Muslim Family Quotes

• Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

  Salman Rushdie

  Female, Three, Veils

  "Rushdie backs Straw in row over Muslim veils" by Riazat Butt, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2006.

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• If the Koran is the soul of Islam, then perhaps the institution of the Muslim family might be described as its body.

  Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

  Soul, Religion, Islam

  Elizabeth Warnock Fernea (1985). “Women and the family in the Middle East: new voices of change”

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• You and I are not Muslim, because we are born in a Muslim family. You and I are not Muslim, because you read a book about Islam, or saw a Youtube video and decided to become Muslim. We are Muslim, because Allah chose us. Allah chose us.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Book, Islam, Video

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• When you have a candidate like Donald Trump saying that Mexicans are rapists and drug dealers, and also doubling down and suggesting that we should deport 11 million undocumented workers, who are mostly people that came to this country to better themselves, and to patrol neighborhoods of predominantly Muslims families. This shows you how deeply held those feelings really are in our country and that the Republicans have absolutely no interest in helping minorities.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Country, People, Feelings

  Source: ciudadweston.com

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• The Jews have a powerful ally, America, but they do not really have a bigger family in the same way that there is a European family or an Arab-Muslim family. People who fail to understand this ambivalence will never understand this country. They will not be able to understand how Netanyahu could win the last election by saying the Iranians are coming, Islamic State (IS) is coming, the Arabs are coming, and the whole world hates us anyway.

  Amos Oz

  Country, Powerful, Hate

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Midnight, Novel

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• I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Mother, Brother, Father

  "Taslima Nasrin and the Struggle Against Religious Fundamentalism". Interview with ISIS, www.taslimanasrin.com.

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• I believe that the dysfunctional Muslim family constitutes a real threat to the very fabric of western life. It is in the family that children are groomed to practise, promote and pass on the norms of their parents' culture.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Children, Real, Believe

  "Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations". Book by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2010.

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