Islamic Quotes - Page 28

• It is my responsibility to make sure that the fear is overcome… “This attack must instead free our speech about Islamic fundamentalism. We must not be silenced.

  Marine Le Pen

  Responsibility, Overcoming, Speech

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• The Soviet Union was brought down by a strange global coalition of Western European conservatives, Eastern European nationalists, Russian liberals, Chinese communists, and Afghan Islamic reactionaries, to name only a few. Many of these discordant groups disliked the United States intensely. But Americans were able to mobilize them to direct their ire at the Soviet Union first.

  David Frum

  War, Names, Chinese

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• Much to my surprise, the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less violent than those in the Bible.

  Philip Jenkins

  Scripture, Quran, Surprise

  "Is The Bible More Violent Than The Quran?". "All Things Considered" with Barbara Bradley Hagerty, www.npr.org. March 18, 2010.

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• Gabriel Levin's book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East. What's astonishing and refreshing is his ability to combine the reporter's perspective with a deep knowledge of poetry, including pre-Islamic Arab poems. A brilliant poet is at work here-a poet in the rugged landscape of conflict and pain.

  Adam Zagajewski

  Pain, Book, Journey

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• Egyptians undergo an odd personality change behind the wheel of a car. In every other setting, aggression and impatience are frowned upon. The unofficial Egyptian anthem "Bokra, Insha'allah, Malesh" (Tomorrow, God Willing, Never Mind) isn't just an excuse for laziness. In a society requiring millennial patience, it is also a social code dictating that no one make too much of a fuss about things. But put an Egyptian in the driver's seat and he shows all the calm and consideration of a hooded swordsman delivering Islamic justice.

  Tony Horwitz

  Justice, Car, Personality

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• Well, if I use Hispanic culture I get corruption and really good salsa music. If I use Chinese culture I get rigid thinking and decent Szechwan. If I use Islamic culture I get...not damned much of anything. And ditto for Africa although at least the rhythm is good and you can dance to it. But if I use Western European Culture I get industry, higher standards of living, longer lifespans and a generally happier society. Damn, I think I'll just have to go with WesternCiv even if I do have to put up with the Lutherans.

  John Ringo

  Thinking, Chinese, Politics

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• Why is our media quick to find evil in our local police, but tnot in Islamic terror?

  Greg Gutfeld

  Media, Evil, Police

  "Gutfeld: Where there's no will, there's no way". www.foxnews.com. January 13, 2015.

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• Before, revolutions used to have ideological names. They could be communist, they could be liberal, they could be fascist or Islamic. Now, the revolutions are called under the medium which is most used. You have Facebook revolutions, Twitter revolutions. The content doesn't matter anymore - the problem is the media.

  Ivan Krastev

  Media, Names, Matter

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• Even the most radical Islamic terrorist would not want to see the revered holy city of Medina go up. It would be like losing the Vatican in Rome.

  Nelson DeMille

  Rome, Cities, Would Be

  "Yo, Terrorists: Make Our Day" by Michael Smerconish, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 01, 2006.

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• I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand years old, is the Pharaonic civilization; the second, one thousand four hundred years old, is the Islamic civilization.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Son, Years, Civilization

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• The fundamental difference between Islamic government, on the one hand, and constitutional monarchy and republics, on the other, is this: whereas the representatives of the people or the monarch in such regimes engage in legislation, in Islam the legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to God Almighty.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Differences, Government, Hands

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• I think we can all agree [Bashar] Assad is a bad and evil actor, but I'm not so sure that we want the Islamic rebels to be in charge of Syria either.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Evil, Rebel

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• The second part of that war was that Muslims came from all over the country to Pakistan, and they met each other. For the first time those men had an awareness of the Islamic world as a whole, not of just Egypt or Algeria or Indonesia, but of what Muslims call the Uma, the Islamic community. And that's an extraordinarily important thing. And that emanated in Pakistan.

  Michael Scheuer

  Country, War, Men

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Saying that the origin of the Islamic State (IS) is within the Muslim Brotherhood organisation only strengthens IS. This is what the Israeli government asserts when claiming that Hamas and IS are the exact same thing. By saying so, the historical resistance [against the Israeli occupation] is viewed as unlawful, called extremism and terrorism.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Government, Historical, Brotherhood

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• I'm working on different fields. One of my next books Insha'Allah will be a novel because it's important to explore the heart and imagination, the spiritual side. I've been working for twenty five years in the legal field and now I'm reaching what I want, which is an Islamic applied ethics and I'm also dealing with Muslims in the West.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Spiritual, Book, Heart

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• I don't think he fully analyzes the situation. If you destabilize [Bashar] Assad and punish Assad, you do embolden terrorists. You embolden al-Qaida because al-Qaida is on the other side of this war. So, one side wins if you destabilize the other side. So, he will be emboldening al-Qaida and the Islamic rebels. And I'm not so sure they're better than Assad.

  Rand Paul

  War, Thinking, Winning

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• You can forgive your leaders for not knowing the intricacies of Islamic history. You cannot forgive them for not knowing their own. And when you look at American democracy, where did it start? It started, if you need to pick a point, at Runnymede in 1215. We have now been at this process, we and our English-speaking allies, for 800 years.

  Michael Scheuer

  Years, Knowing, Leader

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• First of all, there's no separation of church and state in the Islamic world. They're one and the same. And so when President Bush or Senator Kerry or Prime Minister Blair says, "Look, adopt our secular democracy, look at how good we've done. We have a wonderful level of standard of living for our people," what many Muslims hear is, "Turn your back on God and follow what men say."

  Michael Scheuer

  Men, People, Democracy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I draw a distinction between traditional Islam and Islamism. Islamism emerged in its modern form in the 1920s and is driven by a belief that Muslims can be strong and rich again if they follow the Islamic law severely and in its entirety. This is a response to the trauma of modern Islam.

  Daniel Pipes

  Strong, Law, Belief

  "Islam and Islamism in the Modern World". Interview with Tom Bethell, spectator.org. February 8, 2013.

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• Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.

  Ralph Peters

  Zero, Extravagant, Radius

  "When Rights Make Wrongs" by Ralph Peters, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 18, 2010.

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• I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith, the teachings of the prophet. That's how I trained myself. And then I was appointed imam by a Sufi master from Istanbul, Turkey.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Philosophy, Teaching, Istanbul

  "Creating A New Vision Of Islam In America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 9, 2012.

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• The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a little complicated. But we do have a tradition of scholarship, and rules of scholarship. It's very much like any field of knowledge.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Church, Littles, Fields

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• Nobody can deny there is a rise of Islamic fundamentalism.

  Dominique de Villepin

  Deny, Islamic Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism

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• The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government's approach to Islamic terrorism.

  Amy Waldman

  Government, September 11, Fundamentals

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• Sooner or later there will be a nuclear 9/11 [by Islamic terrorists] in an American city or that of a US ally... A terrorist nuclear attack against an American city could take many forms. A worst case scenario would be the detonation of a nuclear device within a city. Depending upon the size and sophistication of the weapon, it could kill hundreds of thousands or even millions of people.

  David Krieger

  Cities, Worst Case Scenario, People

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