New York, School, Several, System, Teacher

Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.

America, Enemy, Extremism, Radicalism, Real

The sources of human problems have to do with egotism, ‘I. ’

Egotism, Human, Problem, Problems, Source, Sources

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