I'm Not An Agent From Any Government,

Our Enemy Is Not Islam. Islam Is Not The Enemy Of America; Americans Are Not The Enemy Of Islam. Our Real Enemy Is Extremism And Radicalism.

In The 20th Century, The Muslim World Created A Vision Of Religious Nationalism. Turkey, For Example, Had To Be Ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, Other Minorities Didn't Have A Place In Such A Vision Of A Nation-state.

The Thing About The Islamic Situation Is We Don't Have A Church. We Don't Have An Ordained Priesthood, Which Makes It A Little Complicated. But We Do Have A Tradition Of Scholarship, And Rules Of Scholarship. It's Very Much Like Any Field Of Knowledge.

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.

Fanaticism And Terrorism Have No Place In Islam.