Islamic Quotes - Page 25

• Christians got a lot of work to do. But, the spirit of Dorothy Day is alive. Martin Luther King is still alive. Malcolm X and the prophetic Islamic tradition is still alive. We can't lose sight of those prophetic religious folk who, even given their kin in the same tradition, says, you all are wrong on this, but we're still in the same tradition.

  Cornel West

  Christian, Religious, Kings

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• After 911, the US Government engaged in mock investigations and shut down many small Islamic charities and organizations, giving the appearance of action in the so-called 'War on Terror.' Why did they harbor, support and resource Fethullah Gulen's $25 billion madrassa-and-mosque-establishment efforts throughout the Central Asian region and the Balkans?

  Sibel Edmonds

  War, Government, Organization

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• Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.

  Azar Nafisi

  Sex, Republic, Loathe

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.329, Random House

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• For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy.

  Azar Nafisi

  Struggle, Iran, Years

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• I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic.

  Azar Nafisi

  Iran, Years, Degrees

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• I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture - as if women like to be stoned to death, or as if they like to be married at the age of nine.

  Azar Nafisi

  People, Age, Culture

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• In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and Iran's culture.

  Azar Nafisi

  Past, Years, Rights

  "Iran’s Women: Canaries in the Coal Mine" by Azar Nafisi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2010.

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• After the rigged Iranian presidential elections in 2009, the Islamic regime attacked the 'humanities' as the main source of protests, the most effective tool used by the West, especially America, to corrupt and incite Iranian youth, and finally closed down all the Humanities departments in Iran's universities.

  Azar Nafisi

  America, Iran, Presidential

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• I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Aggravation, Doe, Way

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• This is for one simple reason: each Islamic mosque is dedicated to the overthrow of the American government.

  Bryan Fischer

  Simple, Government, Mosques

  "No More Mosques, Period" by Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. August 11, 2010.

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• Why wouldn't we consider doing to Islamic extremists what Glenn Greenwald does routinely to Republicans?

  Stewart Baker

  Doe, Republican, Extremist

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• After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the government has no moral authority to stay in power.

  Sheikh Hasina

  Terror Attacks, Government, Years

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• As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.

  Abdolkarim Soroush

  Ethnicity, Aggravation, Identity

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• For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September 11th, 2001.

  Zach Wamp

  Years, September 11, Twenties

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• If we pulled out of Iraq tomorrow, Islamic jihadism is on the rise. And they continue, as we see in Lebanon, to seek to destroy the State of Israel and seek to drive America back and bring us to our knees. We must stand tall and straight.

  Zach Wamp

  Israel, Iraq, America

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• The life of Islamic philosophy did not terminate with Ibn Rushd nearly eight hundred years ago, as thought by Western scholarship for several centuries. Rather, its activities continued strongly during the later centuries, particularly in Persia and other eastern lands of Islam, and it was revived in Egypt during the last century.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Philosophy, Eight, Egypt

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• From it genesis twelve hundred years ago to today, Islamic philosophy (al-hikmah; al-falsafah) has been one of the major intellectual traditions within the Islamic world, and it has influenced and been influenced by many other intellectual perspectives, including Scholastic theology (kalam) and doctrinal Sufism (al-ma'rifah or al-tasawwuf al-'ilmi) and theoretical gnosis ('irfan-i nazari).

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Philosophy, Years, Gnosis

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• At some point we must realize that actively defending against radical Islamic teachings is not a matter of cultural relativity. It is a matter of universally recognized human rights.

  Armstrong Williams

  Teaching, Rights, Matter

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• That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life.

  David Hackworth

  Religious, Axes, Goal

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• Shannen Rossmiller's work in exposing Islamic terrorists has genuinely made our country safer. She has dedicated her life to combating the terrorist threat against the United States and has amazingly been able to infiltrate and actually stop terrorist operations. Our entire country owes her an immeasurable debt of gratitude.

  Steven Emerson

  Country, Gratitude, United States

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• Our dear Imam said that the occupying regime [in Israel] must be wiped off the map and this was a very wise statement. We cannot compromise over the issue of Palestine... I have no doubt that the new wave that has started in Palestine, and we witness it in the Islamic world too, will eliminate this disgraceful stain from the Islamic world.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Issues, Israel, Doubt

  "The World Without Zionism". Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech at the Islamic Student Associations conference at the Interior Ministry in Tehran, www.nytimes.com. October 26, 2005.

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• Anyone who recognizes this regime [Israel] because of the pressure of the World oppressor, or because of naiveté or selfishness, will be eternally disgraced and will burn in the fury of the Islamic nations.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Israel, Selfishness, World

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• Since taking office, I've made it clear that the United States was prepared to begin a new chapter of engagement with the Islamic Republic of Iran. We offered the Iranian government a clear choice. It could fulfill its international obligations and realize greater security, deeper economic and political integration with the world, and a better future for all Iranians. Or it could continue to flout its responsibilities and face even more pressure and isolation.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Iran, Government

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• There is an Islamic population in France, most of which comes from the North African countries.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Country, Population, France

  "The veil? It protects us from ugly women" by Adar Primor, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2002.

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• The bitter hatreds that now poison Middle Eastern politics are rooted in the real or perceived wrong of the setting up of a Jewish State in an Islamic region. In view of all that the Jews had been through, it must have seemed a fair and humane solution. Probably deep familiarity with the Old Testament had given the European and American decision-makers some sort of idea that this really was the historic homeland of the Jews.

  Richard Dawkins

  Real, Ideas, Israel

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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