Islam, he told me, was his inspiration.

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When I left Islam, my mother, who's eighty-eight now, I called her a few years ago and I told her yes, she asked me, did you leave Islam?

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How to reconcile this with some of the traditional values and norms of Islam, that's not for me to dictate, but certainly I think it's something that can be accomplished, and I want to encourage that.

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This time, Ed, I have brilliant, brilliant men and women surrounding me, not just persons from the Nation of Islam or nationalists, but those who are highly learned, highly skilled, highly trained visionaries.

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"Islam is about the subjective engagement, " Abou El Fadl told me, neatly encapsulating how his theological vision differs from the strident absolutism of Wahhabism.

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