Islam Quotes - Page 8

• Islam is an ideology. It's not a race.

  Ibrahim Hooper

  Race, Ideology

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• Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The prohibition on picturing the prophet - who was only another male mammal - is apparently absolute. So is the prohibition on pork or alcohol or, in some Muslim societies, music or dancing. Very well then, let a good Muslim abstain rigorously from all these. But if he claims the right to make me abstain as well, he offers the clearest possible warning and proof of an aggressive intent.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Art, Dancing, Alcohol

  "Cartoon Debate: The case for mocking religion". www.slate.com. February 04, 2006.

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• If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Animal, Camels, May

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• The nation of Dubai banned the movie Charlie's Angles because it's "offensive to the religion of Islam." Apparently, the religion of Islam is offended by anything without a plot.

  Jon Stewart

  Movie, Dubai, Religion Of Islam

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• Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends His son to die for you.

  Cal Thomas

  Christian, Son, Dies

  "Justice Department Clarifies Ashcroft's View of Islam" by Ian McCaleb, www.foxnews.com. February 12, 2002.

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• God is great"). Conversations about the practical impossibility of God's existence and the science-based irrationality of an afterlife slid seamlessly into xenophobia over Muslim immigration or the practice of veiling. The New Atheists became the new Islamophobes, their invectives against Muslims resembling the rowdy, uneducated ramblings of backwoods racists rather than appraisals based on intellect, rationality and reason. "Islam, more than any other religion human beings have devised, has all the makings of a thoroughgoing cult of death.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Xenophobia, Practice

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• It is not permissible for a Muslim to buy products of the countries that are in a state of war with Islam and Muslims, for example, Israel.

  Ali al-Sistani

  Country, War, Israel

  "A Code of Practice For Muslims in the West". Book by Ali al-Sistani, January 2, 2014.

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• My favourite spectator sport is watching people who should know better searching for something, and often claiming to find it, where it never could be. Women claiming to find feminism in Islam is a good one.

  Julie Burchill

  Sports, People, Feminism

  "Music to the ears". www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2003.

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• Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death. The cross, crucified, and that turned into victory. Mohammad was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

  Karen Armstrong

  Men, Victory, Dying

  "Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org.

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• Democracy sometimes appears paralyzed by those who take advantage of its freedoms in order to abuse them for undemocratic ends.

  David Pryce-Jones

  Order, Abuse, Democracy

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• The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way.

  Newt Gingrich

  Way, Serious, Telling The Truth

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• Make the land of Islam a burning fire that burns their faces and feet wherever they pass.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Fire

  "Purported Saddam message: Burn them in Baghdad". www.cnn.com. April 4, 2003.

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• If the Qur'an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Bad Day, Word Of God, Ifs

  Free Inquiry Magazine, Volume 21, No. 4, Fall 2001.

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• There are more Muslims in North America then Jews Now.

  Dan Rather

  America, Jew, North America

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• "I am afraid that God has sent these men to lay waste the world".

  Gregory Palamas

  Men, World, Waste

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• Many people entertain the idea that Christianity,like almost any other religion,is basically a system of beliefs-you know, a set of doctrines or a code of behavior, a philosophy, an ideology. But that's a myth. Christianity is not at all like Buddhism or Islam or Confucianism. The founders of those religions said (in effect), 'Here is what I teach. Believe my teachings. Follow my philosophy.' Jesus said, 'Follow me'(Matthew 9:9). Leaders of the world's religions said, 'What do you think about what I teach?' Jesus said, 'Who do you say I am?'(Luke 9:20)

  Josh McDowell

  Jesus, Philosophy, Believe

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• The Koran claims for itself that it is "mubeen," or clear. But if you look at it, you will notice that every fifth sentence or so simply doesnt make sense. Many Muslims and Orientalists will tell you otherwise, of course, but the fact is that a fifth of the Koranic text is just incomprehensible.

  Gerd R. Puin

  Looks, Facts, Claims

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• I have never said that the terrorists' interpretation of Islam is the accurate or correct one. But I have pointed out that the terrorists portray themselves quite successfully among Muslims as the exponents of true and pure Islam, and moderates have mounted no successful response as yet.

  Robert Spencer

  Successful, Exponents, Interpretation

  "Honesty is the best policy, Bob". Jihad Watch (www.jihadwatch.org), July 19, 2007.

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• If there's a good side of Islam, at the end of the day it serves evil.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  Evil, The End Of The Day, Sides

  "Son of Hamas". GQ interview, www.gq.com. March 11, 2010.

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• If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Assuming, Christianity

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.96, Friederich Nietzsche

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• [The canonization of the Koran involved the] attribution of several, partially overlapping, collections of logia [sayings] (exhibiting a distinctly Mosaic imprint) to the image of a Biblical prophet (modified by the material of the Muhammadan evangelium into an Arabian man of God) with a traditional message of salvation (modified by the influence of Rabbinic Judaism into the unmediated and finally immutable word of God).

  John Wansbrough

  Biblical, Men, Mosaics

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• If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Children, Praying, Behave

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

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• From the Muslims I learned from the extraordinary pluralism of the Koran, the fact that the Koran endorses every single one of the major world faiths, but I was particularly enthralled by the Sufi tradition, the mystical tradition of Islam, which is so open to other religious faiths.

  Karen Armstrong

  Religious, World, Pluralism

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• One of the challenges that happened in Europe is that in accepting many Muslim people they didn't explain to them that those countries have particular values like equality of all people before the law. Islam does not accept people are equal before the law.

  Mark Durie

  Country, Europe, Law

  "Fear of Islam Episode Transcript". SBS Insight, www.sbs.com.au. November 2, 2010.

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• Though the white man is a kind of Satan, and though the black man is Satan for selling his own children into bondage and assassinating the image of his own mother, because he himself wants to be white'I can assure you that Africa has known no greater Satan than the twins, Arab and Islam.

  Kola Boof

  Mother, Children, Men

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