The Thing About The Islamic Situation Is

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.