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• It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.

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  Responsibility, Adventure, Iraq

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. September 8, 2010.

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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 civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.

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  Christian, Military, War

  "West must act to end jihad: Imam" by Frank Walker, www.smh.com.au. March 21, 2004.

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• The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.

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  Government, Law, Land

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• 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.

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  Islamic, Church, Littles

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• 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.

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  Vision, Islam, Heritage

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• Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.

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  Islam, Terrorism, Fanaticism

  60 Minutes, www.nytimes.com. September 30, 2001.

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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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  Terrorism, Committed, Commit

  "Why the Park51 debate remains unresolved" by Elizabeth Samson, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2010.

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• What's right with America and what's right with Islam have a lot in common. At their highest levels, both worldviews reflect an enlightened recognition that all of humankind shares a common Creator - that we are, indeed, brothers and sisters.

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  Brother, America, Islam

  "Imam Rauf: What's right with Islam" by Feisal Abdul Rauf, www.cnn.com. September 12, 2010.

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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 mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.

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  Teacher, New York, School

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• I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.

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  Dad, Father, Lunch

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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, the teachings of the prophet. That's how I trained myself. And then I was appointed imam by a Sufi master from Istanbul, Turkey.

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  Philosophy, Islamic, Teaching

  "Creating A New Vision Of Islam In America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 9, 2012.

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• We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.

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  Hands, Toys, Harmony

  "Quran burning on again? Pastor says maybe". Statement to the press, www.nbcnews.com. September 9, 2010.

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• We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.

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  Blood, Hands, United States

  "Ground Zero Mosque Imam: America Killed More Innocents Than Al Qaeda" by Eric Shawn, www.foxnews.com. August 24, 2010.

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• I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.

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  Believe, Government, Agents

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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. 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.

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  College, Class, People

  Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf (2013). “Moving the Mountain: A New Vision of Islam in America”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Doctors, America, Bankers

  This Week with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. September 12, 2010.

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• I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace.

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  Men, Violence, Made

  "This week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. September 12, 2010.

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• I am a supporter of the state of Israel.

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  Israel, States, Supporter

  "Parsing the Record of Feisal Abdul Rauf". www.nytimes.com. August 21, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Faith, Country, Countries Of The World

  "This week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. September 12, 2010.

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• Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.

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  World, Today, Well Known

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• A kind of racism still exists in the United States, and Islamophobia is a more convenient way to express that sentiment. There has also been an attempt to paint Muslims as enemies of the United States.

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  Racism, Enemy, United States

  "Q&A with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf". Interview with Daniel Burke, www.washingtonpost.com. August 29, 2012.

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• I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.

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  Kuwait, Egypt, Parent

  Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf (2013). “Moving the Mountain: A New Vision of Islam in America”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion was treated as irrelevant, hopelessly stodgy, and behind the times.

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  Religious, College, Rights

  Feisal Abdul Rauf (2012). “Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Christian, People, Responsible

  "Profile: Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the man behind the NYC Islamic center" by Elliot C. McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. September 8, 2010.

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