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“Accusing somebody of racism is a very effective weapon in Germany. Islamists know this: As soon as you accuse someone of demonizing Islam, then the European side backs down.”

Knows Sides Weapons Racism Islam Germany Islamists Accusing

Author:Bassam Tibi

“The Jihad is not just a way of testing yourself but also means using violence to spread Islam.”

Way Mean Violence Islam Spread Testing Jihad Testing Yourself

Author:Bassam Tibi

“Pluralism and tolerance are pillars of modern society. That has to be accepted. But pluralism doesn't just mean diversity. It means that we share the same rules and values, and are still nevertheless different. Islam doesn't have this idea. And Islam also has no tradition of tolerance.”

Mean Stills Ideas Different Values Share Modern Diversity Tradition Islam Accepted Tolerance Nevertheless Pillars Modern Society Pluralism

Author:Bassam Tibi

“In Islam tolerance means that Christians and Jews are allowed to live under the protection of Muslims but never as citizens with the same rights. What Muslims call tolerance is nothing other than discrimination.”

Mean Christian Rights Citizens Islam Jew Protection Tolerance Discrimination

Author:Bassam Tibi

“The whole religion of Islam is based on reward and punishment and reward and punishment, and it becomes a part of how you think of everything. Even yourself.”

Thinking Whole Rewards Islam Punishment Reward And Punishment Religion Of Islam

Author:Kumail Nanjiani

“The Pope was more critical of Christianity than Islam during his visit (to Bavaria). He said on several occasions that the secular world influenced by Christianity must face the idea that it may not be as attractive as it once was. The leaders of other faiths might also be well-advised to admonish their own now and then and not always direct their criticism at others.”

World Wells May Said Ideas Might Faces Leader Christianity Direct Criticism Islam Critical Occasions Attractive Now And Then Secular Pope Admonish

Author:Wolfgang Schauble

“I don't want to change Islam, but if there is to be a European Islam, it must incorporate European values.”

Ifs Want Values Islam

Author:Wolfgang Schauble

“During the centuries-long process of Reformation and Enlightenment, Christian churches had to accept some things they didn't like. Islam will have to do the same; otherwise it isn't part of Europe.”

Long Christian Process Church Accepting Century Enlightenment Europe Islam Reformation Christian Church

Author:Wolfgang Schauble

“When it comes to training imams, one needs a partner. But if we want the mosques to preach peaceful coexistence, we will have to do something about it. One goal of the conference is to find a partner for the training of imams and teachers of Islam in schools.”

Ifs Want Needs School Goal Teacher Training Islam Partners Peaceful Conferences Mosques Coexistence Peaceful Coexistence

Author:Wolfgang Schauble

“Religion teachers for Islam instruction are being trained now in Münster and Erlangen. This has to happen quickly. My goal is to achieve relevant results within two years.”

Years Two Happens Goal Results Teacher Achieve Islam Two Years Relevant Instruction

Author:Wolfgang Schauble

“The conflict with Islam has, after all, existed throughout European history.”

Conflict Islam European History

Author:Walter Kasper

“There is no such thing as one Islam. The Koran is ambiguous and Islam is not a monolithic entity.”

Islam Entity Ambiguous

Author:Walter Kasper

“The distinction between radical Islam and moderate Muslims is important, as are the differences between Sunnis and Shiites, and between militant and mystical Islam.”

Important Differences Islam Radical Distinction Mystical Moderates Militant Radical Islam

Author:Walter Kasper

“Islam in the Arab world coexists with Indonesian, Pakistani and Turkish Islam. There is limited solidarity, even within the Arab world.”

World Islam Solidarity Turkish Coexist Arab World

Author:Walter Kasper

“Islam undoubtedly deserves respect. It has some things in common with Christianity, such as Abraham as a common progenitor, and the belief in only one God.”

Belief Common Christianity Deserve Islam Abraham

Author:Walter Kasper

“Islam developed in opposition to orthodox Christianity from the very start, and it considers itself superior to Christianity. So far, it has only been tolerant in places where it is in the minority.”

Christianity Islam Superiors Opposition Minorities Orthodox Orthodox Christianity

Author:Walter Kasper

“Where it is the majority religion, Islam does not recognize religious freedom, at least not as we understand it. Islam is a different culture. This doesn't mean that it's an inferior culture, but it is a culture that has yet to connect with the positive sides of our modern Western culture: religious freedom, human rights and equal rights for women.”

Humans Mean Doe Different Culture Sides Religious Rights Modern Equal Majority Islam Western Human Rights Inferiors Equal Rights Religious Freedom Different Cultures Western Culture

Author:Walter Kasper

“Suicide attacks are the actions of losers who have nothing left to lose. In this case, Islam serves as a mask, a cover for desperation and nihilism, but not for religion.”

