Quotes About Islam

3) Modern industrial societies provide extensive opportunities for technical training, as medieval Islam did and modern Zaire does not.

In the Middle Ages the flow of technology was overwhelmingly from Islam to Europe, rather than from Europe to Islam as it is today. Only after around A.D. 1500 did the net direction of flow begin to reverse.

In the Koran, the first thing God said to Muhammed was 'Read.

The fact to the matter is, we never developed a comprehensive strategy to deal with radical Islam. And the 9/11 commission said one of the things we must do is develop a global alliance to combat it.

Islam, for example, like so many other faiths, stresses the importance of mutual solidarity with our fellow man.

The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam.

Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community.

I do understand that America is a predominantly Christian country. A lot of morals and values are based in Christianity as opposed to Buddhism, which it's not, or Judaism, which it's not, or Islam, which it's definitely not. So I'm not going to lie to myself and just be like, 'Well you know, everybody's equal.' Because we're not.

As a result of that, America desires a moderate Islam; an Islam that America can control; an Islam that America can give direction to and give orders to its leaders.

I have a lot of respect for aspects of Islam, but I would not choose to live in a theocratically organised Muslim society.

In my opinion, Islam is an outdated religion. It's not modern. And therefore, there's too much space for violence.

In the Arab world, at any rate, to doubt the traditional account of Islam's origins has been to risk death threats, prosecution for apostasy, or even defenestration.61

Dar al Islam and the Dar al Harb, the House of Submission and the House of War.

We now find ourselves facing the Christian West's oldest and most steadfast opponent, Islam.

The local Cairo clergy offered to issue a fatwa recognizing Napoleon as the legitimate ruler of Egypt—provided the entire French army formally convert to Islam. Napoleon actually considered the offer, but when it became clear that the muftis' demand included mass adult circumcision and total abstinence from wine, the conversion plan was scrapped.

There could be nothing, he reflected, to equal a government which was simply the honest enforcement, by means of the sword, of the laws of Islam.

There has never been a riper time for extreme Islam to perish.

Virtually every predominantly Muslim country is either "not free" or "partly free"—with exceptions being Mali and Senegal. Despite the frequently cited Qur'anic passage that says there is "no compulsion in religion

and I began to think that the strictures of Islam would quickly make me a fancier of the margins of anatomy, thrilling at especially trim ankles, seeking a wink behind a veil, or watching for a response in the shoulders of one of those shrouded forms.

Muslims have a very bad attitude to homosexuality, they're very intolerant.

Qutb argued that the modern world had fallen back into the period of pre-Islamic ignorance and barbarism that had existed prior to the Prophet. Secular Muslims, or even Muslims who did not abide by strict sanctions, were subject to takfir, excommunication, and thus were fair game to be killed.

Education about Yemen will come through customers' engagement with the product. And in the meantime you'll employ actual Yemeni people. And you'll do something tangible. And you'll make a living. And you won't have to ask for donations. And it won't have to be about Islam. You're not selling Islamic coffee beans. Sell Yemeni beans. Do that, and do it well, and the rest will follow.

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities – but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.

The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property—either as a child, a wife, or a concubine—must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.