Islamic Quotes - Page 30

• So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Determination, Book, Law

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• Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Intellectual, Age, Pakistan

  Benazir Bhutto (1989). “Speeches and Statements: Apr. 2-Nov. 14, 1989”

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• The United States did not choose to fight Islamic extremists. These terrorists chose to fight our way of life. They chose to challenge our existence.

  John Boehner

  Fighting, Challenges, Way

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• Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror.

  Omar Bongo

  Country, Egypt, Starting Over

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• Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks in New York and Washington, is the best known of the Islamic militants to have emerged in the past 20 years and the least difficult to fathom.

  James Buchan

  New York, Inspiration, Past

  "Inside the mind of a terrorist". www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2001.

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• We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Democracy, Earth

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• Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.

  John Cusack

  Black And White, Evil, Facts

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• I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'

  Richard Dawkins

  Children, Catholic, Young

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• A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.

  Jim DeMint

  Light, Iraq, Shining

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• Europe is no longer Europe, it is 'Eurabia,' a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Europe, Doe, Invasion

  "Prophet of Decline" by Tunku Varadarajan, www.wsj.com. June 23, 2005.

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• Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Kings, Real, Leader

  "The Agitator" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 5, 2006.

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• And, these Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world.

  Jerry Falwell

  Monsters, World, Driving

  "Transcript of Pat Robertson's Interview with Jerry Falwell". "The 700 Club" with Pat Robertson, archive.commondreams.org. September 13, 2001.

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• White people are potential humans - they haven't evolved yet.

  Louis Farrakhan

  White, People, Humans

  The Philadelphia Inquirer (p. 26), March 19, 2000.

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• Many of the Jews who owned the homes, the apartments in the black community, we considered them bloodsuckers because they took from our community and built their community but didn't offer anything back to our community.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Home, Community, Black

  "Its goal more widely accepted than its leader". www.cnn.com. October 17, 1995.

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• Every Palestinian family feels the effects of the international embargo. But the more the pressure on the government grows, the more support we receive, both from the Palestinian street and from the Arab and Islamic world.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Government, Support, World

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• I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Christian, War, World

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• I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Kites, Sun, Splendid

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• We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Men, Light, Should Have

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• According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Men, Choices, Principles

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Jul 04, 2012

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• One thing that I feel very, very strongly is that we talk about Islamic countries, Islamic people, Islamic leaders, as either moderates or extremists. It's almost like there are only two categories of Muslims. And actually, that doesn't show respect. It shows lack of understanding of the diversity of Muslim thought.

  David Miliband

  Country, Two, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Simple, Discovery, Roots

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• I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Writing, Law, Want

  "Film: Taslima Nasreen- One Woman Against Islam". www.journeyman.tv.

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• There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.

  Ehud Olmert

  Country, Russia, Government

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• The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this construction today that the West and Islam are entirely separate worlds. This is wrong.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Philosophical, Doubt, Connections

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• Islamic law is clearly against terrorism, against any kind of deliberate killing of civilians or similar 'collateral damage.'

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Law, Damage, Kind

  "What's Right With Islam Is What's Right With America". Book by Feisal Abdul Rauf, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2004.

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