Pastoral Resources

My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.

I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam.

Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me.

I made the film to bring the story of Islam, the story of 700 million of people, to the West.

All people hope Islam helps everything in life. Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam will make everything.

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and put Muslims on the spotlight.

The idea is that they wouldn't want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So that's what we are doing here.

We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.

The only model to follow is pure Islam.

The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.

There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.

We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?

We should be proud that our Prophet came into the world with the message of Islam to change it for the better, and not for the worse, or to keep things as they are.

Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.