Islam Quotes - Page 16

• Doctrines like Christianity or Islam or Marxism require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions.

  Edward Abbey

  Atheist, Doubt, Doctrine

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.11, RosettaBooks

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• It is important that the Muslim leaders, scholars, and intellectuals are much more vocal and explain what Islam is.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Leader, Important, Scholar

  "'You want my reaction? You get my silence.'". Interview with Lars Mensel and Clemens Lukitsch, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. November 19, 2012.

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• It's not religious war, but Al-Qaeda always use religions, Islam - actually, as a pretext and as a cover and as a mantle for their war and for their terrorism and for their killing and beheading and so on.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Religious, War, Use

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.

  Imran Khan

  Thinking, Play, People

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• Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Miracle, Christianity, Judaism

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• Politics can be a factor neither in shaping Islam nor directing Muslims' acts and attitudes in Islam's name.

  Fethullah Gulen

  Attitude, Names, Factors

  "Meet Fethullah Gülen, the World’s Top Public Intellectual". Foreign Policy Interview, foreignpolicy.com. August 4, 2008.

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• We need to revisit how the Prophet dealt with water, animals, in how he talked about slaughtering, caring for plants and so forth. Respect towards nature is a part of Islam. This is essential but Muslims are not aware. The whole world is talking about global warming and respecting nature but Muslims are not doing enough of that.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Caring, Animal, Talking

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• There is no reason to not trust your process, no reason to get frustrated, no reason to criticize, or judge others, nothing wrong with getting old, or not being able to get pregnant, or being handicapped, or being short or tall or gay, or injured, or divorced or married to an idiot, or with Christianity or Judaism or Islam, or indigenous beliefs, or pollution, crime, war, Bush, etc. When this understanding grows, we realize where we're at now is just as perfect as wherever we could possibly get to.

  Bryan Kest

  War, Gay, Perfect

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• I do not believe it is right to identify Islam with violence. This is not right or true.

  Pope Francis

  Believe, Violence

  Pope Francis’ In-Flight Press Conference from Poland, www.catholicnewsagency.com. July 31, 2016.

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• I have travelled a great deal - to Afghanistan, Iran, Egypt - and can very well differentiate between moderate Muslims and Islam.

  Geert Wilders

  Egypt, Iran, Afghanistan

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Actually we are Muslims because we believe in the religion of Islam.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Religion Of Islam

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• The religion of Islam actually restores one's human feelings, human rights, human incentives, human, his talent.

  Malcolm X

  Rights, Religion Of Islam, Feelings

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Philosophy, Greek, World

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• There is a coalition of anti-Semitism today, the extreme left, the extreme right and in the middle the huge corpus of Islam. I'm worried, I go around with a very heavy heart.

  Elie Wiesel

  Heart, Today, Worried

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• The reason Ataturk, Kemal Ataturk was and is so highly reputed, is he was attempting to modernize… That’s not the right word. Well, it is. For lack of a better way of saying it, he was trying to make Islam compatible with the modern twentieth century world.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Trying, Ataturk, World

  "Scrambling Liberals Don’t Know Who to Blame for the Istanbul Airport Attack". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 29, 2016.

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• Many people have criticized Islam for being just automatic, having no individuality, just surrendering your will to God, but we Muslims know very well that every moment of the day we have to practice the fact that to surrender one's self to God is an act of free will.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Self, Practice, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.

  Prince Charles

  Thinking, Generosity, Imagination

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• Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Looks, Followers, World

  "'How Jimmy Carter and I Started the Mujahideen'". www.outlookindia.com. November 15, 2001.

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• I love working with younger people. I feel like we need to catch up with them. In South Asian art it's important to address the fact that the majority of what we see is Hindu, and based in Hinduism, and that it has a social and cultural history. Islam and Muslim culture are often now figured as these outside invaders who came into India, and this is in the service of a more right-wing nationalist discourse that is Islamophobic. And that's part of the worldwide Islamophobia moment that we're having right now.

  Chitra Ganesh

  Art, People, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The Syrian war was started and fueled by three countries in the region, namely Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey. They acted for the sake of political and economic dominance and in favor of Sunni Islam against the Alawite influence in the government of Syria.

  Burhan Sonmez

  Country, War, Political

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm gonna be a respectable dude. When people talking to me, I'm gonna show everybody respect. I just wanted to do that, I needed some kind of balance and I think that Islam was perfect for me. It ain't nothing different than Christianity, we all believe in Jesus, we all believe in God, it's just that Islam really helped me balance out who I am. Cuz if I can go all day without making Salaat or asking for forgiveness or giving thanks, you know, I would probably be a lunatic. So that's what gave me balance.

  The Jacka

  Thank You, Jesus, Believe

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There are people clamoring for the election of Donald Trump because they hate anyone whose skin is a slight shade different than theirs. They are calling for the eradication of Islam and want to build a wall along an arbitrary line that keeps Mexicans out of the land they probably have more of a right to cross than the people who now somehow think they have a right to be there.

  John Lurie

  Wall, Hate, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think there is a lot of continuity between the Jewish and the Islamic traditions. We know this historically, though people don't want to talk about that - especially Muslims. There is a common source for both Judaism and Islam, or let's say that Islam finds its source in Judaism. The commonalities of practice and sensibility, ethos and mythos, create a lot of overlap.

  Ayad Akhtar

  Islamic, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Sometimes people have said that Islam, in its own calendar, is still only in the Middle Ages.

  Salman Rushdie

  People, Age, Sometimes

  "Living Novelistically". Interview with Richard Wolinksy, www.guernicamag.com. October 15, 2012.

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• You are American, whether you profess Judaism, Catholicism, Protestantism, whether you adhere to Islam, or whether you believe in nothing at all. And you're as American as anybody else, whatever your religious beliefs. But try not to get caught up in media stereotypes of your neighbors and of your country. Think about people that you know and how they treat you. As you get to know someone, it matters not what religious background they have, or what their nationality is, or where they came from. And I think that's how Americans really do relate to each other on a personal level.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Religious, Believe

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