Sam Harris Quotes About Islam

Quotes about: Islam

• The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn't, we will kill you.

  Sam Harris

  Community, Islam, Faces

  "Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 05, 2008.

• The same failure of liberalism is evident in Western Europe, where the dogma of multiculturalism has left a secular Europe very slow to address the looming problem of religious extremism among its immigrants. The people who speak most sensibly about the threat that Islam poses to Europe are actually fascists. To say that this does not bode well for liberalism is an understatement: It does not bode well for the future of civilization.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Europe, Civilization

  "The End Of Liberalism?" by Sam Harris, samharris.org. September 19, 2006.

• To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding ourselves with euphemisms. We're talking about Islam being a religion of peace that's been hijacked by extremists. If ever there were a religion that's not a religion of peace, it is Islam.

  Sam Harris

  Talking, Civilization, Islam

• There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.

  Sam Harris

  Differences, Islam, Doe

• Islam, at the moment, is the motherlode of bad ideas.

  Sam Harris

  Ideas, Islam, Moments

• The principal tenet of Jainism is non-harming. Observant Jains will literally not harm a fly. Fundamentalist Jainism and fundamentalist Islam do not have the same consequences, neither logically nor behaviorally.

  Sam Harris

  Islam, Harm, Jainism

  "Q&A with Sam Harris". Article on the official site samharris.org, 2005.

• There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to.

  Sam Harris

  Buddhism, Thinking, Trying

• The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.

  Sam Harris

  Character, Islam, Violence

  "Sam Harris on the Reality of Islam". www.truthdig.com. February 08, 2006.

• Take a moment to reflect upon the existence of the musical The Book of Mormon. Now imagine the security precautions that would be required to stage a similar production about Islam. The project is unimaginable—not only in Beirut, Baghdad, or Jerusalem, but in New York City.

  Sam Harris

  New York, Book, Cities

• It is time we admitted that we are not at war with “terrorism.” We are at war with Islam.

  Sam Harris

  War, Islam, Terrorism

  "‘Mired in a religious war’" by Sam Harris, www.washingtontimes.com. December 1, 2004.

• God is great"). Conversations about the practical impossibility of God's existence and the science-based irrationality of an afterlife slid seamlessly into xenophobia over Muslim immigration or the practice of veiling. The New Atheists became the new Islamophobes, their invectives against Muslims resembling the rowdy, uneducated ramblings of backwoods racists rather than appraisals based on intellect, rationality and reason. "Islam, more than any other religion human beings have devised, has all the makings of a thoroughgoing cult of death.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Xenophobia, Practice

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