Islam Quotes - Page 21

• Even the Islam stuff I thought was pretty respectful about Islam in a funny way. I mean, yes, from a secular point of view, but it talks about the birth of this religion, and I thought it was pretty admiring of the person at the center of it, the prophet of Islam.

  Salman Rushdie

  Mean, Views, Stuff

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• Any strong Muslim regime that threatens Israel, and we did. He said the Americans only want oil, and, of course, Iraq has the second-largest reserves. And he said that we will always replace God's law with manmade law. And finally that we intended to occupy and destroy Islamic sanctities. And I suspect that in our government, very few people knew that Iraq was the second-holiest place in Islam, after the Arabian Peninsula.

  Michael Scheuer

  Strong, Islamic, Government

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Every mujahadeen who comes in from outside the country finds an environment where Arabic is spoken. So in that sense, it's a tremendous come-on for the young in Islam. But I think much more important is, it just validates so much of what the Muslim world is predisposed to believe.

  Michael Scheuer

  Country, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We now have some years of very reliable polling by Western firms in the Islamic world, in multiple Islamic countries. And invariably, the question that asks, "Do you view U.S. foreign policy as an attack on Islam and Muslims?" is maxed out. Whether it's Jordan or Indonesia or Egypt, you get 80,85 percent of people saying "Yes."

  Michael Scheuer

  Country, Islamic, Egypt

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Islam is a civilization that is fractured linguistically, ethnically, sectarian-wise, as ours is. What bin Laden has done, though, is to identify a number of issues that are tangible and visceral for Muslims. His indictment list of Western support for Arab tyranny, our ability to keep oil prices too low - at least until recently - our occupation of the Arabian Peninsula.

  Michael Scheuer

  Wise, Civilization, Oil

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Just as some of the most ardent political ideologues in the West are young people, revolutionaries, the '60s generation, - in Islam some of the most religious people are the youngsters. But more important than that, the prophet - in his writings, in his traditions - and the Koran itself say that the Muslim youth are the ones whom the future depends on and that it's up to them to do the fighting.

  Michael Scheuer

  Religious, Writing, Fighting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• However, after the assassination of Salman Taseer, the killer of Salman Taseer was welcomed by the religious fanatics. And they showered rose petals on him and declared him a hero of Islam. That is a matter of concern for every peace-loving citizen of Pakistan because terrorists and killers should not be given this type of encouragement. And this is encouragement for other people to take lives with their own hands and kill innocent people.

  Shahbaz Bhatti

  Encouragement, Religious, Hero

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• There was a good moment in Islam when people were actually challenging authority at every level. Very different from the world we live in.

  Tariq Ali

  People, Challenges, Different

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• The idea that I had anything to do with speaking about Islam or about the Muslim world was just absurd to my family. ... I hadn't been to the mosque in like 10 years.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Years, Ideas, Mosques

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I mean, but obviously, in people's eyes, it still - it can still link Islam to terrorism. I mean, why does it make a difference that they're white?

  Aasif Mandvi

  Mean, Eye, White

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• I was accused of insulting the president, insulting Islam, insulting - spreading rumors, disturbing the peace.

  Bassem Youssef

  Insulting, Rumor, President

  "'Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.

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• I do not believe, that it is true or right that Islam is terrorist.

  Pope Francis

  Believe, Terrorist

  "Full text of Pope Francis' in-flight presser from Poland". www.catholicnewsagency.com. July 31, 2016.

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• I have clearly said we faced terrorist enemies who use Islam to justify slaughtering innocent people and we have to stop them and we will. We have to defeat radical jihadist terrorism.

  Hillary Clinton

  People, Enemy, Use

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Islam wants to destroy us and I want to prevent it.

  Geert Wilders

  Want

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Islam is nothing but man's exclusive and total submission to God.

  Abul A'la Maududi

  Men, Submission To God, Exclusive

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• Obama and Hillary Clinton - and dare I say most of the Democrat Party. They refuse to accept that there is terrorism in Islam. They refuse to believe that the Muslim religion has aspects of it that are oriented toward terror. They refuse to acknowledge the whole concept of Islamic supremacist ideology.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Islamic, Party

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We don't understand enough about the Islam religion and Muslim world.

  Madeleine Albright

  World, Enough, Muslim World

  "Online Extra: Madeleine Albright on Democracy and Force". Transcript of the former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, www.bloomberg.com. December 23, 2002.

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• I've said repeatedly that where we see terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda or ISIL, they have perverted and distorted and tried to claim the mantle of Islam for an excuse, for basically barbarism and death. These are people who kill children, kill Muslims, take sex slaves - there's no religious rationale that would justify in any way any of the things that they do.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Sex, Children

  CNN Presidential Town Hall: America’s Military and The Commander and Chief, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. September 28, 2016.

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• America is not at war with Islam. And it is a mistake and it plays into the hands of the terrorists to act as though we are.

  Hillary Clinton

  War, Mistake, Hands

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• U.S. Constitution is under attack from Fundamentalist Islam and shari'a.

  Pamela Geller

  Constitution, Fundamentalist

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• Islamic Religious Law Fundamentalist Islam wants shari'a to replace the U.S. Constitution and fundamentally transform America.

  Pamela Geller

  Religious, Islamic, Law

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• Now that they talk about Islam as being a violent faith, when you look at the history of Christendom, the Crusades and the many wars of religion that were fought, the cruelty of Christians in burning what they believed to be witches and burning heretics, and then very recently they were responsible for the Holocaust... it was Christians.

  Desmond Tutu

  Christian, War, Holocaust

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• Obviously there are divisions within the West and divisions within Islam - there are different sects, different communities, different countries. So neither one is homogenous at all. But they do have things in common.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, Community, Different

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• People everywhere talk about Islam and the West. Presumably that has some relationship to reality, that these are entities that have some meaning and they do. Of course the core ofthat reality is differences in religion.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Reality, Differences, People

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• I think in theory, the United States finds it much easier to deal with situations where there is a leading country. You can go to the leaders of that country and say, for example, to India, "There are all these problems in Bangladesh, we really have to do something about it, what do you suggest we can do to work out a common policy?" But when you don't have the equivalent of India, you have to go capital to capital trying to put together a coalition, which is extraordinarily difficult, especially in the Arab world, because of the historic rivalries and branches of Islam.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, Thinking, Work Out

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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