“All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.”

I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.

Democracy can be sustained and developed only by people who understand its essence.

I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.

Defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.

If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states

I do not like violence.

Defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.

Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam.

If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.

You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you’ve got a tough road ahead of you.

Developing wisdom in community is to constantly learn and relearn that expedience in the short term.

In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in the matter would do them, or cause them to be done, if left to themselves.

Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.

We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.

For at least the past 65 years, liberalism has been nothing if not an attempt to strike a balance between the needs of the community and the needs of individuals, between the need for freedom and the need for order.

It was a community like any other, bound by ties deeper than most, and people here went to their deaths as people did anywhere: with great reluctance, dragging the messy jumble of their lives behind them.