We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.

You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.

Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It's about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other.

God says in the Quran that there is only one true religion, God's religion. It's the same theme that God revealed to all of the prophets, even before Muhammad.

The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.

There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.