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

~Feisal Abdul Rauf

Topics: Against Any Civilians Clearly Collateral Damage Deliberate Islamic Kind Law Similar Terrorism

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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.

~Feisal Abdul Rauf

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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.

~Feisal Abdul Rauf

Topics: Also Attempt Been Convenient Enemies Exists Express Kind More Muslims Paint Racism Sentiment States Still United United States Way

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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.

~Feisal Abdul Rauf

Topics: Agreed Attachment Desire Emotional Experts Faith Friends Fulfill History Most People Priests Religion Spiritual Spoken The History Of Understanding Who

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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.

~Feisal Abdul Rauf

Topics: City Company Engineer Equipment Industrial Jersey Know Layoffs New New Jersey New York New York City Public Public School Sales School School System Selling Several System Teacher Then Victim Worked Years York You

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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.

~Feisal Abdul Rauf

Topics: Apprentice Around Attended Came Dad Dining Discussions Engaged Father Him Learned Lectures Lunch Many Religion Scholars Surrounded Table Taught Time Visited Way Who Young

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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.

~Feisal Abdul Rauf

Topics: Appointed Different Fields How Islamic Istanbul Knowledge Literature Master Myself Philosophy Poetry Prophet Read Teachings Then Thought Trained Turkey

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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.

~Feisal Abdul Rauf

Topics: Abide American Anywhere Both Deepest Democracy Expresses Government Land Law Muslims Principles Requires Us Values

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I am a supporter of the state of Israel.

~Feisal Abdul Rauf

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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.

~Feisal Abdul Rauf

Topics: Am American American Citizen Born Britain Citizen Egypt Egyptian Great Great Britain Grew Kuwait Lived Malaysia Parents Seventeen Since States United United States Up I Am

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Biography

Nationality: Egyptian

Type: Theologian

Born: Unknown

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