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Quotes About Muslims

We never learnt the right lessons. We never went to the root of the problem. Once you start politicising religion, you play with fire and get burnt as well. Another lesson we did not learn is that Muslims are not homogenous.
~ Asma Jahangir
One example that has hurt me is that of Aung San Suu Kyi. I admire her a lot, but her unwillingness to protect the Rohingiya Muslims shows how intolerance has seeped into politics and the level at which it has seeped. It immobilises politicians.
~ Asma Jahangir
This ISIS group, they attack Muslims more than they attack anyone else.
~ Mona Eltahawy
India's Muslims know that India is the only country in the world where Islam's all 72 sects are found. No other nation, not even Muslim countries, have all the 72 sects of Islam.
~ Rajnath Singh
Most Americans do really think that Muslims all want to take over and they don't want democracy and they want nothing but Islamic law.
~ Martha Nussbaum
Islamist groups have gained influence at local and national level by playing the politics of identity and demanding for Muslims the 'right to be different.'
~ Munira Mirza
The government should stop emphasizing difference and engage with Muslims as citizens, not through their religious identity.
~ Munira Mirza
Asking Muslims to stay away from social media is downright absurd.
~ Shamna Kasim
The position that Indian Muslims have is unique because we exist in a democracy, which is something that cannot be said about many Muslims living in the world.
~ Shabana Azmi
I have done more for Muslims than Mulayam Singh Yadav has.
~ Mayawati
There's a general ignorance about how Muslims live and what Muslims believe.
~ Mehdi Hasan
American policymaking in the Islamic world must begin with a foundation of respect for Muslims, especially when they tell us about their faith.
~ Ben Domenech
I think that Muslims are criticised all around the world.
~ Martha Nussbaum
Growing up, I didn't see that many Muslims on TV and we don't see many now. But essentially I am a mother and that's the job I know best.
~ Nadiya Hussain
We don't hate Muslims, but they have to integrate.
~ Geert Wilders
Government policies to improve engagement with Muslims make things worse.
~ Munira Mirza
Wouldn't it have been better for Muslims to trust less to the saving faith and to sit down hard-headedly to work out institutions? Wasn't that an essential part of the history of civilization, after all: the conversion of ethical ideals into institutions?
~ V.S. Naipaul
It astonished me that Muslims, who put such store on emulation of their prophet, didn't wish to emulate him in something so fundamental as fathering daughters. Muhammad
~ Geraldine Brooks
I started with Arabic, the language of the Koran. Only one in five Muslims is an Arab; yet Arabic is the language in which the world's more than one billion Muslims—a fifth of the world's population—talk to God.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact.
~ Gijs de Vries
Miracles only occur when sanctity is acknowledged. We Muslims believe in the Lord Jesus. He may not be Allah, but he was surely a very pure person. We honor him in our thoughts and our prayers." "Certainly Sultan Malik recognized the mystery of his presence," I replied. "I know for a fact that he and Saint Francis of Assisi deeply respected one another, both acknowledging the power of their mutual faith.
~ James Cowan
Comments that suggest that Muslims should be banned from the United States are offensive and unconstitutional.
~ Mike Pence
There has been a failure to grasp how competing narratives fight for the attention of angry young Muslims, and we have grossly underestimated the appeal of the jihadist brand.
~ Maajid Nawaz
We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
~ Abdullah Ahmad Badawi