We Are Not Going To

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.

I Am An American Citizen Born In Kuwait Of Egyptian Parents. I Grew Up In Great Britain, Malaysia, And Egypt And Have Lived In The United States Since 1965, When I Was Seventeen.

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.

Koran Says Whoever Believes In God In The Last Day Shall Be Saved. It Is A Religion Whose Very Name, Islam, Comes From The Word Shalom, Which Means Peace. It's About Establishing Peace. We Greet Each Other With Peace Be Upon You, Which The Jews Do In Greeting Each Other.

God Says In The Quran That There Is Only One True Religion, God's Religion. It's The Same Theme That God Revealed To All Of The Prophets, Even Before Muhammad.