“ 'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim. Feisal Abdul Rauf
“ 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. Feisal Abdul Rauf
“ 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… Feisal Abdul Rauf
“ The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed innocent civilians in Dresden and dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, neither of… Feisal Abdul Rauf
“ The fundamental idea which defines a human being as a Muslim is the declaration of faith: that there is a creator, whom we call God - or Allah, in Arabic - and that the creator is one and single. And… Feisal Abdul Rauf
“ Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today. Feisal Abdul Rauf
“ I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith, the teachings of the prophet. That's how I trained… Feisal Abdul Rauf
“ 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 peop… Feisal Abdul Rauf
“ I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker. Feisal Abdul Rauf