Action Left Loses Cases Suicide Islam Mask Loser Desperation Nihilism

Author:Walter Kasper

“One unanswered question is whether a Euro-Islam that combines Islam with democracy will be possible in the future. We mustn't confuse desire with reality.”

Reality Desire Democracy Islam Euro Unanswered Questions Unanswered

Author:Walter Kasper

“The distinction between the religious and secular orders is a fundamental aspect of Christianity. This distinction is an innovation compared to Islam and Judaism, and it is an advantage that has helped shape Europe.”

Order Religious Christianity Shapes Europe Advantage Aspect Innovation Fundamentals Islam Distinction Secular Judaism

Author:Walter Kasper

“Today we're seeing fundamental conflicts within political Islam, with the fundamentalists on the one side and the moderates on the other. Who gains the upper hand means a great deal to the world.”

World Mean Hands Today Political Sides Deals Seeing Conflict Gains Fundamentals Islam Moderates Upper Hand

Author:Zalmay Khalilzad

“Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.”

World Firsts Important Hands Spiritual Path Teacher Buddhism Enlightenment Islam Spiritual Teachers First Hand Experience

Author:Bell Hooks

“Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of war, and most Muslims don't understand the true nature of Islam.”

War Islam True Nature

Author:Mosab Hassan Yousef

“Traditional Muslims stand at the foot of the ladder, living in guilt for not really practicing Islam. At the top are fundamentalists, the ones you see in the news killing women and children for the glory of the god of the Qur'an. Moderates are somewhere in between. A moderate Muslim is actually more dangerous than a fundamentalist, however, because he appears to be harmless, and you can never tell when he has taken that next step toward the top. Most suicide bombers began as moderates.”

Children Next Steps Taken Feet Dangerous News Glory Suicide Guilt Islam Killing Traditional Ladders Moderates Fundamentalist Next Steps Bombers Suicide Bombers

Author:Mosab Hassan Yousef

“We need to educate people about the reality of Islam, the logics of Islam. I am sure every free man in this world would fight the ideology of Islam.”

People Men World Needs Reality Fighting This World Logic Islam Ideology Educate Free Man

Author:Mosab Hassan Yousef

“I know people who support Hamas but they never got involved in terrorist attacks, for example... They follow Hamas because they love God and they think that Hamas represents God. They don't have knowledge, they don't know the real God and they never studied Christianity. But Hamas, as representative for Islam, it's a big problem.”

People Thinking Knows Real Problem Bigs Christianity Support Example Involved Islam Terrorist God Love Representatives Big Problems Terrorist Attacks Hamas

Author:Mosab Hassan Yousef

“Hamas murders not only Israelis, but also Palestinians whose political stance is different from that which its group promotes; that is, its radical religious outlook in which Islam is the solution to the world's problems.”

World Different Problem Political Religious Groups Solutions Murder Islam Radical Palestinian Outlook Stance Hamas Radical Islam

Author:Mosab Hassan Yousef

“Islam doesn't need reform, we need to reform the Muslim mind.”

Needs Mind Islam Reform

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“I found it really disturbing to see a novelist writing a diatribe about Islam and Muslim radical extremists, blurring the distinction between the two.”

Writing Two Found Islam Radical Novelists Distinction Disturbing Extremist

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“In Great Britain, an author published a book in which he claimed that Jesus Christ had children. Such statements don't trigger civil unrest and bloodshed in Europe. But write similar statements about Islam in Syria and you might see bloody uprisings.”

Writing Children Book Might Jesus Christ Jesus Christ Europe Islam Statements Britain Bloody Syria Triggers Great Britain Uprising Bloodshed Unrest

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“I have to admit that I'm kind of afraid of Islam.”

Kind Islam

Author:Edgar Hilsenrath

“The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.”

Want Age Middle Achieve Dangerous Return Elements Islam Radical Purity Islamic Middle Ages

Author:Brent Scowcroft

“First of all, in many Muslim countries women have incredible amounts of freedom, sometimes more than in some countries in Europe. So you cannot just make a generalized statement about women. Second, Islam is not the problem. It's tradition. It's culture. It's age-old mind-sets that need to be changed.”

Needs Mind Firsts Country Sometimes Problem Age Culture Changed Amount Europe Tradition Islam Incredibles Statements Mind Set

Author:Queen Rania of Jordan

“Extremism and Islam are completely different things, we strongly demand the immediate release of the Japanese citizens unharmed ... The international community needs to respond firmly and cooperate without caving into terrorism.”

Needs Different Community Citizens Demand Islam International Terrorism Release Different Things Extremism International Community

Author:Shinzo Abe

“We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Muhammad.”

Knows Way Found Islam Muhammad Memories Dreams Reflections

Book:The Collected Works: The symbolic life. Miscellaneous writings

Source: The Collected Works: The symbolic life. Miscellaneous writings

“The evil lot who did that thing on September 11 did it because they wanted to create a war between America and Islam. And by invading Iraq, we gave them what they hoped for.”

