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“Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It's about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other.”

“Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.”

World Government Political Ultimate Aim Islam Violent Bent Domination Political Systems World Domination

Author:Pat Robertson

“Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.”

Ifs Writing Done Wanted Fiction Novel Trade Islam Sentences Insult

Author:Salman Rushdie

“If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which their countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.”

Ifs World Country Dream Principles Modern Islam Terrorism Boards Humanist Defeated

Book:Step Across This Line

Source: Step Across This Line

“In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.”

Ifs Trying Steps Happened Islam China Our Time Iran Authoritarianism

Author:Salman Rushdie

“In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.”

Views Happened Tradition Absolutes Originals Islam Prophet Cult Messengers

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.”

World Growing Projects Blame Islam Versions Remedy Outsiders Rivals Closing Modernity Paranoid Infidel

Book:Step Across This Line

Source: Step Across This Line

“When I was writing The Satanic Verses, if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures.”

Believe Islam Scripture Prophet Als Quran Confirmation

Author:Annie Besant

“It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message.”

World Mean Spirit Duty Messages Islam Spread Followers Civilised

Author:Annie Besant

“Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you will find that women have often taken leading places - on the throne, in the battle-field, in politics, in literature, poetry, etc.”

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Author:Annie Besant

“I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the faith which preaches monogamy. In AI Quran the law about woman is juster and more liberal.”

Thinking Law Christianity Islam Protected Quran Monogamy

Author:Annie Besant

“Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.”

Literature Creativity Islam Scholar

Author:Basmah bint Saud

“Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.”

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Author:Jello Biafra

“I write as someone who has no more time for repressive Islam than he does for repressive Christianity or Judaism, but at least look at the face in the hijab - and try to imagine the one beneath the niqab - before you depersonalise its wearer.”

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Author:Will Self

“I like to read about different religions - Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism.”

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Author:Wesley Snipes

“Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.”

Difficult Religious Identity Tasks Islam Equilibrium Difficult Tasks

Author:Abdolkarim Soroush

“I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful.”

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Author:Cat Stevens

“In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.”

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Author:Cat Stevens

“Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam.”

Should School Faith Bits Islam Moderation Fanaticism Fostering

Author:Cat Stevens

“I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom.”

United Issues Media Islam Separation Kingdoms Division Confronting United Kingdom Portrayal

Author:Cat Stevens

“In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.”

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Author:Cat Stevens

“The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.”

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Book:Civilization on Trial

Source: Civilization on Trial

“This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.”

Reason Islam Superstitions Clash Civilisation Christendom

Author:Polly Toynbee

“The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy.”

World Believe Democracy Majority Strategy Islam Terrorism

Author:Gijs de Vries

“All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.”

Religion Values Teach Knowing Failing Islam Value Systems Lenient

Author:Abdurrahman Wahid

“It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.”

Fighting Islam International Terrorist Imaginary Associates Crusades

Author:Omar Bongo

“The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.”

Believe Humans Different Humanity Quality Perception Islam Traditional Southern Baptists Human Qualities Perception Of Life Southern Baptist

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle - either victory or martyrdom.”

Country Earth America Son Duty Victory Battle Islam Allies Domination Martyrdom Zionist Jihad

Author:Ahmed Yassin

“The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam.”

World Structure Islam One Sided

Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

“I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as a critic. And I have come to conclusion that Muhammad (PBUH) was indeed a great man and a deliverer and benefactor of mankind which was till then writhing under the most agonising Pain.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.”

Inspirational Religion Turns Fall Spirituality Heaven Sun Doors Positive Raises Shining Islam Sufi

Author:Rumi

“If Husain (as) had fought to quench his worldly desires…then I do not understand why his sister, wife, and children accompanied him. It stands to reason therefore, that he sacrificed purely for Islam.”

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Author:Charles Dickens

“A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam figures: Hey, why not us?”

Enough Bigs Given Dying Figures Civilization Islam Western Surrender Impression Hey Why Not Western Civilization Chunks

Book:America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It

Source: America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It

“Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify oneself or one's community.”

Community Struggle Holy Islam Oneself Jihad

Author:John O. Brennan

“Al-Qa'ida is the antithesis of the peace, tolerance and humanity that is at the heart of Islam.”

Heart Humanity Islam Tolerance Als Antithesis

Author:John O. Brennan

“If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.”

Ifs Years Next Chance Hundred Europe England Islam Ruling

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Superstitious." What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith". But if you believed in astrology or Friday the thirteenth it was superstition! Who had the right to call other people's belief superstition?”

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Author:Jostein Gaarder

“Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other; nothing is superfluous and nothing lacking; and the result is a structure of absolute balance and solid composure.”

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Author:Muhammad Asad

“God is universal," spluttered the priest. The imam nodded strong approval. "There is only one God." "And with their one god Muslims are always causing troubles and provoking riots. The proof of how bad Islam is, is how uncivilized Muslims are,: pronounced the pandit. "Says the slave-driver of the cast system," huffed the imam. "Hindus enslave people and worship dressed-up dolls." "They are golden calf lovers. They kneel before the cows," the priest chimed in. "While Christians kneel before a white man! They are flunkies of a foreign god. They are nightmare of all nonwhite people.”

Source: Life of Pi

“It occurs to me to wonder: do I believe in any god, or even positively not believe, as James does? I believe in systems and methods. I believe in the beauties of philosophy and poetry. I believe that the work we do and leave behind us is our afterlife; and I believe that history lies, but sometimes so well that I can't bring myself to resent it. I believe that truth is beauty, but not, I'm afraid, the reverse. It doesn't seem sufficient to sustain one in life's rigorous moments. Perhaps I shall embrace Islam. Its standards for poetry seem very high.”

“I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.”

Beautiful Spirit Religion Challenges Islam Devotion Brotherhood

Book:Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

“We all sat there laughing and sipping tea peacefully, an infidel and representatives from three warring sects of Islam. And I thought if we can get along this well, we can accomplish anything. The British policy was ‘divide and conquer.’ But I say ‘unite and conquer.”

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Author:Greg Mortenson

“I"m often accused of being irreligious, and I suppose it's for this very reason. Whether it's Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Judaism, or any other ism, when a religioin is created on the subtle premise that God withholds his love and you must submit to the system to earn that love, I consider it the worst of corruptions... For centuries, the church has been telling us that if we want God to love us, we need to follow the rules. It's been far more important to focus on the sin problem than the love problem.”

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