Muslim Community Quotes

• we will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities

  Barack Obama

  Community, Mind Blowing, Islam

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

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• And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.

  Peter King

  Leadership, Zero, Moving

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• If the Muslim community in Michigan comes out strongly, I think they will make a difference.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Thinking, Differences, Community

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn't, we will kill you.

  Sam Harris

  Community, Islam, Faces

  "Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 05, 2008.

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• I want to send a message that we value our Muslim communities.

  Keir Starmer

  Community, Want, Messages

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The practical reality that in order for us to identify homegrown violent extremism and prevent it or root it out before it takes action, we are going to need the cooperation of Muslim communities in this country.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Reality, Order

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Community, Leader, Kingdoms

  "The iPod and the Queen, the Kindle and the King" by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2009.

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• We don't have to give up trying to convert each other. What we have to do is show respect to one another. And to speak to each other with a sense that even if people don't convert, they are God's people, God loves them, and we do not make the judgment of who is going to heaven and who is going to hell. I think that what we all have to do is leave judgment up to God. The Muslim community is very evangelistic, however what Muslims will not do is condemn Jews and Christians to Hell if in fact they do not accept Islam.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Giving Up, Thinking

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• We who don't want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would happen if Christians, feminists and Enlightenment thinkers were to start proselytizing in the Muslim community.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Christian, Feminist, Community

  "The Feminist". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. May 21, 2010.

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• If we are true small 'l' liberals, it's our job to seek out feminist Muslims, ex-Muslims, liberal Muslims, dissenting voices within Muslim communities, gay Muslims - we should promote those voices and in doing so, we demonstrate Islam is not a monolith, Muslims are not homogenous, and that Muslims are truly internally diverse.

  Maajid Nawaz

  Jobs, Gay, Voice

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The Muslim community should not be treated as a problematic community, but treated as a community that is willing to play its role in the mainstream.

  Iqbal Sacranie

  Communication, Play, Community

  "Blair confronts 'evil ideology'". www.cnn.com. July 20, 2005.

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• I have written on numerous occasions that there is no distinction in the American Muslim community between peaceful Muslims and jihadists. While Americans prefer to imagine that the vast majority of American Muslims are civic-minded patriots who accept wholeheartedly the parameters of American pluralism, this proposition has actually never been proven.

  Robert Spencer

  Community, Peaceful, Majority

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• In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.

  Barack Obama

  Community, Innovation, Mind Blowing

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

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• The fact is the enemy right now is within the Muslim community. A small percentage but it`s there.

  Donald Trump

  Community, Enemy, Facts

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think what speaks loudest and what speaks to your point is the blood that's spilling from Australia, to now California. I mean, how much blood has to be spilled until we recognize inside of a Muslim community that with do have an ideological problem?

  Dalia Mogahed

  Mean, Thinking, Blood

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• We only have one penal code in the United States, and it applies in every single state, every city, no matter who is there. This is part of the fear mongering, that has gripped the United States, the notion that we need to pass a law forbidding the institution of a foreign Law in the United States when it is forbidden by the constitutions is yet another example of targeting Muslim communities because they are seen as different, or exceptional in other ways.

  Mark Durie

  Fear Mongering, Law, Cities

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Emergence of Muslim communities in their own lands. They let in millions of people from a radically different culture and background. The Europeans have to ask themselves if all these people can be integrated. This has led to major problems. And...I do not stereotype all Muslims.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  Land, People, Community

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• It's been our experience that any time a Muslim community anywhere seeks to expand or establish a mosque or some other kind of institution, there will be some type of opposition, when you scratch the surface, often there is a tremendous level of bigotry and stereotyping in the opposition.

  Ibrahim Hooper

  Community, Scratches, Mosques

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• The incubator for terrorism, after the Middle East, is Europe, partly because of proximity, partly because of the existence of large Muslim communities there.

  Sidney Blumenthal

  Europe, Community, Middle East

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If [Donald ] Trump goes after - if Trump fails, frankly, to stand up right now for the Muslim community - right now, Muslims are being bullied. Women wearing hijabs are being bullied and people are saying, "Trump, Trump!" when they're doing it.

  Van Jones

  People, Community, Hijab

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• They [American Muslim community] need to have close working cooperation with law enforcement in these communities, not be alienated and pushed away as some of Donald's [Trump] rhetoric, unfortunately, has led to.

  Hillary Clinton

  Law, Community, Needs

  Source: time.com

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• Donald Trump has consistently insulted Muslims abroad, Muslims at home, when we need to be cooperating with Muslim nations and with the American Muslim community.

  Hillary Clinton

  Home, Community, Needs

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.

  Otto Schily

  Paris, Community, Members

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• I’m a Muslim, we come from a Muslim community and we are very critical of western or American foreign policy. So if I’ve got the right and if other Muslims have got the right to criticize… likewise everyone else has also got the right to criticize everything else.

  Maajid Nawaz

  Community, Foreign Policy, Criticize

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• If the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris had nothing to do with Islam as President Francois Hollande suggested, why did he invite Muslim community leaders to meet him the day after the tragedy?

  Amir Taheri

  Charlie Hebdo, Paris, Community

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