Islam Quotes - page 5

Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance. (Barack Obama)
Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace. View quote
Barack Obama
As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam. View quote
Barack Obama
I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity. View quote
C. S. Lewis
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. View quote
Mosab Hassan Yousef
The biggest terrorist is the God of the Quran. I know this is very dangerous and this will offend many people. The more you follow the steps of the prophet of Islam and the God of Islam, the more you get close to being a terrorist. View quote
Mosab Hassan Yousef
If there's a good side of Islam, at the end of the day it serves evil. View quote
Mosab Hassan Yousef
A remarkable feature of Islam is that it gives dignity even to the humblest illiterate peasants. It gives them a certain human dignity which one doesn't find in other societies. View quote
Bernard Lewis
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. View quote
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. View quote
Walter Kasper
There is no such thing as one Islam. The Koran is ambiguous and Islam is not a monolithic entity. (Walter Kasper)
The conflict with Islam has, after all, existed throughout European history. View quote
Walter Kasper
[T]here are no forces on this planet more dangerous to us all than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism, of all species: Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, as well as countless smaller infections. View quote
Daniel Dennett
I have to admit that I'm kind of afraid of Islam. View quote
Edgar Hilsenrath
The best ally in the struggle against violent Islamism is moderate Islam. View quote
Lawrence Wright
Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity. View quote
Jermaine Jackson
I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong. View quote
Jermaine Jackson
The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity. View quote
Amin Maalouf
Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify oneself or one's community. View quote
John O. Brennan
I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam. View quote
Imran Khan
They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be. (Imran Khan)
This whole religion (of Islam) revolves around knowing the truth and acting by it, and action must be accompanied by patience. View quote
Ibn Taymiyyah
Saying that Islam is in heart, is similar to giving back the exam's paper completely white and saying : knowledge is in brain. View quote
Tariq Ramadan
The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways. View quote
William H. McNeill
Islam and democracy can function together. View quote
Ali Babacan