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
Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
“Arabian sunan by virtue of the fact that he merely adopted them (later on, this became the third sub-type of Prophetic Sunna,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You cannot simply read the Quran,not if you take it seriously.You either have surrendered to it already or you fight it. It… — Jeffrey Lang Copy Share Image
“the United States government will not tolerate any disrespect for the holy Koran.” What form our government’s intolerance will take remains unspecified.… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Well, yes, I mean, I think that, you know, my sources suggest that there's a lot of support for the notion that… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
A key difference between Christianity and Islam is that Muslims believe that the Koran contains verbatim the word of God; it is… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
“Consider the Koran, for example; this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical needs of countless millions… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
His readiness to undergo persecutions for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up… — William Montgomery Watt Copy Share Image
Would you say that any one sacred book is superior to all others in the world? ... I say the New Testament,… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
“I would be quite content to go to their children's bar mitzvahs, to marvel at their Gothic cathedrals, to 'respect' their belief… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The Jews invented the legend of the Nazi atrocities... Anyone who reads the Koran and the holy writings of the monotheistic religions… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
“nodded. “The Prophet lived about five hundred years after Jesus. Unlike the Bible, which is the collected writings of many authors over… — Jeffrey Small Copy Share Image
[The canonization of the Koran involved the] attribution of several, partially overlapping, collections of logia [sayings] (exhibiting a distinctly Mosaic imprint) to… — John Wansbrough Copy Share Image
When you pay attention to the Quran, you discover that it can only be from Allah. It becomes clearer and clearer to… — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
One of those blocks (that prevent the 'Middle East from entering the mainstream of modernity') is the orthodox tenet that the Koran… — Arnold Beichman Copy Share Image
“Arabic science throughout its golden age was inextricably linked to religion; indeed, it was driven by the need of early scholars to… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
We came to say, the Quran is our constitution, we are committed to God and his holy book. God willing, should they… — Ismail Haniyeh Copy Share Image
I think the bottom line for me and for Newsweek is that there were a lot of - we did retract this… — Michael Isikoff Copy Share Image
Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Saying "Ameen" is permissible after reciting the Surah of al-Hamd in the Salat (but it's still not part of the Salat) especially… — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah Copy Share Image
The Koran was assembled from a variety of prior Hagarene texts (hence the contradictions re Jesus' death) in order to provide the… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Holy Prophet Mohammed came into this world and taught us: 'That man is a Muslim who never hurts anyone by word… — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Copy Share Image
I can quote you lots of chapters in verse from the bible that are terrible for women. But you can use the… — Swanee Hunt Copy Share Image
He came to give His life for the sins of mankind, not to take life. Mohammad on the contrary was a warrior… — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
The Christian Church overwhelmingly - there are exceptions - who choose to call Muhammad a terrorist. They could call Jesus a terrorist… — Ramsey Clark Copy Share Image
“It astonished me that Muslims, who put such store on emulation of their prophet, didn’t wish to emulate him in something so… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
In Islam, Jesus is a prophet, and if you look at Mohammed and Jesus and Moses, it's not like Moses is better… — Haaz Sleiman Copy Share Image
If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
“The Koran is a fascist book which incites violence. That is why this book, just like [Adolf Hitler's] Mein Kampf, must be… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
“Criticism of the sanctity of books such as the Qur’an was voiced by the Mu’tazilites, who claimed that the Qur’an should not… — Yaakov Malkin Copy Share Image
“The Kazi is searching the words of the Koran, and instructing others: but if his heart be not steeped in that love,… — Kabir Copy Share Image
Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I see no difference between Islam and Islamism. Islam is defined as submission to the will of Allah, as it is described… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
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