Islam Quotes - Page 30

• The real Da'wah to Islam is the character of a Muslim.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Real, Character

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• There was a time when only specialized Christian missionaries needed to be able to defend the gospel of Jesus Christ against the attacks of Islam. Today every Christian has an opportunity and obligation to present the gospel effectively and in Christian love to the Muslims who have permeated our Western society. When your neighbor, your mechanic, your favorite basketball player, your employer or employee, or even your children's friends could very well be Muslims, the need for proper understanding and an effective Christian witness is abundantly clear.

  Josh McDowell

  Basketball, Christian, Jesus

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• Christ remains the most influential figure in history. Any list of world-transforming individuals would no doubt include Moses, Buddha, and Muhammad. Moses, Buddha, and Muhammad, however occupy totally different places in Judaism, Buddhism, and Islam than Christ occupies in Christianity. Moses, Buddha, and Muhammad never professed to perform miracles; indeed they never claimed to be anything more than men. They viewed themselves simply as God's messengers. Christ is the only person in history who has defined a whole religion around his person.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Jesus, Buddhism, Men

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• Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America...

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Country, America, Christianity

  "Scarborough Country" with Joe Scarborough, www.nbcnews.com. September 15, 2006.

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• Islam is about finding your own space.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Space, Findings

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• Islam has some of the best defenses against other god viruses and has the potential to be more parasitically aggressive when consolidating political power with a society.

  Darrel Ray

  Political, Religion, Defense

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• There are many interpretations of Islam within the wider Islamic community, but generally we are instructed to leave the world a better place than it was when we came into it.

  Aga Khan IV

  Islamic, Community, World

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• We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam.

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Christian, Work, Gdp

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• I've been to Africa three times. All right? You can't bring Western reasoning into the culture. The same way you can't bring it into fundamental Islam.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Gdp, Three, Culture

  "Bill O’Reilly’s Sexism Got Him Booted, But His Racism Got Him Paid. Why?" by Earl Ofari Hutchinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2017.

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• In Islam, all living things have souls. We are made pure by the fire of the lord compassion.

  John Speed

  Compassion, Fire, Soul

  John Speed (2007). “The Temple Dancer: A Novel of India”, p.38, Macmillan

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• It is difficult to generalize about Islam. To begin with, the word itself is commonly used with two related but distinct meanings, as the equivalents both of Christianity, and Christendom. In the one sense, it denotes a religion, as system of beliefs and worship; in the other, the civilization that grew up and flourished under the aegis of that religion. The word Islam thus denotes more than fourteen centuries of history, a billion and a third people, and a religious and cultural tradition of enormous diversity.

  Bernard Lewis

  Religious, Civilization, Two

  Bernard Lewis (2003). “The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror”, p.3, Modern Library

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• I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Buddhism, Hinduism

  Letter to Sheldon Vanauken on December 14, 1950. "Sleuthing C.S. Lewis: More Light in the Shadowlands". Book by Kathryn Ann Lindskoog, p. 393, 2001.

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• If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.

  Abdurrahman Wahid

  People, Territory, Belief

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• It is very clear from the historical record that without British help neither Wahhabism nor the House of Saud would be in existence today. Wahhabism is a British-inspired fundamentalist movement in Islam. Through its defense of the House of Saud, the US also supports Wahhabism directly and indirectly regardless of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Wahhabism is violent, right wing, ultra-conservative, rigid, extremist, reactionary, sexist, and intolerant.

  Andre Vltchek

  Wings, House, Support

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• Before the revolution I thought there are appropriate individuals who would do the job according to Islam, therefore I repeatedly said that clerics would go after their own job. Then I saw that most of them were inappropriate individuals and I found out that what I said was not true, so I came and clearly announced that I was wrong.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Jobs, Saws, Revolution

  "Imam's Sahife", Volume 18 (p. 241), December 11, 1983.

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• In Islam, democracy is included and people are free in Islam, both in expressing their opinions and their actions, until there is no conspiracy and they don't bring up ideas which would deviate Iranian generation.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Ideas, People, Democracy

  "Imam's Sahife", Volume 5 (p. 468), January 15, 1979.

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• There is no room for play in Islam... It is deadly serious about everything.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Play, Rooms, Serious

  "Man Of The Year: Portrait of an Ascetic Despot", content.time.com. January 7, 1980.

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• It's almost impossible to deal with a crazy man, except that he does have religious beliefs, and the world of Islam will be damaged if a fanatic like him should commit murder in the name of religion against 60 innocent people.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Religious, Crazy, Men

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• For a century, the Arabs tribes gave Islam the first of these victories. Then the rough mountain peoples of North Africa, the Berbers, helped it to conquer Spain and organize Fatimid Egypt.

  Fernand Braudel

  Egypt, Victory, Mountain

  Fernand Braudel (1995). “A History of Civilizations”, Penguin Group USA

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• I think that we all at some point are in search of something - a higher power, whatever you want to call it, the meaning of life. I know I was, especially at even my son's age in my 20s, and dabbling in Eastern philosophies and yoga and Buddhism and Christianity and Islam. I kind of touched them all, you know, just trying to figure out the meaning of life or if nothing else, figure myself out.

  Denzel Washington

  Philosophy, Yoga, Buddhism

  Source: collider.com

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• Internal differences within the Nation of Islam forced me out of it. I did not leave of my own free will. But now that it has happened, I intend to make the most of it. Now that I have more independence of action, I intend to use a more flexible approach toward working with others to get a solution to this problem.

  Malcolm X

  Differences, Independence, Use

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• The champions of militant Islam are, of course, misogynists, woman-haters; they are also misologists - haters of reason. Their armed doctrine is little more than a chaotic penal code underscored by impotent dreams of genocide. And, like all religions, it is a massive agglutination of stock response, of cliches, of inherited and unexamined formulations.

  Martin Amis

  Dream, Champion, Doctrine

  "The voice of the lonely crowd" by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2002.

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• September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational. And such old, old stuff. The conflicts we now face or fear involve opposed geographical arenas, but also opposed centuries or even millennia. It is a landscape of ferocious anachronisms: nuclear jihad in the Indian subcontinent; the medieval agonism of Islam; the Bronze Age blunderings of the Middle East.

  Martin Amis

  Night, September 11, Age

  "The voice of the lonely crowd" by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2002.

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• Along with Islam and Christianity, Judaism does insist that some turgid and contradictory and sometimes evil and mad texts, obviously written by fairly unexceptional humans, are in fact the word of god. I think that the indispensable condition of any intellectual liberty is the realisation that there is no such thing.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Evil, Mad

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.59, Basic Books

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• In Islam there is a line between let's say freedom and the line which is then transgressed into immorality and irresponsibility and I think as far as this writer is concerned, unfortunately, he has been irresponsible with his freedom of speech. Salman Rushdie or indeed any writer who abuses the prophet, or indeed any prophet, under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death. It's got to be seen as a deterrent, so that other people should not commit the same mistake again.

  Cat Stevens

  Mistake, Islamic, Thinking

  "Yussuf Islam, Formerly Cat Stevens, Expresses Support For Rushdie Death Sentence". The Christian Science Monitor, 1989.

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