Islam Quotes - Page 36

• My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns. If you want to understand Muslims, I argued, you need to understand the role of Islam in their lives. Now that seems obvious.

  Daniel Pipes

  Careers, Two, Political

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

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• Jihad expands Islam's domain by any means available.

  Ralph Peters

  Mean, Domain, Jihad

  "When Rights Make Wrongs" by Ralph Peters, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 18, 2010.

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• The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history, part of the fundamental, mainstream ideals of Islam.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Vision, Heritage, Fundamentals

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• There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by the first African-American president that we have. Obama's father was a Muslim and people have used this to arouse hostility against him.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Country, Father, Working Very Hard

  "Q&A with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf". Religion News Service Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. August 29, 2012.

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• What's right with America and what's right with Islam have a lot in common. At their highest levels, both worldviews reflect an enlightened recognition that all of humankind shares a common Creator - that we are, indeed, brothers and sisters.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Brother, America, Levels

  "Imam Rauf: What's right with Islam" by Feisal Abdul Rauf, www.cnn.com. September 12, 2010.

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• The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Elements, Radical, Dangerous

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• Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam.

  Abdurrahman Wahid

  Two, Important, Firsts

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• Pakistanis can't trust. They've seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they're misguided by people in the name of Islam. They're told: 'Malala is not a Muslim, she's not in purdah, she's working for America.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Names, America, People

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• I think people are tired of religion and how it divides and damages people. You can name it whatever you want, Islam or Christianity, but if you have a system in which God is distant and angry all the time, and you're trying to please him through the right disciplines, it isn't going to work for everyone.

  William P. Young

  Tired, Thinking, Names

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• I mean, in general, the danger is from Oriental faiths and Islam.

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Mean, Danger

  "Vladimir Zhirinovsky on Religion in Russia". Interview with Hanuu Haukka. Translation by Alexei Salapatov, www.forerunner.com. May 1, 1996.

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• Our success in America will involve two circles: Black Nationalism and Islam–it will take BN [Black Nationalism] to make our people conscious of doing for self & then Islam will provide the spiritual guidance. BN [Black Nationalism] will link us to Africa and Islam will link us spiritually to Africa, Arabia & Asia.

  Malcolm X

  Spiritual, Self, Circles

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• I want to see young people who as committed to the cause of Jesus Christ as their young people are to the cause of Islam. I want to see them as radically laying down their lives for the Gospel as they are over in Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places, you know, because we have... excuse me, but we have the truth!

  Becky Fischer

  Jesus, Israel, People

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• So let's talk about Islam the way we talk about everything else.

  Charb

  Way

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• We have to go on until Islam is made as ho-hum as Catholicism.

  Charb

  Goes On, Made, Catholicism

  "The Slain Editor Of Charlie Hebdo's Last Cartoon Is Tragically Prescient" by Pierre Bienaimé, www.businessinsider.com. January 7, 2015.

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• Abdur Rab offers a comprehensive vision of Islam using the Quran as his sole religious textual source. He intentionally avoids the hadith literature, which he believes, and argues, has done much damage to the message of the Quran. His work provides many thought-provoking insights and should be a significant contribution to the 'Quran only' movement in modern Islam.

  Jeffrey Lang

  Religious, Believe, Thought Provoking

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• Of all religious systems, Islam alone declares that individual perfection is possible in our earthly existence.

  Muhammad Asad

  Religious, Perfection, Individual

  Muhammad Asad (1993). “Islam at the Crossroads”, p.9, The Other Press

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• The Occident has never found it easy to grasp the strange netherworld of spirits that followers of Islam universally believe exist in a realm overlaid our own.

  Tahir Shah

  Believe, Followers, Strange

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• At a moment when distortions of Islam are what feed most Americans, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin has done something both practical and inspiring. He persuades us that the imperiled environment is both common struggle and common ground for people who share, it turns out, more than simply God.

  John Hockenberry

  Struggle, People, Done

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• Death comes to everyone. We must stand proud as Afghans in the defense of Islam.

  Mohammed Omar

  Scary, Defense, Proud

  "Taliban vows vengeance". www.wired.com. September 14, 2001.

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• There are very good Christians who are compassionate and caring. And there are very bad Christians. You can say that about Islam, about Hinduism, about any faith. That is why I was saying that it was not the faith per se but the adherent. People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.

  Desmond Tutu

  Christian, Caring, People

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• We can't keep thinking of gay people as being ostracised; we can't keep thinking of Muslim people as being [ostracised] because of the fundamentalism that occurs in Islam. Muslim people have to do something about speaking up about it. We can't judge a book by its cover.

  Elton John

  Book, Gay, Thinking

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2006.

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• The next decade cannot be a decade of confrontation and contention. It cannot be east vs. West. It cannot be men vs. women. It cannot be Islam vs. Christianity. That is what the enemies of dialogue want.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Men, Unity, Enemy

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• Orthodox Judaism is a thicket of detailed injunctions, Biblical commandments elaborated during centuries of prohibited proselytizing, functioning to limit interaction with outsiders. At the opposite extreme, Islam, still the most rapidly expanding of faiths, demands little immediate knowledge from those who would convert. The convert is permitted to enter and then to learn by participation, although there are plenty of detailed regulations and abstruse theological ideas to be pursued later, and the regulations do effectively separate believers from nonbelievers.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Biblical, Opposites, Ideas

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• Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Hands, Greek, Apathy

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• If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia can't drive, he'll say, 'Because Islam demands it.' But that's absurd, because - first of all - Islam demands no such thing; and secondly, the only country in the world in which women can't drive is Saudi Arabia. The inability to understand the difference between a cultural practice and religious belief is shocking among self-described intellectuals.

  Reza Aslan

  Leadership, Wisdom, Country

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