Islamic Quotes - Page 16

• The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Age, Elements, Want

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Arab and Islamic nation has lost a great man and one of its fearless men who dedicated his life to the service of the people of this nation and their aspirations.

  Saad Hariri

  Men, People, Fearless

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• When someone comes under abuse or attack a characteristic response is to blame yourself, especially if you are locked into a relationship of being attacked regularly, and making apologies for your abuser. It actually affects Christians living in Islamic circumstances more, and one Palestinian Christian spoke about that problem of needing to defend Islam in order to protect yourself.

  Mark Durie

  Christian, Apology, Order

  "Fear of Islam". SBS Insight, www.sbs.com.au. November 2, 2010.

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• There are some disturbing messages in the Koran, there were declarations of war against non-believers, there's a declaration that Islam should be triumphant over other religions, the problem is this is not just in the book, but preached throughout the Islamic world that are preached, we in the West hear about that.

  Mark Durie

  War, Book, World

  "Fear of Islam". SBS Insight, www.sbs.com.au. November 2, 2010.

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• There's really no such thing as just Sharia, it's not one monolithic Continuum - Sharia is understood in thousands of different ways over the 1,500 years in which multiple and competing schools of law have tried to construct some kind of civic penal and family law code that would abide by Islamic values and principles, it's understood in many different ways.

  Mark Durie

  School, Years, Law

  "Sharia Deceptions" by Robert Spencer, www.frontpagemag.com. November 3, 2010.

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• Speaking as a Muslim in the West, I see a crisis in religious authority, we need Indigenous Muslim scholarship understanding the Western way of life and is able to use the understanding, using legitimate Islamic sources to bring more scholarship to our way of life in the west. There's a need for that.

  Mark Durie

  Religious, Understanding, Needs

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• It is not possible to starve an organised terrorist group because it is number one a state, so it levies taxation inside the territory that is controlled by Islamic State. But also the activity, for example the smuggling of oil, is taking place in an area which is a war zone. So of course people will buy that oil because they don't have any alternative. So even if we wanted to stop that kind of trade, it will be very, very difficult to do that.

  Loretta Napoleoni

  War, Oil, Numbers

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• So I think if we want to turn the table around, more than thinking about how can we starve the Islamic State in terms of money, we should think about how can we maximise the amount of resources that we have in order to secure ourselves. For us, instead of bombing so much, which is extremely expensive, perhaps, you know, we should use some of that money in order to protect ourselves.

  Loretta Napoleoni

  Thinking, Order, Use

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman. The clerics took to the mosque saying that Pakistan had thrown itself outside the Muslim world and the Muslim umar by voting for a woman, that a woman had usurped a man's place in the Islamic society.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Men, People, Voting

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• I want to see the U.S become an Islamic nation.

  Ibrahim Hooper

  Want, Nations

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• Theologians will protest that the story of Abraham sacrificing Issac should not be taken as literal fact. And the appropriate response is twofold: first, many, many people even to this day, do take the whole of their Scripture to be literal fact, and they have a great deal of political power over the rest of us, especially in the United States and in the Islamic world. Second, if not of literal fact, how should we take the story? As an alagory? Then an alagory for what? Surely, nothing praiseworthy. As a moral lesson? But what kind of morals could one derive from this appalling story?

  Richard Dawkins

  Taken, Sacrifice, Two

  "Richard Dawkins and God". "Background Briefing" with Kirsten Garrett on ABC Radio National, www.abc.net.au. November 26, 2006.

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• If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in an unfree society like Iran's. The reason is that coerced virtues are not virtues at all.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  America, Virtue, Free Society

  "10 things to celebrate / Why I'm an anti-anti-American" by Dinesh D'Souza, www.sfgate.com. June 29, 2003.

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• That, by the way, is perhaps the most ludicrous comment I've ever heard, that climate change is a bigger threat to our country than radical Islamic terrorism.

