“In the dense, green landscape of eastern Madhya Pradesh, where the borders of Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh abut, lies the district of Balaghat. Known for its copper mines and tribal heritage, it is an area of quiet villages and seemingly settled rhythms of life. But in one such village, Ghoti, a silence of a different, more menacing kind has descended. It is the silence of enforced isolation, a social and economic vacuum imposed on its small Muslim community. For over a week now, the ten Muslim families of Ghoti have been living as pariahs in their own homes. Their crime? Objecting to hateful speeches made against their faith. In a stark and punitive response, local Hindu groups have declared a total social and economic boycott. An edict has been issued: any Hindu who maintains contact with these Muslim families—be it sharing a meal, conducting business, or even offering condolences—will face a fine of ₹5,000 and social ostracisation.” IndiaMinority GroupsMuslim CommunityIndian DemocracyEconomic BoycottHindu Groups Author:Hindu groups in India
“The Muslim community should not be treated as a problematic community, but treated as a community that is willing to play its role in the mainstream.” ShouldPlayCommunityRolesWillingCommunicationTreatedMainstreamMuslim Community Author:Iqbal Sacranie
“The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.” CommunityMembersCommittedLocalsParisRegionsImmigrantsMetroNorth AfricaMuslim Community Author:Otto Schily
“I’m a Muslim, we come from a Muslim community and we are very critical of western or American foreign policy. So if I’ve got the right and if other Muslims have got the right to criticize… likewise everyone else has also got the right to criticize everything else.” IfsCommunityPolicyWesternCriticalCriticizeForeign PolicyAmerican Foreign PolicyMuslim Community Author:Maajid Nawaz
“If the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris had nothing to do with Islam as President Francois Hollande suggested, why did he invite Muslim community leaders to meet him the day after the tragedy?” IfsPresidentCommunityLeaderTragedyIslamParisInvitesCharlieMuslim CommunityCharlie Hebdo Author:Amir Taheri
“It's been our experience that any time a Muslim community anywhere seeks to expand or establish a mosque or some other kind of institution, there will be some type of opposition, when you scratch the surface, often there is a tremendous level of bigotry and stereotyping in the opposition.” KindCommunityLevelsTypeInstitutionsSurfaceOppositionBigotryStereotypeScratchesMosquesMuslim Community Author:Ibrahim Hooper
“And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.” IfsShouldMovingCommunityLeadershipBuildingAreasBridgesZeroPopeSomewhere ElseNunMosquesAuschwitzGround ZeroUptownBuilding BridgesMuslim Community Author:Peter King
“The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn't, we will kill you.” IfsSeemsFacesCommunityPositionIslamProvocationMuslim Community Author:Sam Harris
“Emergence of Muslim communities in their own lands. They let in millions of people from a radically different culture and background. The Europeans have to ask themselves if all these people can be integrated. This has led to major problems. And...I do not stereotype all Muslims.” PeopleIfsDifferentProblemCultureAsksCommunityMillionsLandMajorsBackgroundsStereotypeIntegratedEmergenceDifferent CulturesMajor ProblemsMuslim Community Author:Manfred Gerstenfeld
“We only have one penal code in the United States, and it applies in every single state, every city, no matter who is there. This is part of the fear mongering, that has gripped the United States, the notion that we need to pass a law forbidding the institution of a foreign Law in the United States when it is forbidden by the constitutions is yet another example of targeting Muslim communities because they are seen as different, or exceptional in other ways.” WayNeedsDifferentMatterStatesLawCommunityUnitedCitiesUnited StatesExampleConstitutionInstitutionsNotionCodeForbiddenExceptionalMuslim CommunityFear Mongering Author:Mark Durie
“I think what speaks loudest and what speaks to your point is the blood that's spilling from Australia, to now California. I mean, how much blood has to be spilled until we recognize inside of a Muslim community that with do have an ideological problem?” ThinkingMeanProblemSpeakCommunityBloodCaliforniaAustraliaIdeologicalSpillingMuslim Community Author:Dalia Mogahed
“We don't have to give up trying to convert each other. What we have to do is show respect to one another. And to speak to each other with a sense that even if people don't convert, they are God's people, God loves them, and we do not make the judgment of who is going to heaven and who is going to hell. I think that what we all have to do is leave judgment up to God. The Muslim community is very evangelistic, however what Muslims will not do is condemn Jews and Christians to Hell if in fact they do not accept Islam.” PeopleIfsThinkingGivingTryingFactsShowsChristianSpeakHeavenCommunityAcceptingHellGiving UpJudgmentIslamJewGod LoveGoing To HeavenShow RespectMuslim Community Author:Tony Campolo
“We who don't want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would happen if Christians, feminists and Enlightenment thinkers were to start proselytizing in the Muslim community.” IfsWantHappensChristianCommunityEnlightenmentIslamFeministSpreadAgentsRadicalThinkerRadical IslamProselytizingMuslim CommunityEnlightenment Thinkers Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali
“I want to send a message that we value our Muslim communities.” WantValuesCommunityMessagesMuslim Community Author:Keir Starmer
“If we are true small 'l' liberals, it's our job to seek out feminist Muslims, ex-Muslims, liberal Muslims, dissenting voices within Muslim communities, gay Muslims - we should promote those voices and in doing so, we demonstrate Islam is not a monolith, Muslims are not homogenous, and that Muslims are truly internally diverse.” IfsShouldJobsVoiceCommunityGayIslamFeministDiverseExesMuslim Community Author:Maajid Nawaz
