Islam Quotes - Page 35

• They used Akbar's principles to formulate a version of Islam that could peacefully co-exist with other religions (or so they claimed). An Emperor's Bequest to Islam, their joint 1,300-page doorstopper, spent twenty weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in hardcover alone. The fact that they remained practicing Muslims (albeit the liberal, wine-guzzling kind) put their message in high international demand.

  Manil Suri

  New York, Wine, Twenties

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• What is most necessary for people and what is given us in great abundance, are experiences, especially experiences of the forces within us. This is our most essential food, our most essential wealth. If we consciously receive all this abundance, the universe will pour into us what is called life in Judaism, spirit in Christianity, light in Islam, power in Taoism.

  Jacob Needleman

  Light, People, Taoism

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• There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile. God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back... No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.

  Timothy Keller

  Hurt, Real, Believe

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• Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.

  Martin Amis

  Christianity, Medieval, Individual

  "The age of horrorism (part three)" by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2006.

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• The fundamental difference between Islamic government, on the one hand, and constitutional monarchy and republics, on the other, is this: whereas the representatives of the people or the monarch in such regimes engage in legislation, in Islam the legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to God Almighty.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Islamic, Differences, Government

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• The difference must be distinguished between worship and respect. Islam orders you to obey and respect, as long as you are not worshiping anything other than God... Islam is a religion of peace. You don't attack. You explain.

  Hakeem Olajuwon

  Order, Differences, Long

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• Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.

  Mary Douglas

  Egalitarianism, Principles, Problem

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• I really want to bring the message of love that is Islam to people; bring something new to that familiar face.

  Youssou N'Dour

  People, Want, Faces

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• Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.

  Youssou N'Dour

  Used, Certain, Ideology

  "A song and a prayer" by Mark Hudson, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

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• Islam is a peaceful religion.

  Youssou N'Dour

  Peaceful

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• We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Ideas, Democracy, Needs

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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• The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.

  John Cornyn

  Enemy, World, Perversion

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• After America won the Cold War, some believed we had come to the 'end of history,' and budget-cutters celebrated the so-called 'peace dividend.' As a result, we ignored the toxic mixture of militant Islam and terror that ultimately led to 9/11.

  Frank Gaffney

  War, America, Mixtures

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• My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Rights, Government, Names

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. September 1, 2004.

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• Islam is a dangerous religion.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Dangerous

  "Muslim anger denies prize to sex trade novel" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2001.

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• The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West.

  John Keegan

  Years, West, Revival

  "Foreign Correspondent" with Jennifer Byrne, (ABC, Australia), October 10, 2001.

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• Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over economy, which was very much patterned after the Soviet Union. All of these things did not come out of Islam. Islam is not that developed.

  Azar Nafisi

  Struggle, Colonialism, Looks

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• This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?

  Azar Nafisi

  Girl, Religious, Islamic

  "Iran’s Women: Canaries in the Coal Mine" by Azar Nafisi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2010.

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• The terrorists whatever slogans they use have nothing in common with Islam.

  Nursultan Nazarbayev

  Use, Common, Terrorist

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• It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Atheist, Labels, Unfair

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• I mean there is an assumption made that Islam is about submission, and I think that the submission that we have is to God.

  Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar

  God, Mean, Thinking

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• Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God's creation.

  Aga Khan IV

  God, Purpose, Creation

  "Islam Is a Faith of Reason". Interview with Stefan Aust and Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. October 12, 2006.

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• Again and again, when Westerners are perceived as denigrating Muhammad, the Koran, or Islam, Islamists demonstrate, riot or kill.

  Daniel Pipes

  Muhammad, Riot, Again And Again

  "A Muhammad cartoon a day" by Daniel Pipes, www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2012.

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• I draw a distinction between traditional Islam and Islamism. Islamism emerged in its modern form in the 1920s and is driven by a belief that Muslims can be strong and rich again if they follow the Islamic law severely and in its entirety. This is a response to the trauma of modern Islam.

  Daniel Pipes

  Strong, Islamic, Law

  "Islam and Islamism in the Modern World". Interview with Tom Bethell, spectator.org. February 8, 2013.

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• In the long term, the United States could greatly benefit Islam by uniquely freeing the religion from government constraints and permitting it to evolve in a positive, modern direction. But that's the long term.

  Daniel Pipes

  Government, Long, United States

  "Islam and Islamism in the Modern World". Interview with Tom Bethell, spectator.org. February 8, 2013.

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