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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 religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.

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  Brother, Truth, People

  "What's Right with Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West". Book by Feisal Abdul Rauf, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2004.

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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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  Real, America, Enemy

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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 peace. It's about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other.

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  Believe, Mean, Names

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• Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.

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  Self, Evil Within, Shining

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

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• My life has been devoted to peacemaking.

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  Peacemaking, Has Beens, Devoted

  "Larry King Live" with Soledad O'Brien, transcripts.cnn.com. September 8, 2010.

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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, even before Muhammad.

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  Quran, Muhammad, Prophet

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• 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.

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  Party, Voice, Issues

  "Creating A New Vision Of Islam In America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 09, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Powerful, Challenges, Identity

  Feisal Abdul Rauf (2012). “Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• The sources of human problems have to do with egotism, ‘I.’

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  Problem, Source, Egotism

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• Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

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  Community, World, Civilized Society

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• What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also the independence of the military from civilians, an independent media and press, an independent central bank.

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  Military, Independent, Media

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• 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.

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  Men, Islam, Submission

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• There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.

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  Thinking, Names, People

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

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

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  Islamic, Law, Damage

  "What's Right With Islam Is What's Right With America". Book by Feisal Abdul Rauf, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2004.

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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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• The world wants to like America. The guiding values that Thomas Jefferson articulated so eloquently - life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness - resonate strongly around the world, transcending countless superficial and cultural differences, not because these are American values, but because they are universal values, embedded in the human heart.

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  America, World, Want

  "Imam Rauf: What's right with Islam". "TEDTalk Tuesdays", www.cnn.com. September 12, 2010.

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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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• 'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.

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  War, Struggle, Mean

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• 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.

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  Drama, Views, Play

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

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• Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

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  Organization, Political, Target

  "Ground Zero mosque' imam sets the record straight on 'Hannity". "The Sean Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. May 23, 2012.

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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 Arabic - and that the creator is one and single. And we declare this faith by the declaration of faith, where we... bear witness that there is no God but God.

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  Ideas, Fundamentals, Bears

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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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• 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 spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.

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  Country, Facts, Polls

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

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