“The practical reality that in order for us to identify homegrown violent extremism and prevent it or root it out before it takes action, we are going to need the cooperation of Muslim communities in this country.” NeedsCountryRealityActionOrderCommunityRootsViolentPracticalsCooperationExtremismMuslim CommunityHomegrown Author:Marco Rubio
“Donald Trump has consistently insulted Muslims abroad, Muslims at home, when we need to be cooperating with Muslim nations and with the American Muslim community.” NeedsHomeNationsCommunityTrumpConsistentlyInsultedCooperatingMuslim Community Author:Hillary Clinton
“They [American Muslim community] need to have close working cooperation with law enforcement in these communities, not be alienated and pushed away as some of Donald's [Trump] rhetoric, unfortunately, has led to.” NeedsLawCommunityTrumpCooperationRhetoricLaw EnforcementEnforcementMuslim CommunityPushed Away Author:Hillary Clinton
“If [Donald ] Trump goes after - if Trump fails, frankly, to stand up right now for the Muslim community - right now, Muslims are being bullied. Women wearing hijabs are being bullied and people are saying, "Trump, Trump!" when they're doing it.” PeopleIfsCommunityFailingTrumpRight NowBulliedBeing BulliedHijabMuslim Community Author:Van Jones
“If the Muslim community in Michigan comes out strongly, I think they will make a difference.” IfsThinkingCommunityDifferencesMaking A DifferenceMichiganMuslim Community Author:Julianne Malveaux
“I'm an optimistic guy.It's just as much the case that people will come to me and ask my opinion about how to properly include the Muslim community, as it is that people will come with some hateful stuff too. When people come to me about my religion, it's not always a thing of "we don't want people like you here," which happens sometimes. But mostly it's people who would like to know more. I get a chance to help people understand the religion better.” PeopleKnowsWantSometimesHelpingHappensGuyAsksStuffCommunityChanceOpinionCasesLike YouOptimisticHatefulMuslim Community Author:Keith Ellison
“For those people who fail to see the injustices that are occurring, in particular with the Muslim community, I think it's because you've sat in a seat of privilege for a long time, and you kind of choose to be myopic and not think of those people around you.” PeopleThinkingKindLongCommunityFailingParticularLong TimeInjusticePrivilegeSatSeatsMyopicMuslim Community Author:Ibtihaj Muhammad
“People care. Their hearts are open, but people don't know exactly what the Dreamers are going through, or what sanctuary cities are for, or what's positive about the American Muslim community. When you don't know a lot, you can't do a lot.” PeopleKnowsHeartCareCommunityCitiesDreamerSanctuaryMuslim Community Author:Van Jones
“I think the Muslim community is now being asked to bear an unfair burden to save a great faith from the fundamentalists and a great nation from bigotry.” ThinkingNationsCommunityBearsBurdenBigotryUnfairGreat NationsGreat FaithMuslim Community Author:Van Jones
“Every person with a pulse has a responsibility to stand in solidarity with the Muslim community that is on the front lines fighting against groups like ISIS, both militarily and ideologically, every day, and now on the front line of standing up for civil liberties and civil rights to make America great. [They] are the best insurance for the safety of all Americans.” PersonsAmericaFightingCommunityLinesResponsibilityLibertyRightsGroupsFrontsStandingSafetyCivil RightsSolidarityIsisPulseCivil LibertiesMuslim Community Author:Van Jones
“It is the Muslim community that has the best chance of stopping and checking and pushing back on people who are trying to politicize their own faith. So this attack on Islam is an attack on a great faith. It undermines the people who are trying to rescue this faith from these horrible people. It endangers every human being on earth because it accelerates the radicalization of some and emboldens the worst elements of that faith. So this fight is a fight I think that we have to take on.” PeopleThinkingTryingHumansEarthFightingCommunityChanceHuman BeingsWorstElementsIslamHorriblePushingRescueStoppingAccelerateGreat FaithMuslim CommunityPushing Back Author:Van Jones
“The incubator for terrorism, after the Middle East, is Europe, partly because of proximity, partly because of the existence of large Muslim communities there.” CommunityExistenceMiddleEuropeTerrorismEastMiddle EastProximityMuslim Community Author:Sidney Blumenthal
“The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community.” YearsLastsCommunityCommittedTerroristLocalsFilmmakerLast YearSupporterMurdererVansIstanbulNetherlandsMuslim Community Author:Otto Schily
“Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one.” CommunityUnitedLeaderKingdomsFormalSymbolicCommonwealthUnited KingdomMuslim Community Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali
“we will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities” CommunityChristianityStudyIslamHusseinMind BlowingChristianity And IslamMuslim Community Author:Barack Obama
“In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.” Has BeensCommunityChristianityInnovationIslamAncientOur TimeHusseinMind BlowingAncient TimesChristianity And IslamMuslim Community Author:Barack Obama
“I have written on numerous occasions that there is no distinction in the American Muslim community between peaceful Muslims and jihadists. While Americans prefer to imagine that the vast majority of American Muslims are civic-minded patriots who accept wholeheartedly the parameters of American pluralism, this proposition has actually never been proven.” CommunityAcceptingImagineWrittenMajorityPeacefulOccasionsDistinctionImagine ThatPatriotProvenPropositionsCivicsParametersWholeheartedlyPluralismMuslim CommunityCivic Minded Author:Robert Spencer