Feisal Abdul Rauf Quotes
My life has been devoted to peacemaking.
Rauf, Feisal Abdul. Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America. Free Press, 2012.
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, 1869-1940, had:
This slogan was used by the Know-Nothing Party because they would rather continue to accept slavery than plunge the nation into a civil war.
Feisal Abdul Rauf (Arabic: فيصل عبد الرؤوف, born 1948) is an American Sufi imam, author, and activist whose stated goal is to improve relations between the Muslim world and the West. From 1983 to 2009, he served as Imam of Masjid al-Farah, a mosque in New York City. He has written three books on Islam and its place in contemporary Western society, including What's Right with Islam Is What's Right with America, and founded two non-profit organizations whose stated missions are to enhance the discourse on Islam in society.