I've Spoken With Friends Who Are Rabbis

One Of The Misperceptions That Exists In The Muslim World, Which Needs To Be Fixed, Is The Perception That Muslims In America Are - Are - Are Living In - In Very, Very, Very Bad Circumstances. They Cannot Practice Religion Freely. It Is Not The Truth At All. The Fact Is, We Are Practicing. We Fast, We Pray, We Do Our Prayers.

We Are Americans. We - We - We Are - We Are Doctors. We Are Investment Bankers. We Are Taxi Drivers. We Are Store Keepers. We Are Lawyers. We Are - We Are Part Of The Fabric Of America. And The Way That America Today Treats Its Muslims Is Being Watched By Over A Billion Muslims Worldwide.

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.

Koran Says Whoever Believes In God In The Last Day Shall Be Saved. It Is A Religion Whose Very Name, Islam, Comes From The Word Shalom, Which Means Peace. It's About Establishing Peace. We Greet Each Other With Peace Be Upon You, Which The Jews Do In Greeting Each Other.

There Are Moderates In Israel. There Are Moderates In Iran, There Are Moderates In The Republican Party, Moderates In The Democratic Party. What We Need To Do Is We Need Link All Of These Moderates Together And To Figure Out A Way By Which This Particular Coalition Can Speak To Important Issues To Marginalize The Voice Of The Extremists.