The Battleground Has Been Moderates Of All

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.

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.

There Are Always People Who Will - Who Will Do Peculiar Things And Think That They Are Doing Things In The Name Of Their Religion.

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 Myself. And Then I Was Appointed Imam By A Sufi Master From Istanbul, Turkey.

Americans Must Outgrow The Unbecoming Arrogance That Leads Us To Assert That America Somehow Owns A Monopoly On Goodness And Truth - A Belief That Leads Some To View The World As But A Stage On Which To Play Out The Great Historical Drama: The United States Of America Versus The Powers Of Evil.