Our silence in the face of the horrific abuses that are taking place on a daily basis in fact are causing people throughout the Middle East to ask serious questions about America and about its commitment to its values.

The country is wasting its resources in trying to reach out to the Americans through their media. Such a strategy has turned out to be counter-productive.

I find some of the rhetoric being used against this deal shameful and irresponsible. There is bigotry coming out here.

What started this and drives this is bigotry.

They've made a terrible error in calculation and they've led my country into a war that we will need to extricate ourselves from at some point, ... Despite their efforts, there is a growing sense in the world that we need to find other ways of resolving these tensions.

He was a revolutionary fighter for justice, and he sought a radical transformation of America and the world,