Quotes About Diversity

You can be a Christian. You can be Jew. You can be a Muslim. You can be atheist. This is your own choice. But the law, the constitution, the law of the people is above God's law. So when somebody arrives in Europe, people need to accept those rules.

I love my heritage both as someone who grew up as a Muslim and as an Indian - it's part of who I am and I would never deny it.

I am a Muslim, but my favourite festival is Holi, so that is how it is.

When my cousin sister got married to a Muslim boy, my family was baffled. All the brothers had abandoned her. But I said there is nothing wrong in it. We have not lost our sister. In fact, we got another family member in the form of that boy.

If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.

I cannot discriminate on the basis of Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian.

I really like the idea of modesty. By the time I got into music, I was already wearing the scarf all the time, and it's really personal to me, my Muslim beliefs, so I decided to keep it and find a way to work around it. I don't see it as a restriction or limitation - I can still be me and get into music and be an entertainer.

We are a multicultural family. My mother is Hindu, my father Muslim. We celebrate every festival, be it Diwali or Eid.

I think the way I am, the way I'm chilled out, has a lot to do with being Muslim and having faith.

If there can be Muslim and Christian countries, why can't there be a Hindu country?

My mom's actually a Buddhist. My dad's a Christian and he was a Muslim, but he converted to Christianity.

I am Shia Muslim.

If you want a show to talk about politics or the Muslim ban or whatever - someone should make that show. That's not what I'm interested in.

I want to show people there's not just one way of being Muslim.

People see me as Andre first. Then they see me as someone who happens to be a Muslim.

I would like to find a way in which people in Saudi Arabia could learn that they can be something other than a Muslim. Some people may not realize this. Of course, there is the problem that you can get in trouble or get stoned.

I don't believe in differentiating between Hindu, Muslim, Sikh or Christian - we are all one, and Mumbai is for everyone.

Not every Muslim is out to get us.

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

I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.

I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.

I've realized that it's important to stop trying to think I'm any one thing. People are confused as to their identity and try to cling to one aspect of that identity to describe what they are: American, Republican, Muslim. These are really incomplete.

Americans have almost been conditioned to believe that the majority of people who seek to do us harm are those of Muslim descent.

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.