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“Islam doesn't promote violence or peace. Islam is just a religion, and like every religion in the world, it depends on what you bring to it. If you're a violent person, your Islam, your Judaism, your Christianity, your Hinduism, is going to be violent.”

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Author:Reza Aslan

“The driving force behind today's terrorist threat is Islamist fundamentalism. The struggle we are engaged in is, at root, ideological. During the last century a strain of Islamist thinking has developed which, like other totalitarianisms, such as Nazism and Communism, offers its followers a form of redemption through violence.”

“My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.”

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Book:The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

“Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Now let's make two things clear: ISIL is not 'Islamic.' No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL's victims have been Muslim. And ISIL is certainly not a state. It was formerly al Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq, and has taken advantage of sectarian strife and Syria's civil war to gain territory on both sides of the Iraq-Syrian border. It is recognized by no government, nor the people it subjugates. ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.”

“The Nazis believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith.”

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Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“People kill and are killed because they cling too tightly to their own beliefs and ideologies. When we believe that ours is the only faith that contains the truth, violence and suffering will surely be the result.”

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Book:Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition

“That both Muslim fundamentalists and the Christian right are today focusing their attempts to regain control in a rapidly changing world on frantic efforts to maintain control over women, particularly over women's sexuality. Moreover, given their mythologies about "holy wars," it is also understandable that they should use "divinely approved" violence to do so.”

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Author:Riane Eisler

“That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.”

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Book:All Religions are True

Source: All Religions are True