We have the order to open fire if the situation requires.

You must understand how shameful it is for us that a Muslim would become a Christian. If other people want to join Islam, we encourage and appreciate them. But ours is the complete and final religion. If you leave it, that is like throwing God away.

It's somewhere in the order of 150 to 180 acres, ... It's a long skinny fire. It's runs the length from Fairhope to Bedford

The evacuation order has been lifted now that firefighters have gotten the fire to 65 percent containment.

Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.

Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that leads some to view the world as but a stage on which to play out the great historical drama: the United States of America versus the Powers of Evil.