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America is an unusually religious nation.

I feel like one of the things that is central to American life is the religious experience, and I think that the experience of being Muslim in America is as valid and as important a perspective on the religious experience of America as evangelical Christianity or Judaism - whatever it may be.

The British, I have discovered, assume that Americans are more religious than they are.

Most people I know are not hard-core religious people. They are what I would call 'lightly religious.' So I don't buy the notion that we can't laugh about religion in America.

Americans deserve to have their religious beliefs and practices protected. Religious freedom is too important to be trampled by insensitive bureaucracy or bad policy.

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.

It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with.

Notoriously, the United States is the most religious of the Western advanced nations. It's a bit mysterious why that is.

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.