"What we read in our books [of heritage] is dangerous. It makes us believe that we are the best and noblest of all people, that our way of life is the cleanest, that we are all purity while the others are nothing but filth, and so we must not eat their food or wear their clothes.

So if we eat is the best, what we wear is the best, the way we live is the best, our way of thought is the best, and still it brought us to this wretched situation, we must reexamine it all."

Interviewer: "Do you doubt that we are the best?"

Ahmad Sarraf: "We are the best only in bad things."

"We are like sick people who call it a doctor, and say to the doctor: Come lie in the bed next to me, stick the pipes up your nose, and become sick just like me. Why? Why can't I join the doctor, instead of dragging him down to my illness?

All these attempts to drag the world and force it to join Islam – as if we are living in heaven on Earth… We must take it one step at a time, but if we force the world to join Islam against its will, to pay the jizya poll tax in humiliation or face the sword and have its head chopped off – what will become of this world?"