Islam Quotes - Page 38

• The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Reason, Accepted, Virgins

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.194, Tara Publishing

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• A perfect Muslim is he from whose tongue and hands mankind is safe.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hands, Perfect, Safe

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Islam appeals to people because it appeals also to reason.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People, Reason, Appeals

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Money and riches don't mean nothing to me. I don't care nothing about being no rich individual. I'm not living for glory or for fame; all this is doomed for destruction. You got it today, tomorrow it's gone. I got bigger things on my mind than that. I got Islam on my mind.

  Muhammad Ali

  Mean, Mind, Gone

  "Muhammad Ali: The Playboy Interviews". Book by Playboy, November 6, 2012.

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• I am not saying that I want to ban Islam. I want less Islam in Europe because it doesn't allow any room for debate.

  Geert Wilders

  Europe, Want, Rooms

  "Merkel Is Afraid". Interview with Walter Mayr and René Pfister, www.spiegel.de. November 9, 2010.

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• A key difference between Christianity and Islam is that Muslims believe that the Koran contains verbatim the word of God; it is written in the imperative. This precludes a comparison with Christianity.

  Geert Wilders

  Believe, Keys, Differences

  "Merkel Is Afraid". Interview with Walter Mayr and René Pfister, www.spiegel.de. November 9, 2010.

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• I think it's horrible that we Turks are always seen under the aspect of Islam first. I am constantly asked about religion, and almost always with a negative undercurrent that makes me furious.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Thinking, Negative, Firsts

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• East and West are coming together. Whether in peace or anarchy - they are coming together. There needn't be a clash between East and West, between Islam and Europe.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Europe, Together, East

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Islam, as a religion, has been established in France for a long time, and the religious question has been resolved in this country. Islam does not threaten France's future in any way.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Country, Religious, Long

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The dogmatic and, therefore, invulnerable core in Islam is understandably simple: acknowledgement of faith, prayer, charity and fasting. Almost everything else is open to interpretation and modification in space and time.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Prayer, Simple, Space

  "'They Live in a Bleak, Devastated Universe'". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. November 14, 2005.

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• Islam can only be modernized from within. If I state that I condemn the practice of stoning, that this punishment is despicable, it changes nothing. My fellow Muslims will say: Brother Tariq, you became a European, a Swiss citizen, so you are no longer one of us.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Brother, Practice, Punishment

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• I'm not criticizing how people experience what they might call spirituality. I am interested in looking critically at something else - at how people use their language to articulate theories about something they call religion, to say, for example, that "in Islam religion and politics necessarily go together," or to insist that "violence has no place in religion," to universalize it.

  Talal Asad

  People, Together, Example

  "Do Muslims Belong in the West? An Interview with Talal Asad". Interview with Hasan Azad, www.eutopiainstitute.org. February 13, 2015.

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• I think the approach to Islam as a tradition is helpful. Tradition helps us to focus on questions about authority and temporality, and about the language used in relation to the two.

  Talal Asad

  Thinking, Two, Focus

  "Do Muslims Belong in the West? An Interview with Talal Asad". Interview with Hasan Azad, www.jadaliyya.com. February 3, 2015.

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• Is Islam a religion of peace? I'm sure for some of the practitioners, but it's been hijacked by people who have an ideology that wants to destroy western civilization, and they're barbarians.

  Jeb Bush

  Civilization, People, Want

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• Without criticism of Islam, Islam will remain unassailed in its dogmatic, fanatical, medieval fortress; ossified, totalitarian and intolerant. It will continue to stifle thought, human rights, individuality, originality and truth.

  Wafa Sultan

  Rights, Individuality, Criticism

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• Western intellectual Islamologists have totally failed in their duties as intellectuals. They have betrayed their calling by abandoning their critical faculties when it comes to Islam.

  Wafa Sultan

  Intellectual, Calling, Betrayed

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• The MMI brothers, who provided security for Malcolm X had been trained by Malcolm himself that inside of the Nation of Islam, whenever there is a diversion, you protect the principal. The principal, in this case Malcolm, clearly was not protected on February 21st [1965].

  Manning Marable

  Brother, February, Cases

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• There was deep knowledge on the part of members of the Nation of Islam regarding the planning, in sight of the OAAU and the Muslim Mosque Incorporated regarding the events at the Audubon. They knew when they were going to be there, they knew what the schedules were.

  Manning Marable

  Sight, Events, Mosques

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• Elements within Malcolm's X own entourage, some of them were very angry with some of the changes that had occurred with Malcolm. One source of anger, curiously enough, was that - was the tension between MMI and OAAU, that the MMI, the Muslim Mosque Incorporated, these were women and men who had left the Nation of Islam out of loyalty to Malcolm, but then Malcolm continued to evolve rapidly.

  Manning Marable

  Loyalty, Men, Mosques

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• What is clear is that Malcolm X incorporated within the framework of black nationalism a pan-Africanist and internationalist perspective. In doing so, he began to reassess radically earlier positions sexism and patriarchy. He began to break with notions of sexism that he had long held as a member of the Nation of Islam, and began to advance and push forward women leadership in the OAAU.

  Manning Marable

  Perspective, Long, Black

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• The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us the religion of Islam, which is a religion of peace.

  Malcolm X

  Religion Of Islam, Muhammad, Honorable

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• That was unfortunate. I should have compared religion with religion and compared Islam not with Trinity College but with Jews, because the number of Jews who have won Nobel Prizes is phenomenally high.

  Richard Dawkins

  College, Should Have, Numbers

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• Race does not come into it. It is pure religion and culture. Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam. That would have been a fair comparison.

  Richard Dawkins

  Race, Intellectual, Culture

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• The radical Islamic terrorists and their intent to destroy any other religious structure than their radical, wrong-headed view of Islam is one of the great, if not the greatest, challenge we've had in 70 years in America.

  Rick Perry

  Religious, Islamic, Views

  Source: stream.org

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• After the Moslem Africans lost control over Spain, they began to prey on the Africans further to the south. They destroyed the great independent states in West Africa, and subsequently set Africa up for the Western slave trade and the Arabs were in the slave trade before Islam and they are still in the slave trade.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Independent, Spain, West

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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