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  • In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
    - Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • The battleground has been moderates of all faith traditions in all the countries of the world against the radicals of all faith traditions in all parts of the world.
    - Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
    - Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World.
    - Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.
    - Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history, part of the fundamental, mainstream ideals of Islam.
    - Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • The world wants to like America.
    - 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 which were military targets.
    - Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
    - Feisal Abdul Rauf