I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.

Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?

One person's religion is another person's cult.

Beside all this I think there was something personal being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following yet it's so little known about it which surprised me.

I've found a more personal pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.

I'm very interested in religion as something to study but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.

Personally I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know my higher self. The Creator.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

You know I think that President Obama is a person who has a great relationship with a number of people. Colin Powell does too. I think Colin Powell is a fine American a great leader and sees things in President Obama that he agrees with. He's entitled to have his opinion.

In the past I would self destruct when it came to love - I was immature throwing myself into things but now times have changed I want a relationship where you understand the other person.

My relationship with 'Pollyanna' is a very personal one because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

I have a much wider freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own personally. You know let it be theirs - a personal relationship with their soul or their God or with their church.

I'm a hopeless romantic and very much the person in a relationship to go: If things are going well I'll buy the flowers remember the dates of things plan fun nights out.

A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture you get into a relationship.

Then of course there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown and one has to let them go because they're just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors.

If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God then that's enough for me.

I personally don't believe people really grow. They just learn stuff when they were a kid and hold on to it and that affects every relationship they have.