Fadil converted to Islam in 1977.

And there, for the first time, I encountered the other religious traditions

Christianity and Islam are two different religions.

He was converted from Buddhism to Christianity.

The Prophet of Islam, Muhammad, brought one and only one religion. Yet today we have perhaps a thousand religions that all claim to be Islam.

Pashtuns want education for their daughters and sons.

I think that's there in all cultures, right?

Instead, what we got was Martin Luther's 95 Theses, the Protestant Reformation, and, you know, the Thirty Years' War.

On April 26, 2010,

It's interesting. If I asked you to name the great religions of the world, what would you say?

Hamas. You have a problem with Muslims, Mr. Palmer?

So in the 20th century, you had this vicious cycle in the Arab world where you have a dictatorship suppressing its own people including the Islamic pious, and they're reacting in reactionary ways.

I prefer to believe that we are engaged in a fundamental reformation, a reformation like the religious Reformation of the 16th century.

It is remarkable that some of the most critical concepts of Muslim religious terminology have now become part of the international language of current affairs. Questions drawn from Islamic theology are discussed freely by the world public, engaging specialists and non specialists, Muslims and non Muslims.

Throughout Europe, the Muslim communities are holding events and discussions, are discussing the centrality of compassion in Islam and in all faiths.

But I kept watching the news in case they came back, they were like, Before he did it, he converted to Islam.

But still, if you're going to speak about a Muslim culture, this has a core, the divine message, which began the religion, but then many traditions, perceptions, many practices were added on top of it.

So, this woman, who converted from the Church of England to Catholicism when she married my father and there's no one more rabid than a Catholic convert decided to teach in the rural areas in Nigeria, particularly among Igbo women, the Billings ovulation method, which was the only approved birth control by the Catholic Church.

'the year of our lord'

In prison, he converted to Islam.

And a Muslim.

Muslim prayer beads.

So realizing the truth gave me a position to choose should I continue to hate, or let it go?

You can't not know who you are, so you cling to hard matter identity.

I am a Muslim.

When I went to the training camp I say,

I believe in the Muslim way.

Education. The kids never went to school.

Which God? Which Religion?

Are you religious, John?

Religious, yes.

And I was actually a potent force in spreading ideas across borders, and I witnessed the rise of Islamist extremism as distinct from Islam the faith, and the way in which it influenced my co religionists across the world.

In my country,

Islam s Forsaken Renaissance

Pakistan is a Muslim country.

It means surrender of self interest to the will of Allah.

Christian,

Corporal Bakr was a Muslim. You're a Muslim.

You go to Wikipedia and the first map you find is this.

Nothing to kill or die for

Not so if you're adopting a religious mindset.

This is the pure religion.

Where do we get these models? We get them from others.

Maybe we'll put a cross over there to signify that, when we wanna be non religious, we say 'common era' 'before the common era' when we wanna be religious, we say A.D. which means 'the year of our lord'.

I'm going to talk about the power of a word jihad.