Quotes About Religion

My family is Muslim. But I don't consider myself a very devout Muslim, but a cultural Muslim, whatever that means.

If this war makes anything clear, it is that Israel can do nothing to appease the Muslim animus against her.

I am from Scotland, and I am Christian, not Muslim.

I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.

We certainly love the Muslim people. But that is not the faith of this country. And that is not the religion that built this nation. The people of the Christian faith and the Jewish faith are the ones who built America, and it is not Islam.

I was a Muslim once, remember, and it was when I was most devout that I was most full of hate.

Chechens are Muslim, and some share the belief that the West is engaged in a global campaign against Islam.

My grandmother was a Muslim. My mother is Christian. And I don't know what I am, but I believe in God.

I don't care if you're Muslim or Christian or Buddhist or whatever your religion is, when you listen to a spiritual song and you really open your heart, you can feel it. You can feel the message of it. Just a simple story.

I don't think it's a good thing to have Christian states, Muslim states, or any kind of ethnic states.

Muslims must speak out and explain who they are, what they believe in, what they stand for, what is the meaning of their life. They must have the courage to denounce what is said and done by certain Muslims in the name of their religion.

There are some who believe that secularism and Islam are not compatible. But Muslims should show everyone that this is not the case. It's up to them to show that you can be French and Muslim and still respect secular rules.

Of course there are peace-loving Muslims.

I believe the Islamic ideology is a retarded, dangerous one, but I make a distinction. I don't hate people. I don't hate Muslims.

There are a lot of Arabs that are not Muslims. They are Christians; they are Jews. Muslim Arabs, especially in my family, are just so ecstatic that I get to play Jesus. They're so proud.

I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims.

It's not that we have two different kinds of Islam. I acknowledge the fact that we have two kinds of people. There are moderate Muslims and non-moderate Muslims. But there is really only one Islam, and this is the Islam of the life of Muhammad, of the Quran, of the Hadiths, of the Sunnah.

And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.

I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people.

Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, perhaps only 300 million actually understand the language of the Koran.

My father and mother are Muslims. But from the moment I started talking, I decided I was a Christian. They let me.

The question is, why do we have Muslims in the country?

I can't talk about Christianity if I don't know it. You can't talk about Muslims or Islam if you don't know it.

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.