Dawud Walid Quotes

What I saw were not only anti-Islamic sentiment, but anti-minority sentiment. We are hopeful that there are no types of retaliatory actions taken against the mosque. One positive is that there are people in the academic and religious communities in Warren that spoke out in favor of the mosque. - Dawud Walid

We say that the new year is a revered moment, a sacred time in Islam. People normally do not take off work or school, but at night there usually are programs in the mosques that many people attend. After prayers, the imams will talk about the significance of this month for all Muslims. - Dawud Walid

We feel that by actually making the effort, not just talking about it here, but also going to Iraq and getting that information to the Iraqi news outlets and conveying it in the Arabic language will be a more effective. - Dawud Walid

We cannot break the law with the purpose of establishing law and order in our society. - Dawud Walid

We believe that through discussion and respectful dialogue, this will turn people who have bad feelings about others into possible friends. People are the enemies of that which they do not know. - Dawud Walid

We are disturbed by the vandalism of the mosque and the high frequency of attacks that have taken place in a very short time span. - Dawud Walid

This kind of violence is contrary to the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad. These cartoons should never have been printed, but the Prophet Muhammad said that we should not reciprocate by returning evil for evil. We are to reply to evil only with good. - Dawud Walid

These are great and evil events, along with the Holocaust, which are offensive to all of humanity. - Dawud Walid

The university needs to take appropriate disciplinary action in this case to demonstrate through its actions that anti-Muslim bigotry will not be tolerated on campus. - Dawud Walid

The tactics that the abductors are using -- showing her with a veil on, crying, asking for the release of the Iraqi prisoners -- is an unacceptable tactic. Even if the abductors believe the Iraqi women are being imprisoned unjustly, Islam does not condone two wrongs making a right. - Dawud Walid

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