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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.

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.

I Worked As A Teacher In The Public School System In New York City For Several Years, And I Was A Victim Of The Layoffs, You Know, In The Mid-'70s. And Then I Worked As A Sales Engineer For A Company In New Jersey That Was Selling Industrial Filtration Equipment.

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.

I Read, Read Enormously On All Different Fields Of Islamic Thought, From Philosophy To Islamic Literature, Poetry, Exegeses, Knowledge Of The Hadith, The Teachings Of The Prophet. That's How I Trained Myself. And Then I Was Appointed Imam By A Sufi Master From Istanbul, Turkey.