Fadil converted to Islam in 1977.

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

He was converted from Buddhism to Christianity.

Christianity and Islam are two different religions.

Pashtuns want education for their daughters and sons.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Education. The kids never went to school.

On April 26, 2010,

Muslims bury their dead in graves.

In prison, he converted to Islam.

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

And a Muslim.

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

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

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.

I am a Muslim.

And there are two important messages, or two lessons, to take from that reality.

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

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.

Seclusion of women was actually a Byzantine and Persian practice, and Muslims adopted that and made that a part of their religion.

Not so if you're adopting a religious mindset.

That's the Indian story.

Pakistan is a Muslim country.

He is a recent convert to Catholicism.

The solution to the problem in the Middle East, according to him, is to convert you all to Christianity just get rid of your religion.

Islam s Forsaken Renaissance

Remember what the rabbis and what Augustine said about how Scripture should be governed by the principle of charity.

'the year of our lord'

The pentacle is a pagan religious icon.

So, what would we look for?

And this man, Terry Jones

For example, in Saudi Arabia there is a phenomenon called the religious police.

Muslim prayer beads.

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

They said that we want freedom we want democracy.

And from literate populations, new forms of collective action emerged in the spheres of knowledge, religion and politics.

More a faith.