Conscious of his unrivaled stature with Muslims and cognizant of the non-Muslim eyes that followed him, Khabib stated, "Non-Muslims don't read the Quran, they don't read the Hadith [the collected record of the Prophet Mohammed's deeds], they read you. So be a good ambassador of Islam."

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 1094