Islam Quotes - Page 35

• For me, I think that the struggle around how to deal with Islam in the United States is the defining moral struggle of this half of the new century.

  Van Jones

  Struggle, Thinking, United States

  Source: pen.org

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• America cannot be America in the new century until it deals with these new questions of gender, including the trans issues, and the questions around faith and Islam.

  Van Jones

  America, Issues, Gender

  Source: pen.org

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• The war in Afghanistan was fought for feminist reasons, and the Marines were really on this feminist mission. But today, all the women in all these countries have been driven back into medieval situations. Women who were liberated, women who were doctors and lawyers and poets and writers and - you know, pushed back into this Shia set against Sunnis. The U.S. is supporting al-Qaeda militias all over this region and pretending that it's fighting Islam. So we are in a situation that is psychopathic.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, War, Fighting

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• After Iraq, there's been Libya, there's Syria, and the rhetoric of, you know, democracy versus radical Islam. When you look at the countries that were attacked, none of them were Wahhabi Islamic fundamentalist countries. Those ones are supported, financed by the U.S., so there is a real collusion between radical Islam and capitalism. What is going on is really a different kind of battle.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, Real, Islamic

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Prayer has never made you right, because right now our world of Islam is filled with abject hypocrisy in its religiosity.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Prayer, Our World, Hypocrisy

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Christianity, Christianity And Islam

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.113, Tara Publishing

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• I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian Love, Christianity, Hinduism

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.238, Vintage

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• The Allah of Islam is the same as the God of Christians and the Ishwar of Hindus.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Christianity, Christ

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• Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Democracy, Spells, Ifs

  Mahatma Gandhi (1982). “Collected Works”

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• Islam stands for the unity and brotherhood of mankind, and not for disrupting the oneness of the human family.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Oneness, Unity, Brotherhood

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

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• The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Reason, Accepted, Virgins

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.194, Tara Publishing

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• A perfect Muslim is he from whose tongue and hands mankind is safe.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hands, Perfect, Safe

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Islam appeals to people because it appeals also to reason.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People, Reason, Appeals

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Money and riches don't mean nothing to me. I don't care nothing about being no rich individual. I'm not living for glory or for fame; all this is doomed for destruction. You got it today, tomorrow it's gone. I got bigger things on my mind than that. I got Islam on my mind.

  Muhammad Ali

  Mean, Mind, Gone

  "Muhammad Ali: The Playboy Interviews". Book by Playboy, November 6, 2012.

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• I am not saying that I want to ban Islam. I want less Islam in Europe because it doesn't allow any room for debate.

  Geert Wilders

  Europe, Want, Rooms

  "Merkel Is Afraid". Interview with Walter Mayr and René Pfister, www.spiegel.de. November 9, 2010.

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• A key difference between Christianity and Islam is that Muslims believe that the Koran contains verbatim the word of God; it is written in the imperative. This precludes a comparison with Christianity.

  Geert Wilders

  Believe, Keys, Differences

  "Merkel Is Afraid". Interview with Walter Mayr and René Pfister, www.spiegel.de. November 9, 2010.

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• I think it's horrible that we Turks are always seen under the aspect of Islam first. I am constantly asked about religion, and almost always with a negative undercurrent that makes me furious.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Thinking, Negative, Firsts

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• East and West are coming together. Whether in peace or anarchy - they are coming together. There needn't be a clash between East and West, between Islam and Europe.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Europe, Together, East

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Islam, as a religion, has been established in France for a long time, and the religious question has been resolved in this country. Islam does not threaten France's future in any way.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Country, Religious, Long

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The dogmatic and, therefore, invulnerable core in Islam is understandably simple: acknowledgement of faith, prayer, charity and fasting. Almost everything else is open to interpretation and modification in space and time.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Prayer, Simple, Space

  "'They Live in a Bleak, Devastated Universe'". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. November 14, 2005.

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• Islam can only be modernized from within. If I state that I condemn the practice of stoning, that this punishment is despicable, it changes nothing. My fellow Muslims will say: Brother Tariq, you became a European, a Swiss citizen, so you are no longer one of us.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Brother, Practice, Punishment

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• I'm not criticizing how people experience what they might call spirituality. I am interested in looking critically at something else - at how people use their language to articulate theories about something they call religion, to say, for example, that "in Islam religion and politics necessarily go together," or to insist that "violence has no place in religion," to universalize it.

  Talal Asad

  People, Together, Example

  "Do Muslims Belong in the West? An Interview with Talal Asad". Interview with Hasan Azad, www.eutopiainstitute.org. February 13, 2015.

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• I think the approach to Islam as a tradition is helpful. Tradition helps us to focus on questions about authority and temporality, and about the language used in relation to the two.

  Talal Asad

  Thinking, Two, Focus

  "Do Muslims Belong in the West? An Interview with Talal Asad". Interview with Hasan Azad, www.jadaliyya.com. February 3, 2015.

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• Is Islam a religion of peace? I'm sure for some of the practitioners, but it's been hijacked by people who have an ideology that wants to destroy western civilization, and they're barbarians.

  Jeb Bush

  Civilization, People, Want

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• Without criticism of Islam, Islam will remain unassailed in its dogmatic, fanatical, medieval fortress; ossified, totalitarian and intolerant. It will continue to stifle thought, human rights, individuality, originality and truth.

  Wafa Sultan

  Rights, Individuality, Criticism

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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