I Am An American Citizen Born In

The Islamic Method Of Waging War Is Not To Kill Innocent Civilians, But It Was Christians In World War Ii Who Bombed Civilians In Dresden And Hiroshima, Neither Of Which Were Military Targets.

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.

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.

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.

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.