The Salafists, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Al Qaeda in Iraq are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria.
The Muslim Brotherhood is much more hardline than Turkish Islamists.
The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community.
'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.
In Islam, the word of the Prophet is final. No true Muslim can disown these verses or say that they would rewrite the offensive verses of the Koran. If they do, then they would have to run for their lives.
I'm a woman of colour. I am the daughter of immigrants. I am a Muslim. I am a feminist. I am a lefty liberal.
Every Muslim leader must unequivocally proclaim that terror committed in the name of Islam violates the core tenets of the Prophet Mohammed, and they must do so repeatedly. Period.
I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim.
I was raised orthodox Muslim. Very sheltered, very conservative.
It's patently impossible for a Muslim character to represent 'all Muslims.'
I am a believing and practising Muslim - but I am also a social democrat.
Saddam Hussein was not an Islamist. He's not a radical jihadist. He's not a radical Muslim. I mean, he was a - he was a Baathist. He was a secular - even though he professed to be a good and devout Muslim.
The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
To be slapped with a shoe is a dirty insult in the Muslim world.
Syria's population is 74% Sunni Muslim.
Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.
It does our Muslim compatriots no favors to fuel suspicions and leave things unspoken.
I'm not just a token Muslim.
The goal of isolating extremists and making them unwelcome in Muslim communities has been abandoned.