Islamists Quotes

• The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam

  Barack Obama

  Mind Blowing, Islam, Hussein

  "Obama U.N. Speech: A New Religion Doctrine" by Lauren Markoe, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2012.

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• Young people in particular need real options to find a decent job and to lift their lives. I'm not sure the new Islamist governments will be the best to promote prosperity and growth.

  Jose Maria Aznar

  Jobs, Real, Government

  "Spain's Former Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar on the Arab Awakening and How the West Should React" by Jose Maria Aznar, www.cnbc.com. December 08, 2011.

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• Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Tolerance, Mind Blowing

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.

  Barack Obama

  Prayer, Mind Blowing, Islam

  "Politically Incorrect Reflections on Obama at the Mosque" by Arnold Steinberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2016.

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• Islam came to teach us that there is no faith without intelligence and here we are: destroying our intelligence in the name of faith.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Names, Islam, Destroying

  Twitter post from Jan 22, 2014

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• Islam has always been part of America

  Barack Obama

  America, Mind Blowing, Islam

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world - including in my own country.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Appreciation, Islamic

  President Obama's remarks to the Turkish Parliament, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 6, 2009.

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• As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.

  Barack Obama

  Civilization, Mind Blowing, Islam

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• I am the Counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

  Dennis A. Ross

  East, Sanctions, Chemical Weapons

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• I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Fighting, Mind Blowing

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot. Unless these unfortunates can be touched with the spark which ignites the spirit of individual enterprise and determination, they will only sink back into renewed apathy, degradation and despair. It is for us, who are more fortunate, to provide that spark.

  Aga Khan IV

  Determination, Motivation, Mean

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• Well, human rights defenders, freedom of speech advocates, lawyers that we spoke to said this is really an expansion. After the military ouster of Egypt's unpopular, but elected Islamist president in 2013, we saw political opponents being arrested by the thousands, really. Then we saw a popular comedian go off the air out of fear of retribution.

  Leila Fadel

  Military, Rights, Air

  "Egypt Expands Crackdown On Freedom Of Expression, Advocates Say". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 30, 2015.

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• The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way.

  Newt Gingrich

  Islam, Way, Serious

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• What's important to do is we must deal frontally with this threat of radical Islamists, especially from ISIS. This is the most sophisticated terror group that has ever threatened the world or the United States of America.

  Marco Rubio

  Isis, America, Important

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• The underlying reason for this is the Europeans' fear that Islamists could gain power. Many still consider authoritarian Arab regimes to be the lesser evil.

  Alvaro de Vasconcelos

  Evil, Gains, Reason

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We often hear Islamists declare, 'We love death as much as you people in the west love life.' Well, if we're going to now celebrate and jubilate in the death of Bin Laden, I have to say, I think that comes eerily close to mimicking the likes of the Islamists. And that gives me the creeps.

  Irshad Manji

  Love Life, Thinking, Giving

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• No one is as murderously 'Islamophobic' as Islamists are.

  Nick Cohen

  "The secret scandal of Britain's caste system" by Nick Cohen, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2011.

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• Antisemitism is unique among religious hatreds. It is a racist conspiracy theory fashioned for the needs of messianic and brutal rulers, as dictators from the Tsars to the Islamists via the Nazis have shown. Many other alleged religious 'hatreds' are not hatreds in the true sense. If I criticise Islamic, Orthodox Jewish or Catholic attitudes towards women, for instance, and I'm accused of being a bigot, I shrug and say it is not bigoted to oppose bigotry.

  Nick Cohen

  Religious, Attitude, Islamic

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• Saddam Hussein was not an Islamist. He's not a radical jihadist. He's not a radical Muslim. I mean, he was a - he was a Baathist. He was a secular - even though he professed to be a good and devout Muslim.

  Rick Santorum

  Mean, Hussein, Radical

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• Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Years, Islam, Doe

  Samuel P. Huntington (1997). “The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order”, p.209, Penguin Books India

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• Today I want to puke when I hear the word 'radical' applied so slothfully and stupidly to Islamist murderers; the most plainly reactionary people in the world.

  Christopher Hitchens

  People, World, Want

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.167, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Morning, Sunday, Thinking

  Interview with Colin Powell, www.theatlantic.com. September, 2004.

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• The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.

  John Cornyn

  Long, Enemy, Islam

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• The key to tackling Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism from the Islamist community is in the hands of moderate Muslims.

  Gijs de Vries

  Keys, Hands, Community

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• I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time [his grandchildren are] my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.

  Newt Gingrich

  Country, Atheist, Crazy

  "Newt talks faith at Texas church" by Kendra Marr, www.politico.com. March 27, 2011.

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