  Jeb Bush

  Country, Climate, Way

  "Jeb calls Obama comment linking climate change to terrorism 'perhaps the most ludicrous comment I've ever heard'". www.dailymail.co.uk. November 25, 2015.

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• [Barack Obama] believes climate change is a bigger threat to our country than these barbaric Islamic terrorists that have as their organizing principle the destruction of Western civilization.

  Jeb Bush

  Country, Believe, Civilization

  "Jeb calls Obama comment linking climate change to terrorism 'perhaps the most ludicrous comment I've ever heard'" by J. Taylor Rushing, www.dailymail.co.uk. November 25, 2015.

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• A points-based system like Australia has zero Islamic racial immigration.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Zero, Australia, Immigration

  Source: thestagblog.com

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• The Islamic ideology is a political ideology based on a religion.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Political, Ideology, Political Ideology

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Al-Qaeda, ISIS, they can't be Islamic. Islam is the religion of peace. They are bastardizing it. They are frauds. They are calling themselves Islamic and they are calling themselves Muslim, but they're not. Because Islam is as anti-terror as you and I are. Islam is the religion of peace. I'm telling you what our government's position is. The US military position.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Military, Government, Isis

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I believe there's a diseased component inside the Islamic world, the Muslim world, absolutely. It's like a cancer and it has metastasized and grabbed hold in a much bigger way, and it's because we, have tried to be, globally, tried to be so political correct.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Cancer, Believe, Political

  "Trump adviser Michael T. Flynn on his dinner with Putin and why Russia Today is just like CNN". Interview with Dana Priest, www.washingtonpost.com. August 15, 2016.

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• When considering the Islamic world, Turkey is the best example of a country where democracy irreversibly gained a foothold despite religious and cultural traditions still respected today. With some reservation, this can be said about Pakistan, too, where we can observe dynamic political processes going on [and] governments change as a result of elections. In my opinion, it is up to the ruling elite to initiate cardinal changes.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Religious, Turkeys

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S. is.The other view is of the official United States, the United States of armies and interventions. The United States that in 1953 overthrew the nationalist government of Mossadegh in Iran and brought back the shah. The United States that has been involved first in the Gulf War and then in the tremendously damaging sanctions against Iraqi civilians. The United States that is the supporter of Israel against the Palestinians.

  Edward Said

  Country, War, Army

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Let me state this as clearly as I can: We are going to keep radical Islamic terrorists the hell out of our country. We will not be deterred from this course, and in a matter of days, we will be taking brand new action to protect out people and keep America safe. You will see the action.

  Donald Trump

  Country, America, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Today [ Sun Tzu] ideas are not widely applied, at least among Islamic dissidents, whose profligate use of indiscriminate terrorism appears to limit the appeal of their ideas rather than to "win hearts and minds," as the Vietminh and the National Liberation Front did in Vietnam so many decades ago.

  William J. Duiker

  Heart, Winning, Ideas

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• The west is very concerned and actually afraid because the media is not informing them. There are too many moderate Muslims who are trying to whitewash the fears and concerns of the West. It's time for us to face reality - nobody is against Muslims. When I'm speaking about this situation, it's about Islamic doctrine. Islamic doctrine promotes violence and hatred against non Muslims. 60% of the Koran is dedicated to cursing and spreading hatred and violence against non-Muslims who are called 'Kaffir'.

  Reza Aslan

  Reality, Media, Hatred

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Sufism has always had the function of purifying Islamic ethics and that fasting and tazkiya is like lighting a lamp.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Fasting, Lamps, Ethics

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Jalaluddin Rumi is completely rooted in Islamic teachings of Quran. He was a great scholar, he belonged to a madrassa, and he knew Islamic theology and jurisprudence very well. He knew Persian, Arabic and Turkish, which was coming into Anatolia at that time, very well. He was a remarkable, remarkable scholar, besides being a great saint.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Teaching, Saint, Jurisprudence

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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