“Jordan recognizes that east Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state and Jordan rejects foreign sovereignty -- Israeli sovereignty -- over the holy sites” StatesHolyEastRejectionRejectsPalestinianSiteSovereigntyIsraeliJordanJerusalem Author:Yasser Arafat
“Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.” PeopleWarChristianFightingChristianityRecordsHolyEuropeRootsPrejudiceIslamWesternEastToleranceViolentCrusadesWestern EuropeHoly War Author:Karen Armstrong
“The blood of Abraham, God's father of the chosen, still flows in the veins of Arab, Jew, and Christian, and too much of it has been spilled in grasping for the inheritance of the revered patriarch in the Middle East. The spilled blood in the Holy Land still cries out to God--an anguished cry for peace.” Has BeensStillsChristianReligionFatherToo MuchBloodLandMiddleCryHolyFlowJewEastChosenMiddle EastVeinsInheritanceAbrahamGraspingHoly LandPatriarch Book:We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land Source: We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land
“I studiously avoided all so-called "holy men." I did so because I had to make do with my own truth, not accept from others what I could not attain on my own. I would have felt it as a theft had I attempted to learn from the holy men and to accept their truth for myself. Neither in Europe can I make any borrowings from the East, but must shape my life out of myself-out of what my inner being tells me, or what nature brings to me.” MenFeltMy OwnAcceptingHolyShapesEuropeEastAvoidedTheftBorrowingHoly Man Author:Carl Jung
“God looks at the Middle East, looks at Palestine. When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa.” LooksKindDoneLandMiddleHolySouthEastMiddle EastPalestinianSouth AfricaPalestineBeing DoneHoly LandCheckpoints Author:Desmond Tutu
“Many people are quick to say that we are not recognized by Muslims in the East . And I start with the Honorable Elijah Mohammed. In 1959, he went throughout the Holy City of Mecca to dine and wine with Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt and all of the black, mainly the rulers of the Islamic countries.” PeopleCountryBlackCitiesHolyWineEastIslamicRulersHonorableEgyptElijahMeccaDine Author:Muhammad Ali
“I was lucky enough as a kid to spend most of my weekends at the Fillmore East. On a great night, that was like a Holy Roller evangelical church.” EnoughKidsNightChurchHolyLuckyEastWeekendEvangelicalGreat Night Author:Paul Stanley
“And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhat far across, gloomy, crazy New York was throwing up its cloud of dust and brown steam. There is something brown and holy about the East; and California is white like washlines and emptyheaded - at least that's what I thought then.” WhiteCrazyNew YorkHolyCloudsEastDustCaliforniaBrownThrowingContinentsSteamGloomyThrowing Up Author:Jack Kerouac
“Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus. The Ariyans and some other sects had disturbed the tranquility of the east by agitating the question of the nature of the Father, the son, and the Holy Ghost. Muhammad declared that there was none but one God who had no father, no son and that the trinity imported the idea of idolatry.” IdeasFatherJesusCenturySonHolySixWorshipIslamEastGhostIslamicTranquilityMosesDisturbedMuhammadAbrahamHoly GhostIdolatryArabiaSectsTrinityIshmael Author:Napoleon Bonaparte