"Islam has always been a part of America’s story.... And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States."
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"Doctrines like Christianity or Islam or Marxism require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions."
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"All people hope Islam helps everything in life. Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam will make everything."
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"A remarkable feature of Islam is that it gives dignity even to the humblest illiterate peasants. It gives them a certain human dignity which one doesn't find in other societies."
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"The level of vitriol against Jews and Christianity within contemporary Islam, unfortunately, is something that we are not totally cognizant of, or that we don't want to accept. We don't want to accept it because to do so would be to acknowledge that one of the world's great religions -- which has more than 1.4 billion adherents -- somehow sanctions genocide, planned genocide, as part of its religious doctrine."
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"I believe what I practice has to do with something deeper than religion, that it embodies all religions, including Judaism. And Christianity. And Islam."
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"The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence."
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"For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would be for Mussalmans to have only Islam of their imagination rule the world."
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"I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity."
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"There is a coalition of anti-Semitism today, the extreme left, the extreme right and in the middle the huge corpus of Islam. I'm worried, I go around with a very heavy heart."
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"Islam does give human dignity, certainly. The point I wanted to make is that it is great foolishness to try to impose our notions of democracy. They have their own traditions."
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"I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are."
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"One of the main things that I read about it that appealed to me was in Islam a man is honored as a human being and not measured by the color of his skin."
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"White people whom I have met, who have accepted Islam, they don't regard themselves as white but as human beings."
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"At this point I hadn't yet gotten deep into the historic condition that negroes in this country are confronted with, but at that point in my prison studies I, I read, I studied Islam as a religion more so than as I later come to know it in its connection with the plight or problem of Negroes in this country."
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"[Islam] is not measured by the color of his skin."
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"America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists."
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"Al Qaeda, the Taliban, a whole host of networks that are bent on attacking America, who have a distorted ideology, who have perverted the faith of Islam, and so we have to go after them."
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"We are not at war against Islam."
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"The Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out."
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