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Quotes About Islam

In my opinion, fundamentalist Christians are just as bad as fundamentalist Islam and, at the very core, neither religion is like that.
~ Edgar Mitchell
It's important to understand that violent Islam is only one face of violent religion.
~ Eliza Griswold
If the Koran is the soul of Islam, then perhaps the institution of the Muslim family might be described as its body.
~ Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Saying of the ProphetEnvyEnvy devours good deeds, as a fire devours fuel.
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
People call you extremist when you are spreading Islam but always remember that you are not..they are extremist because they are endangering there own life with there own hands.
~ Muhammad Mubbashir
Saying of the ProphetMonkishnessNo monkery in Islam.
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
Muslims may fall short of Islam but Islam will never fall short of Muslims.
~ Habeeb Akande
We are not at war with the Afghani people, and we are not at war with Islam, which most Americans respect as a religion of peace.
~ George W. Bush
We have the deepest respect and reverence for Islam and all who share the faith of Islam.
~ Jimmy Carter
Islam undoubtedly deserves respect. It has some things in common with Christianity, such as Abraham as a common progenitor, and the belief in only one God.
~ Walter Kasper
In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.
~ Youssou N'Dour
Islam is a peaceful religion.
~ Youssou N'Dour
The desired Islamic state might be likened to an orchard planted with olive and palm trees that will take a relatively long time to produce fruit.
~ Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
disagreement based on LEGITIMATE IJTIHAD which does not create DISCORD or DISUNITY is a BLESSING for the UMMAH and an enrichment of ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE. Objective disagreement in itself poses no threat if it is coupled with TOLERANCE and is free of FANATICISM, ACCUSATIONS, and NARROW-MINDEDNESS.
~ Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
Radical Islam is in a far worse position than socialism. It has not yet come to terms even with the Industrial Revolution
~ Yuval Noah Harari
monotheists practiced human sacrifice on a much larger scale than most polytheistic cults. Christianity and Islam have killed far more people in the name of God than did the followers of Ba'al or Huitzilopochtli.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Islamic fundamentalists may repeat the mantra that 'Islam is the answer', but religions that lose touch with the technological realities of the day forfeit their ability even to understand the questions being asked.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
If liberalism, nationalism, Islam, or some novel creed wishes to shape the world of the year 2050, it will need not only to make sense of artificial intelligence, Big Data algorithms, and bioengineering but also to incorporate them into a new and meaningful narrative.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Radical Islam poses no serious threat to the liberal package, because for all their fervour the zealots don't really understand the world of the twenty-first century, and have nothing relevant to say about the novel dangers and opportunities that new technologies are generating all around us.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
The best-known religions of history, such as Islam and Buddhism, are universal and missionary. Consequently
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Politicizing Islam means seeing it not as a collection of clearly definable values or "customs," but rather a contested terrain of lived practices and contingent interpretations. Making place for the secular, in particular, remains a significant challenge, especially given that much of the "Muslim world" is secular, albeit increasingly stifled by the Islamic revival.
~ Zahi Zalloua
Islam has no religious establishment -- no popes, no bishops -- that can declare by fiat which is the correct interpretation. As a result, the decision to oppose the state on the grounds that is insufficiently Islamic belongs to anyone who wishes to exercise it.
~ zakaria fareed
Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski
Look what love does...This was the real Islam, the Islam of love, not hate. Muhammad would be proud.
~ Deborah Rodriguez