Sometimes people have said that Islam, in its own calendar, is still only in the Middle Ages. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
What I do think is evident is that those countries in the world where Islamic extremism has recovered the most power, those… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If Islam is to be reconciled with modernity, these voices must be encouraged until they swell into a roar. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
No, I don't think it's fair to label Islam 'violent.' But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family in which there was very little religion. My father wasn't religious at all. But he was… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Mahound comes to me for revelation, asking me to choose between monotheist and henotheist alternatives, and I'm just some idiot actor having… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“If you are for Allah, I am for Al-Lat. And she doesn't believe your God when he recognizes her. Her opposition to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
What is needed is a move beyond tradition, nothing less than a reform movement to bring the core concepts of Islam into… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
To put it as simply as possible: I am not a Muslim.[...] I do not accept the charge of apostacy, because I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“O my vanity I am an arrogant man, is this weakness, is it just a dream of power? Must I betray myself… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes people have said that Islam, in its own calendar, is still only in the Middle Ages. It's still in the fifteenth… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When we stop believing in gods we can start believing in their stories, I retort. There are of course no such things… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The police arrived and went to question the driver of the truck, who was still sitting in his cab, scratching his head.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“So-called Islamic 'fundamentalism' does not spring, in Pakistan, from the people. It is imposed on them from above. Autocratic regimes find it… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds so many… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Even the Islam stuff I thought was pretty respectful about Islam in a funny way. I mean, yes, from a secular point… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I determined to make my peace with Islam, even at the cost of my pride. Those who were surprised and displeased by… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We have seen many other not just writers and intellectuals, but including writers and intellectuals in the Muslim world being attacked and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I reluctantly concluded that there was no way for me to help bring into being the Muslim culture I'd dreamed of, the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Islam doesn't have to mean blind faith. It can mean what it always meant in your family, a culture, a civilization, as… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“...one could accept Muhammad as a genuine mystic—just as one could accept Joan of Arc's voices as having genuinely been heard by… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going to pull… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
“Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
“information, in a stream-of-consciousness soliloquy that revealed the extent to which he had internalised the adversarial fragmentation of American culture and made it a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
![“To put it as simply as possible: I am not a Muslim.[...] I do not accept the charge of apostacy, because I have never in my adult life affirmed any belief, and what one has not affirmed one can not be said to have apostasized from. The Islam I know states clearly that 'there can be no coercion in…” quote by Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c44/salman-rushdie-153_accepting_to-put-it-as-simply-as-possible-i-am-not_245927.jpg)
