Very wise sounding for someone that is the product of Islamic education.
He seems to understand a principle concerning belief. You cannot force anyone to believe anything. You can only prescribe or proscribe behavior, and not that easily. Oh yes, at the point of the sword you can make someone “say” they believe (or don’t) something, but you can’t change what they really believe inwardly.
Beliefs (any beliefs) are personal and cannot be coherced.
Now what I’m about to write is NOT a slam on Roman Catholics.....When Constantine turned Christian, eventually “Christianity” was made the state religion of Rome. This filled the “churches” with many, many people that didn’t trully believe...they just wanted to get along or advance. It was the worst thing that ever happened in Christian history. It laid the ground work for the horrors done in the name of Christ in later years.
When Constantine decided to use Christianity for the unity of the state, he told the Christians to get their act together and decide exactly what Christianity actually was. Thus we had the Council of Nicea and one set of theological interpretation decided on and all others declared as heracies. Oh, how many millions of disenting Christians have been murdered because of Constantine’s decision? Thankfully we have the First Amendment.