Muslim Quotes - page 3

Let's not play games. What I was suggesting - you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith. (Barack Obama)
In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education. View quote
Barack Obama
we will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities. View quote
Barack Obama
If you actually took the number of Muslims Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world. View quote
Barack Obama
Virtually all informed observers agree that a fair and equitable resolution of the plight of the Palestinians would considerably weaken the anger and hatred of Israel and the US in the Arab and Muslim worlds – and far beyond, as international polls reveal. Such an agreement is surely within reach, if the US and Israel depart from their long-standing rejectionism. View quote
Noam Chomsky
I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek, who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades, who also happens to be Muslim. View quote
Reza Aslan
When you're a brown Muslim from Iran talking about Jesus on TV, you need to keep your cool at all times, OK? That's not rocket science. View quote
Reza Aslan
Muslims have their own traditions. The important point to bear in mind is that the whole Muslim tradition is totally and unequivocally opposed to autocratic and oppressive government. This is very, very clear. View quote
Bernard Lewis
... generally speaking, Muslim tolerance of unbelievers was far better than anything available in Christendom, until the rise of secularism in the 17th century. View quote
Bernard Lewis
I have multiple identities. I'm British. I'm Pakistani. I'm a Muslim. I'm a writer. I'm a father. And each identity has rich overtones. So I must be careful to look at your identity, and that of others, in the same way. View quote
Ziauddin Sardar
I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off. (Aasif Mandvi)
Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with. View quote
Abdallah II
People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim. View quote
Amity Shlaes
People see me as Andre first. Then they see me as someone who happens to be a Muslim. View quote
Andre Carson
I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions. View quote
Ahmed Ben Bella
The Muslim world is deeply hurt by the campaign of violence initiated against our Palestinian brothers. View quote
Ahmet Necdet Sezer
It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq. View quote
Caspar Weinberger
The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many. View quote
David Wilkerson
I don't really go down one path. I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist, or a Catholic or a Christian or a Muslim, or Jewish. I couldn't put myself into any organized faith. View quote
Dean Cain
The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution. View quote
Denis McDonough
The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it? (Dennis C. Blair)
I think there's nothing better in the world than a spirited discussion about the Bible and Jesus and God and the Catholic faith, or the Jewish faith, or the Muslim faith--- any religion. View quote
Elizabeth Vargas
The fundamental idea which defines a human being as a Muslim is the declaration of faith: that there is a creator, whom we call God - or Allah, in Arabic - and that the creator is one and single. And we declare this faith by the declaration of faith, where we... bear witness that there is no God but God. View quote
Feisal Abdul Rauf
In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state. View quote
Feisal Abdul Rauf
It's important that we work very closely with moderate Muslim forces locally, nationally and internationally. View quote
Gijs de Vries