My Life Has Been Devoted To Peacemaking.

The Sources Of Human Problems Have To Do With Egotism, ‘i.’

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.

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.

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.

Bigotry Toward Any Faith Community Cannot Have Any Place In Civilized Society Anywhere In The World.