War Wanted America Evil Islam Iraq September September 11 Invading Invading Iraq

Author:Billy Bragg

“Al Qaeda, the Taliban, a whole host of networks that are bent on attacking America, who have a distorted ideology, who have perverted the faith of Islam, and so we have to go after them.”

Whole America Islam Ideology Als Host Bent Attacking Al Qaeda Taliban

Author:Barack Obama

“I as a Muslim believe deeply in the differences that are within Islam. But I also take seriously the idea that we have to come to know one another.”

Knows Believe Ideas Differences Islam

Author:Eboo Patel

“I have learned so much more about Islam in conversation with Jews and Christians and Hindus. I feel like that is part of the beauty of life on Earth - that we discover and develop what it means to be Muslim or Christian or Jewish not in isolation from others, but precisely in relationship with others.”

Feels Mean Earth Christian Conversation Islam Jew Isolation I Have Learned Beauty Of Life Relationships With Others

Author:Eboo Patel

“What's happened in the United States is something that has already happened in Europe and that is that Islam is become 'otherised', it has become a kind of receptacle into which fears and anxieties about the political or economic situation, about the changing racial landscape of this country are being thrown.”

Kind Country States Political United Situation United States Happened Economic Anxiety Europe Islam Landscape Thrown

Author:Reza Aslan

“Islam is more than a religion, it's much more than a religion, it's a way of life, it is a one party political system that has a very elaborate legal system that can put you to death if you leave it.”

Ifs Way Political Party Islam Political Systems Legal System

Author:Reza Aslan

“When I was in the US, I felt that the discourse there surrounding Muslims as the other, problematising Muslims and Islam as the other was very similar to what we find in Australia, which is that the image of Islam is a constructed image in the West. We are starting from a point of view that Islam and Muslims - well Islam is a violent, misogynistic, hateful religion and that is where the debate always starts from - that presumption underlies the discourse.”

Wells Felt Views West Islam Starting Point Of View Debate Violent Australia Discourse Hateful Presumption

Author:Reza Aslan

“The religiously observant is lumped in with the nominal Muslim, the nominal Muslim is lumped in with the non-Muslim and the radical. If we want to make sense of this mess and stop pushing Muslims into the arms of the extremist, we need to make meaningful distinctions between the religion of Islam that a billion Muslims follow and see as a guidance as a peaceful righteous moral life and the puritanical Islam of a minority which so captures the media's attention.”

“The issue is, the Arabs have many allies. Among the worst reactionaries in the world. No religion out of which so much murder comes as there is in certain parts of Islam.”

World Certain Issues Worst Murder Islam Allies Reactionaries

Author:Manfred Gerstenfeld

“Arabs and their allies are conducting a total war against Israel. A total war means a war of lies. The PA [Palestinian Authority] promotes lies; lying in Islam is permitted.”

Mean War Lying Authority Islam Israel Allies Palestinian Total War Conducting

Author:Manfred Gerstenfeld

“When someone comes under abuse or attack a characteristic response is to blame yourself, especially if you are locked into a relationship of being attacked regularly, and making apologies for your abuser. It actually affects Christians living in Islamic circumstances more, and one Palestinian Christian spoke about that problem of needing to defend Islam in order to protect yourself.”

Ifs Problem Christian Order Circumstances Protect Abuse Blame Response Islam Characteristics Islamic Spokes Apology Locked Palestinian Abusers Protect Yourself

Author:Mark Durie

“Some people in the west have responded to the terrorist attacks by trying to look for everything that is positive in Islam. I think that was a strong response after 9/11, was to try to reach out as positively as possible.”

People Thinking Trying Looks Strong West Response Islam Terrorist Reach Out Positively Terrorist Attacks

Author:Mark Durie

“There are some disturbing messages in the Koran, there were declarations of war against non-believers, there's a declaration that Islam should be triumphant over other religions, the problem is this is not just in the book, but preached throughout the Islamic world that are preached, we in the West hear about that.”

World Should Book War Problem Messages West Islam Believer Islamic Declaration Disturbing Triumphant Non Believer Declaration Of War

Author:Mark Durie

“Sharia law is a Malignant law, it's totally based on the interpretation of the Koran and the Hajid, and the way Islam and the profit lived.”

Way Law Islam Profit Interpretation Sharia Sharia Law

Author:Mark Durie

“Sharia is the most oppressive system on earth. It encourages people to lie, if it's for the benefits of Islam. It doesn't allow Muslims to leave Islam, and there's a death penalty in all the schools of Sharia against those that leave Islam. Sharia defines what jihad is.”

People Ifs School Earth Lying Benefits Islam Penalties Death Penalty Jihad Sharia

Author:Mark Durie

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