Mosques Quotes - Page 2

• I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a temple, a mosque, a church, a synagogue or agiary.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, House, Church

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command in control, no army and calls it a war.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Block, Islamic

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• For some reason, which I believe I can guess, the churches/mosques want control of people when or while they are the most vulnerable or suggestible. If they can't get them in school, then they get them when they are hungry, or frightened, or ill, or homeless, or unemployed. Same difference. Here's your gruel, and here's a tract.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Believe, School, Differences

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• We know broadly from research is that religiosity does not correlate with sympathy for terrorism. It's actually quite the opposite. The more religious someone is, the more often they go to the mosque, the more likely they are to actually reject attacks on civilians.

  Chuck Todd

  Religious, Opposites, Doe

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting?
  Better go drunk and begging round the taverns.
  Khayyam, drink wine, for soon this clay of yours
  Will make a cup, bowl, one day a jar.
  When once you hear the roses are in bloom,
  Then is the time, my love, to pour the wine;
  Houris and palaces and Heaven and Hell-
  These are but fairy-tales, forget them all.

  Omar Khayyam

  Atheist, Prayer, Wine

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• Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and that - it's astonishing. These numbers aren't duplicated anywhere else in the industrial world. You'd have to maybe go to mosques in Iran or do a poll among old ladies in Sicily to get numbers like this. Yet this is the American population.

  Noam Chomsky

  Religious, Believe, Iran

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.128, Soft Skull Press

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• The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Heart, Cities, Forever

  Address in Support of Religious Tolerance and New York City Mosque, delivered 3 August 2010, Governors Island, New York

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• But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans.

  Peter King

  Leadership, Country, Majority

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• Absolutely. If a Muslim who has-who is-a practicing Muslim who believes the word of the Koran to be the word of Allah, who abides by Islam, who goes to mosque and prays every Friday, who prays five times a day-this practicing Muslim, who believes in the teachings of the Koran, cannot be a loyal citizen to the United States of America.

  Brigitte Gabriel

  Friday, Believe, Teaching

  "Attention All 'Evil-Doers': This Really is a Religious War" by Chris Rodda, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 7, 2008.

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• Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming - the echo of God on the human wall!

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Spiritual, Wall

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

  Margaret Mead

  Men, Cities, Groups

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• And some needs and hurts are so deep they will only respond to a mentor's touch or a pastor's prayer. Church and charity, synagogue and mosque, lend our communities their humanity, and they will have an honored place in our plans and laws.

  George W. Bush

  Hurt, Prayer, Humor

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2001

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• This is for one simple reason: each Islamic mosque is dedicated to the overthrow of the American government.

  Bryan Fischer

  Islamic, Simple, Government

  "No More Mosques, Period" by Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. August 11, 2010.

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• The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people.

  Peter King

  Zero, Practice, People

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• But I do think its unwise, and it - to build a mosque at the site where 3,000 Americans lost their lives as a result of a terrorist attack. And I think to me it demonstrates that the - that Washington, the White House, the administration, the President himself seems to be disconnected from the mainstream of America.

  John Cornyn

  Thinking, White, America

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• We have our values from the church, the temple, the mosque. Do not rob, do not murder. But our behaviour changes the minute we go into the corporate place. Suddenly all of this is irrelevant.

  Anita Roddick

  Church, Behaviour, Temples

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• We have great cities to visit: New York and Washington, Paris and London; and further east, and older than any of these, the legendary city of Samarkand, whose crumbling palaces and mosques still welcome travelers on the Silk road. Weary of cities? Then we’ll take to the wilds. To the islands of Hawaii and the mountains of Japan, to forests where Civil War dead still lie, and stretches of sea no mariner ever crossed. They all have their poetry: the glittering cities and the ruined, the watery wastes and the dusty; I want to show you them all. I want to show you everything.

  Clive Barker

  New York, War, Lying

  "Galilee". Book by Clive Barker, February 3, 1999.

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• I looked for God. I went to a temple and I didn't find him there. Then I went to a church and I didn't find him there. The I went to a mosque and I didn't find him there. Then finally I looked in my heart and there he was.

  Rumi

  God, Heart, Church

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• If synagogues are attacked, this would give Jewish extremists an excuse to attack mosques.

  Mohammed Dahlan

  Giving, Excuse, Synagogue

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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, Islam, Events

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• When it comes to training imams, one needs a partner. But if we want the mosques to preach peaceful coexistence, we will have to do something about it. One goal of the conference is to find a partner for the training of imams and teachers of Islam in schools.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Teacher, School, Goal

  "SPIEGEL Interview with Interior Minister Wolfgang Schauble: 'We Have No Relationship to our Diverse Muslim Society'". Interview with Jan Fleischhauer and Holger Stark, www.spiegel.de. September 20, 2006.

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• I've watched towns and cities evolve and become very resilient, and fun, and unique, and prosperous on their own terms. And the secret is bridging. It's when the local church has a fun clothing swap fundraiser with a temple, and then the next year they bring in the mosque.

  Dar Williams

  Fun, Unique, Cities

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death - ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life.

  James A. Baldwin

  Passion, Army, Sacrifice

  "Letter from a Region of My Mind". The New Yorker, November 17, 1962. Republished in "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin as "Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind", 1963.

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• There are some mosques with facilities for women; it's usually a back room with a back-door entrance.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Doors, Rooms, Entrances

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• Islam lays great emphasis on the social side of things. Every day, the rich and the poor, the great and the small living in a locality are brought five times in a day in the mosque in the terms of perfect equality of mankind and thereby the foundation of a healthy social relationship is laid and established through prayer. At the end of Ramazan comes the new moon, the crescent as a signal for a mass gathering on the 'Id day again in perfect equality of mankind which effects the entire Muslim world.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Prayer, Moon, Perfect

  Message on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr, October, 1941.

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