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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.

~Feisal Abdul Rauf

Topics: America Arrived Behind Big Big Part Civil Civil Rights College Culture Difficult Difficult Time Even Experienced Extremely Hopelessly Irrelevant Movements Part Peace Religion Religious Rights Serious Shock Someone Though Time Times Treated Upbringing Were 1960S

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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.

~Feisal Abdul Rauf

Topics: American American Movies Beatles College College Students Contrast Culture Elvis Extremely Got Grown Here Influential Join Like Listening Malaysia Middle-Class Movies People Prosperous Saw Somehow Students Third Third World Up Wanted Wanting Watching Western Western Culture Where World

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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.

~Feisal Abdul Rauf

Topics: Challenges Commandment Did Difficult Ethics Faith Get Go Grip Had Identity Life Marriage Most Off Powerful Rails Religion Sense Staying Until Would Young

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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.

~Feisal Abdul Rauf

Topics: Fundamental Heritage History Ideals Islam Mainstream Muslim Muslim World Notion Our Part Ultimate Vision Which World

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The world wants to like America.

~Feisal Abdul Rauf

Topics: America Like Wants World

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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.

~Feisal Abdul Rauf

Topics: America American Arrogance Assert Belief Drama Evil Goodness Great Historical Leads Monopoly Must Out Outgrow Owns Play Powers Some Somehow Stage States Truth United United States United States Of America Us Versus View Which World

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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.

~Feisal Abdul Rauf

Topics: Battle Control Destroy Evil First Gain Good Helping Higher Learn Lower Must Others Ourselves Selves Shining Teach Then Within

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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.

~Feisal Abdul Rauf

Topics: America Both Brothers Brothers And Sisters Common Creator Enlightened Highest Highest Levels Humankind Indeed Islam Levels Lot Recognition Reflect Right Shares Sisters

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I as a Muslim want you, as a Christian, to really be a perfect Christian. I want my Jewish friends to be perfect Jews, to live according to the highest principles of what it means to be a Jew, to be a Christian, to be a Muslim.

~Feisal Abdul Rauf

Topics: According Christian Friends Highest Jew Jewish Jews Live Means Muslim Perfect Principles Really Want You

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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.

~Feisal Abdul Rauf

Topics: Al Blood Forget Hands Innocent More Muslim States Tend Than United United States West Qaeda

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Biography

Nationality: Egyptian

Type: Theologian

Born: Unknown

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