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52 quotes by Feisal Abdul Rauf

Feisal Abdul Rauf (Arabic: فيصل عبد الرؤوف , born 1948) is an American Sufi imam, author, and activist whose stated goal is to improve relations between the Muslim world and the West. From 1983 to 2009, he served as Imam of Masjid al-Farah, a mosque in New York City. He has written three books on Islam and its place in contemporary Western society, including What's Right with Islam Is What's Right with America, and founded two non-profit...
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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... →

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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... →

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In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies.... →

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Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.

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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... →

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Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.

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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... →

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Islamic law is clearly against terrorism, against any kind of deliberate killing of civilians or similar 'collateral damage.'

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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... →

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If Muslims curse the Christians, then the Christians will curse the Muslims. And people will curse Allah, and Allah will hold us responsible for that.

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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... →

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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.

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I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith... →

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