Quotes About Diversity

What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.

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.

I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.

I'm a Christian. But Muslims are misunderstood. Intentionally misunderstood. We should all be more like them.

The Muslims in the Cape are associated with having a very good sense of humor.

On 'Black Hawk Down,' I was employing 1,000 Muslims. 'Kingdom of Heaven,' same deal except bigger, probably 1,500 Muslims.

For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.

I'm always criticised by other Somalis and Muslims for what I'm doing as a model and married to a white man and all that.

Most people know Muslims in their community but don't realize it.

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

There are many Muslims of good will and despise this extremism as much as anyone of any other faith.

When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.

I would rather live as a Muslim in the West than in most of the Muslim countries, because I think the way Muslims are allowed to live in the West is closer to the Muslim way.

We in Canada are not going to say Muslims are worse than Christians or are worse than Jews or are worse than atheists.

Our culture is a very diverse one, and I think now it is incredibly dangerous and very wrong to persecute Muslims and say there is something wrong with being a Muslim.

We want to counter the idea that Muslims and non-Muslims can't live together. This is not who we are or who we want to be.

In a sense, by closing off the idea that young Muslims, and particularly young Muslim men, can be American heroes, it increases the chance that they'll try to be some other kind of hero. And that, I think, is entirely counterproductive.

Nobody has the right - even a Muslim - to talk for all Muslims.

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.

We are not going to be keeping a registry of Muslims in America, we are not going to be deporting Muslims, we are not going to be barring people from coming into our country because of their religion.

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.

I don't want to protect my characters. I don't do it with Muslims, either. My job is not to make us look perfect. My job is to make us look messy.