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I became, suddenly, not just a Muslim in faith. I became a Muslim in politics. Somebody whose politics were pre-defined by one interpretation of Islam.

My faith and my identity as a Muslim - I never saw it as something that made my job harder. It's just an aspect of who I am.

My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim.

I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those are an important part of my childhood and my identity.

I really didn't grow up religious, and I didn't grow up acknowledging my Muslim identity. For me, I was a British Pakistani.

I want to have a president in the U.S. who tries to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world.

It took me a long time to square with the fact that none of my experiences are typical - I'm not a typical American, but I'm also not a typical Muslim.

People see me as Andre first. Then they see me as someone who happens to be a Muslim.

I ran for Congress, just once.

My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns. If you want to understand Muslims, I argued, you need to understand the role of Islam in their lives. Now that seems obvious.