Islam Quotes - Page 37

• 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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• Western intellectual Islamologists have totally failed in their duties as intellectuals. They have betrayed their calling by abandoning their critical faculties when it comes to Islam.

  Wafa Sultan

  Intellectual, Calling, Betrayed

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• Islam is according to me, my party, not so much a religion as well as it is a totalitarian ideology.

  Geert Wilders

  Party, Wells, Ideology

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• Look how in societies today where Islam is dominant and prominent, how any non-Islamic person, whether it's a Christian or an apostate or a woman or a critical journalist, how they are treated. This is in a very bad way, often with the death penalty or imprisonment or all those kind of terrible things.

  Geert Wilders

  Christian, Islamic, Looks

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• What I'm trying to do when I visit Australia, is warn Australians that even though it might not be the case today, learn from the mistakes that we made in Europe: be vigilant and look at Islam for what it really is.

  Geert Wilders

  Mistake, Europe, Australia

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• The best example is that if any person, any Muslim wants to leave Islam, then the penalty is death. It is not even allowed to leave it. That's why I believe Islam should not be compared with other religions like Christianity or Judaism.

  Geert Wilders

  Believe, Example, Want

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• Islam should be compared to other totalitarian ideologies like Communism or Fascism.

  Geert Wilders

  Communism, Should, Fascism

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• There is no radical or moderate Islam. There is only one Islam and that is the Islam from the Koran, the holy book. That is the Islam from Mohammed. There are no two sorts of Islam.

  Geert Wilders

  Book, Two, Holy

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• As a matter of fact the majority of the Muslims living in our society are moderate people. But don't make the mistake that even though there are moderate and radical Muslims that there is a moderate or a radical Islam.

  Geert Wilders

  Mistake, People, Majority

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• Indeed, as long as a country has a culture a religion an ideology where Islam is dominant it will never be a democracy.

  Geert Wilders

  Country, Long, Democracy

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• Why is it not possible to build a church in Saudi Arabia where as we in the Netherlands have almost 500 mosques being built; why is it not possible to buy or sell a Bible in any Muslim or most of the Muslim countries, whereas we can buy a Koran here on every street corner? This is the exact example of the fact that Islam is an intolerant society.

  Geert Wilders

  Country, Church, Example

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• We should be able to see Islam for what it is, make a distinction between the people and the ideology, and stop with being politically correct, and address the problems, as many people see it when it comes to the Islamisation of their country.

  Geert Wilders

  Country, People, Addresses

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• [We should] stop the immigration to our societies - because we have had more than enough Islam in our societies.

  Geert Wilders

  Immigration, Our Society, Enough

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• I had gone to - that was my second time going to the mosque. And then at that time we met [with my wife], she was Muslim and - but was at a point where - because her father is an imam and her mother, though, is a convert, but she was basically raised Muslim. And she was at that point where she was deciding or trying to come to terms with her own relationship with Islam and how to embrace that for herself. So I was sort of trying to come walk toward it.

  Mahershala Ali

  Mother, Father, Wife

  Source: www.npr.org

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• So many Muslims would tell you that they felt like that you had to - you fold it into yourself because people were looking at you and recognizing you as being the culprit even though, look, I'm American. I don't believe that the teachings of Islam justified those actions.

  Mahershala Ali

  Believe, Teaching, People

  Source: www.npr.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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• It is the Muslim community that has the best chance of stopping and checking and pushing back on people who are trying to politicize their own faith. So this attack on Islam is an attack on a great faith. It undermines the people who are trying to rescue this faith from these horrible people. It endangers every human being on earth because it accelerates the radicalization of some and emboldens the worst elements of that faith. So this fight is a fight I think that we have to take on.

  Van Jones

  Fighting, Thinking, People

  Source: pen.org

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• The idea that you can separate jihadi terrorism from Islam is exactly what got us in the mess we are today, with 65 million refugees around the world and with ISIS controlling territory in multiple countries.

  Sebastian Gorka

  Country, Isis, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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