Mark Durie

Sharia law is a Malignant law, it's totally based on the interpretation of the Koran and the Hajid, and the way Islam…

— Mark Durie

There is a crisis of religious authority world wide, and there are many reasons. One is colonialism.

— Mark Durie

Jihad is described as a war against Muslims, to establish the religion.

— Mark Durie

The Middle East is rejecting any other religions, so it's a one sided multiculturalism.

— Mark Durie

Everyone interprets something in a different way, it's channelled through the human mind.

— Mark Durie

One of the challenges that happened in Europe is that in accepting many Muslim people they didn't explain to them that those…

— Mark Durie

One of the reasons why people in the west are nervous is they are reading the Koran, and the life of Mohammed…

— Mark Durie

Islam has values, following the Koran and the example of Mohammed and they form people very profoundly and for some Muslims it…

— Mark Durie

Sharia is the most oppressive system on earth. It encourages people to lie, if it's for the benefits of Islam. It doesn't…

— Mark Durie

There's no such thing as values in Sharia law, that is what I was trying to explain, it's understood in thousands of…

— Mark Durie

Some people in the west have responded to the terrorist attacks by trying to look for everything that is positive in Islam.…

— Mark Durie

There needs to be more women scholars, and that is not something new, we need to return to the glorified past and…

— Mark Durie

If as we accept God is the perfect epitome of justice, mercy, goodness, and compassion, then our efforts to define the divine…

— Mark Durie

Multiculturalism is only in the West. We are absorbing a large number of Muslims in the west and at the same time…

— Mark Durie

We must recognise - both Muslims and non- Muslims, that the Koran is a text. We need human engagement with that text,…

— Mark Durie

The problem with multiculturalism is it's kind of arrogant. The arrogance is the assumption that everyone will buy into our values, because…

— Mark Durie

I met many Christians leaving the Middle East, hoping to come to Australia feeling they would leave behind a society where they…

— Mark Durie

The values that you bring to Sharia are whatever values you yourself have, if you are a bigot, misogynist and a violent…

— Mark Durie

In the United States we have all across this country, we have dozens of Halakha courts, in which particularly observant Jews can…

— Mark Durie

When you say Sharia, even to a Muslim, it's understood in vastly different ways, in many ways it's part of an identity…

— Mark Durie

We only have one penal code in the United States, and it applies in every single state, every city, no matter who…

— Mark Durie

Speaking as a Muslim in the West, I see a crisis in religious authority, we need Indigenous Muslim scholarship understanding the Western…

— Mark Durie

There are some disturbing messages in the Koran, there were declarations of war against non-believers, there's a declaration that Islam should be…

— Mark Durie

There's really no such thing as just Sharia, it's not one monolithic Continuum - Sharia is understood in thousands of different ways…

— Mark Durie

There are three foundational issues or three divisions that I should say that Sharia fits into, one is penal law of course…

— Mark Durie

Belief in one god, praying, charity, the five pillars, ethical moral objectives and messages in the Koran, the history of Islam. There…

— Mark Durie

When someone comes under abuse or attack a characteristic response is to blame yourself, especially if you are locked into a relationship…

— Mark Durie