Islam Quotes - Page 7

• [Americans know] the traditional values of Islam, devotion to faith and good works, to family and society, are in harmony with the best of American ideals.

  William J. Clinton

  Harmony, Devotion, Good Work

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• I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Trying, Way To Live

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.

  Karen Armstrong

  Christian, War, Fighting

  "Prejudices about Islam will be shaken by this show" by Karen Armstrong, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2012.

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• Regardless of what I think about Islam or Wicca or any other religion, the fact is that it's a group of people. Every faith has its ceremonies. And since it's made up of people, every faith also has its assholes.

  Jim Butcher

  Thinking, People, Facts

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1323, Penguin

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• It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet.

  Hassan al-Banna

  Law, Planets, Nations

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• I found it really disturbing to see a novelist writing a diatribe about Islam and Muslim radical extremists, blurring the distinction between the two.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Writing, Two, Novelists

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed

  Barack Obama

  Muslim Faith, Mind Blowing, Three

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• From Obama's book, "The Audacity of Hope:" "I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers equivalent rights on such basic matters as hospital visitation or health insurance coverage simply because the people they love are of the same sex - nor am I willing to accept a reading of the Bible that considers an obscure line in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount."

  Barack Obama

  Sex, Book, Reading

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• What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don't think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism is

  Brad Thor

  Writing, Thinking, Criticism

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• Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of war, and most Muslims don't understand the true nature of Islam.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  War, True Nature

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• Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity.

  Jermaine Jackson

  Answers, Christianity, Born Again

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• When anyone studies a little or pays a little attention to the rules of Islamic government, Islamic politics, Islamic society and Islamic economy he will realize that Islam is a very political religion. Anyone who will say that religion is separate from politics is a fool; he does not know Islam or politics.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Islamic, Government, Political

  "Tahrir al-Wasilah (Volume 1)". Book by Ruhollah Khomeini, 1986.

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• For nearly two hundred years, our nation has derived its strength from the diversity of its people and of their beliefs. That strength has been greatly enhanced by [the Islamic] religious heritage.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Religious, Islamic, Years

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1975). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Country, Ideas, People

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• [Islam] inspires countless individuals to lead lives of honesty, integrity, and morality.

  George W. Bush

  Honesty, Integrity, Inspire

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• Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries.

  Tom Tancredo

  Century, Radical, Foe

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• Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

  Karen Armstrong

  Fundamentalist Religion, Wiping Out, Movement

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• Whether you're the wedding cake baker or the gay couple or the Baptist preacher, radical Islam would kill you all if they could.

  Lindsey Graham

  Couple, Gay, Cake

  Lindsey Graham at GOP primary debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, www.cbsnews.com. September 16, 2015.

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• No, I don't think it's fair to label Islam 'violent.' But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Labels, Gone

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• Today (1950), the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen have not yet taken it into account, there is still grave danger that the temporal power of Islam may return and, with it, the menace that it may shake off a West which has ceased to be Christian, and affirm itself as a great anti-Christian world Power.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Christian, Country, Taken

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• ...what will be the outcome of this kind of thing? Holton predicts that "at best, the result could be Muslim enclaves in Western communities in which sharia supercedes native law." Or "at worst, sharia could start to creep into our lives and laws, changing our way of life little by little over time." That would be entirely in line with the stealth jihad goal of Islamizing American society.

  Robert Spencer

  Law, Goal, Community

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• During the first formative centuries of its existence, Christianity was separated from and indeed antagonistic to the state, with which it only later became involved. From the lifetime of its founder, Islam was the state, and the identity of religion and government is indelibly stamped on the memories and awareness of the faithful from their own sacred writings, history, and experience.

  Bernard Lewis

  Memories, Writing, Government

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• So many Muslims have this belief that everything between the two covers of the Koran is just God's unaltered word. They like to quote the textual work that shows the Bible has a history and did not fall straight out of the sky, but until now the Koran has been out of this discussion. The only way to break through this wall is to prove that the Koran has a history too. The Sana'a fragments will help us do that.

  Gerd R. Puin

  Wall, Fall, Break Through

  "What Is the Koran?" by Toby Lester, www.theatlantic.com. January 1999.

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• Islam does not mean peace. It means submission. The word "peace" for Muslims has a different meaning. Peace, according to Muslims, will be achieved when everyone submits to Islam. Muslims can't offer peace. They can offer truce. In their minds, peace will be achieved only when you are subdued and they are the masters. Any other arrangement is not Islamic.

  Ali Sina

  Islamic, Mean, Mind

  Source: myislam.dk

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• I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capability to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age... I have studied him - the wonderful man, and in my opinion far from being an Anti-Christ he must be called the Saviour of Humanity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Islamic, Men, Humanity

  Interview (April 1935), as quoted in "The Genuine Islam", Vol. 1, January 1936.

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