Reza Aslan Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

• Bill Maher is right to condemn religious practices that violate fundamental human rights. Religious communities must do more to counter extremist interpretations of their faith. But failing to recognize that religion is embedded in culture — and making a blanket judgment about the world’s second largest religion — is simply bigotry.

  Reza Aslan

  Religious, Failure, Rights

  "Bill Maher Isn’t the Only One Who Misunderstands Religion" by Reza Aslan, www.nytimes.com. October 8, 2014.

• [Islam] is the dynamic conviction that a person's spiritual and worldly responsibilities are one and the same, that an individuals duty to the community is indistinguishable from his or her duty to God.

  Reza Aslan

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Community

• There's no question that homophobia is rampant among the world's 1.5 billion Muslims - but that doesn't negate the fact that there are huge groups of Muslims who have easily reconciled their faith and sexual orientation, like LGBT people in other faith communities.

  Reza Aslan

  People, Community, Groups

• If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia can't drive, he'll say, 'Because Islam demands it.' But that's absurd, because - first of all - Islam demands no such thing; and secondly, the only country in the world in which women can't drive is Saudi Arabia. The inability to understand the difference between a cultural practice and religious belief is shocking among self-described intellectuals.

  Reza Aslan

  Leadership, Wisdom, Country

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