Islamic Quotes - Page 31

• The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Christian, Military, War

  "West must act to end jihad: Imam" by Frank Walker, www.smh.com.au. March 21, 2004.

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• Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Russia, Use, World

  Interview With Joseph Pearce, www.catholiceducation.org. February, 2003.

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• We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Faith, Government, Culture

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• Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.

  Cat Stevens

  Law, Abuse, Prophet

  "Yussuf Islam, Formerly Cat Stevens, Expresses Support For Rushdie Death Sentence". The Christian Science Monitor, 1989.

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• There are many resistance movements in the world, like the IRA for instance. But it is only Islamic resistance movements that are put on the terrorist list. This is what I am saying.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Ira, Movement, World

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• It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Military, Exaggeration Is, People

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• The Democratic Party supports criminals and Islamic terrorists but has no sympathy for taxpayers.

  Ann Coulter

  Party, Support, Criminals

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.112, Crown Forum

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• Enemies are somewhere else, as the fighting is almost always “over there,” with Islamic fundamentalism now replacing Russian and Chinese communism as the implacable, furtive menace. And “terrorist” is a more flexible word than “communist.” It can unify a larger number of quite different struggles and interests. What this may mean is that the war will be endless---since there will always be some terrorism.

  Susan Sontag

  War, Struggle, Mean

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.200, Macmillan

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• Cause if there's one thing Islamic terrorists don't have is....(seriously thinking about it)....%#@&!

  Jon Stewart

  Thinking, Causes, Terrorist

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• Infuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of the Islamic world - wrote reams of commentary [after 9/11]. Their articles were all about Islam saving Aristotle and the zero, which medieval Muslim scholars had done more than eight hundred years ago; about Islam being a religion of peace and tolerance, not the slightest bit violent. These were fairy tales, nothing to do with the real world I knew.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Zero, Real, Stupid

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• Freedom is a double-edged ideal, because true freedom comes without the protection of laws that also enslave us by defining us--female, male; Christian, Islamic; good, evil. All at the whim of a frail minority.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Christian, Law, Evil

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Mohammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god. That can be the historic future.

  Carl Jung

  Drunk, Germany, Way

  Carl Gustav Jung (1976). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Miscellaneous writings”

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• Not all Muslims become involved in acts of violence. Yet all might be held culpable. THis is because that section of Muslim--in fact, the majority--who are not personally involved, neither disown those members of their community who are engaged in violence, nor even condemn them. In such a case, according to the Islamic Shariah itself, if the involved Muslims are directly responsible, the uninvolved Muslims are also indirectly responsible. (p. 91)

  Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

  Community, Majority, Might

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• Change, development and progress, according to the Islamic viewpoint, refer to the return to the genuine Islam enunciated and practised by the Holy Prophet (may God bless and give him Peace!) and his noble Companions and their Followers (blessing and peace be upon them all!) and the faith and practice of genuine Muslims after them; and they also refer to the self and mean its return to its original nature and religion (Islam).

  Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

  Mean, Blessing, Holy Prophet

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• In the traditional Islamic world, the hierarchy of the arts was not based on whether they were "fine" or "industrial" or "minor". It was based upon the effect of art on the soul of the human being.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Art, Soul, World

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• It is for Muslim scholars to study the whole history of Islamic science completely and not only the chapters and periods which influenced Western science. It is also for Muslim scholars to present the tradition of Islamic science from the point of view of Islam itself and not from the point of view of the scientism, rationalism and positivism which have dominated the history of science in the West since the establishment of the discipline in the early part of the 20th century in Europe and America.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Views, Europe, America

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• "Both Christianity and Islam are logocentric," he told his students, "meaning they are focused on the Word. In Christian tradition, the Word became flesh in the book of John: 'And the Word was made flesh, and He dwelt among us. 'Therefore, it was acceptable to depict the Word as having a human form. In Islamic tradition, however, the Word did not become flesh, and therefore the Word needs to remain in the form of a word … in most cases, calligraphic renderings of the names of the holy figures of Islam."

  Dan Brown

  Christian, Book, Names

  "Inferno".

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• To allow the construction of places of worship other than Islamic ones in Saudi Arabia, it would be like asking the Vatican to build a mosque inside of it.

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

  Arabia, Would Be, Mosques

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• As professor of global peace studies at the International Islamic University of Malaysia I am committed to the ending of war also through criminalization of war, an approach that has not been sufficiently used in spite of the UN Charter outlawing war - with too many loopholes used buy aggressive countries.

  Johan Galtung

  Country, War, Study

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• Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Daughter, Dream

  Prophet (1923) "On Children"

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• Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Jesus, World, Christ

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• Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus. The Ariyans and some other sects had disturbed the tranquility of the east by agitating the question of the nature of the Father, the son, and the Holy Ghost. Muhammad declared that there was none but one God who had no father, no son and that the trinity imported the idea of idolatry.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Jesus, Father, Son

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• I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capability to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age... I have studied him - the wonderful man, and in my opinion far from being an Anti-Christ he must be called the Saviour of Humanity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Humanity, Age

  Interview (April 1935), as quoted in "The Genuine Islam", Vol. 1, January 1936.

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• Intention is the measure for rendering actions true, so that,
  where intention is sound, action is sound,
  and where it is corrupt, then action is corrupt

  Al-Nawawi

  Wisdom, Sound, Action

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• Do not fix hopes on your health, and do not laugh away life. Remember how they walked and now all their joints lie separately, and the tongue with which they talked lightly is eaten away by the worms

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Lying, Laughing

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