--- title: "11 American Muslim Quotes by 11 authors" description: "Browse 11 American Muslim quotes by 11 authors. Discover the best American Muslim sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a06/hamza-yusuf-3536_american_muhammad-ali-put-an-end-to-the-idea-that_2351657.png" --- > [Muhammad Ali put an end to the idea that you can't be an American and a Muslim.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hamza-yusuf/muhammad-ali-put-an-end-to-the-idea-that-you-can-t-be-an-american-and/) [Hamza Yusuf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hamza-yusuf/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a06/hamza-yusuf-3536_american_muhammad-ali-put-an-end-to-the-idea-that_2351657.png) > [I am proud of being a Somali-American Muslim, and my wardrobe has been an important part of my religious and cultural upbringing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/halima-aden/i-am-proud-of-being-a-somali-american-muslim-and-my-wardrobe-has-been/) [Halima Aden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/halima-aden/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f49/halima-aden-8338_being_i-am-proud-of-being-a-somali-american-mu_1366337.jpg) > [Only in America can the first-generation Indian American Muslim kid get on the stage and make fun of the president.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hasan-minhaj/only-in-america-can-the-first-generation-indian-american-muslim-kid/) [Hasan Minhaj](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hasan-minhaj/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e5/hasan-minhaj-3513_america_only-in-america-can-the-first-generation_2231223.jpg) > [So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-waldman/so-the-premise-of-the-submission-is-that-there-s-an-anonymous/) [Amy Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-waldman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/612/amy-waldman-14698_architect_so-the-premise-of-the-submission-is-that_1239503.png) > [Radicalization does not happen to young people with a strong grounding in the American Muslim mainstream; increasingly, it happens online, and sometimes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suhaib-webb/radicalization-does-not-happen-to-young-people-with-a-strong/) [Suhaib Webb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suhaib-webb/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ceb/suhaib-webb-38666_doe_radicalization-does-not-happen-to-young_2394764.png) > [There is no more effective way to radicalize American Muslim youth than for political leaders to make public displays of prejudice against…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/miroslav-volf/there-is-no-more-effective-way-to-radicalize-american-muslim-youth/) [Miroslav Volf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/miroslav-volf/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab8/miroslav-volf-11496_america_there-is-no-more-effective-way-to-radica_3052026.png) > [ They \[American Muslim community\] need to have close working cooperation with law enforcement in these communities, not be alienated and pushed away… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hillary-clinton/they-american-muslim-community-need-to-have-close-working-cooperation/) [Hillary Clinton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hillary-clinton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/625/hillary-clinton-51_community_they-american-muslim-community-need-to-h_1632429.jpg) > [If you are an American Muslim, you live in a community that is really struggling to get its feet off the ground.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haroon-moghul/if-you-are-an-american-muslim-you-live-in-a-community-that-is-really/) [Haroon Moghul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haroon-moghul/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ae/haroon-moghul-23614_community_if-you-are-an-american-muslim-you-live-i_245447.jpg) > [I have written on numerous occasions that there is no distinction in the American Muslim community between peaceful Muslims and jihadists. While…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-spencer/i-have-written-on-numerous-occasions-that-there-is-no-distinction-in/) [Robert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-spencer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eee/robert-spencer-14900_accepting_i-have-written-on-numerous-occasions-tha_2823526.png) > [Talk to me 20 years ago and I had a complete sense of illegitimacy as an American Muslim. I felt like I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asra-nomani/talk-to-me-20-years-ago-and-i-had-a-complete-sense-of-illegitimacy-as/) [Asra Nomani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asra-nomani/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59d/asra-nomani-33369_accepting_talk-to-me-20-years-ago-and-i-had-a-comp_974575.png) > [“Let’s look at your average American Muslim, someone like Siraj Wahaj, the recipient of the American Muslim community’s highest honors. Mr. Wahaj…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brigitte-gabriel/let-s-look-at-your-average-american-muslim-someone-like-siraj-wahaj/) [Brigitte Gabriel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brigitte-gabriel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c7/brigitte-gabriel-16300_daily-prayer_let-s-look-at-your-average-american-musl_2624524.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/american-muslim/#itemlist", "name": "American Muslim Quotes", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Muhammad Ali put an end to the idea that you can't be an American and a Muslim.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hamza Yusuf" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hamza-yusuf/muhammad-ali-put-an-end-to-the-idea-that-you-can-t-be-an-american-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": 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While Americans prefer to imagine that the vast majority of American Muslims are civic-minded patriots who accept wholeheartedly the parameters of American pluralism, this proposition has actually never been proven.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Spencer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-spencer/i-have-written-on-numerous-occasions-that-there-is-no-distinction-in/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eee/robert-spencer-14900_accepting_i-have-written-on-numerous-occasions-tha_2823526.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eee/robert-spencer-14900_accepting_i-have-written-on-numerous-occasions-tha_2823526.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eee/robert-spencer-14900_accepting_i-have-written-on-numerous-occasions-tha_2823526.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I have written on numerous occasions that there is no distinction in the American Muslim community between…” — Robert Spencer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Talk to me 20 years ago and I had a complete sense of illegitimacy as an American Muslim. I felt like I wasn't authentic. But I don't understand and I don't believe or subscribe to this idea that I don't have a right to speak as a Muslim because I'm an American. Being Muslim is to accept and honor the diversity that we have in this world, culturally and physically, because that's what Islam teaches, that we are people of many tribes. I think the American Muslim experience is of a different tribe than the Saudi Muslim world, but that doesn't make us less than anyone else.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Asra Nomani" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asra-nomani/talk-to-me-20-years-ago-and-i-had-a-complete-sense-of-illegitimacy-as/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59d/asra-nomani-33369_accepting_talk-to-me-20-years-ago-and-i-had-a-comp_974575.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59d/asra-nomani-33369_accepting_talk-to-me-20-years-ago-and-i-had-a-comp_974575.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59d/asra-nomani-33369_accepting_talk-to-me-20-years-ago-and-i-had-a-comp_974575.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Talk to me 20 years ago and I had a complete sense of illegitimacy as an American Muslim. I felt like I…” — Asra Nomani", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Let’s look at your average American Muslim, someone like Siraj Wahaj, the recipient of the American Muslim community’s highest honors. Mr. Wahaj had the privilege in June of 1991 of becoming the first Muslim to deliver a daily prayer before the U.S. House of Representatives. In his prayer he recited from the Koran and appealed to almighty God to guide America’s leaders ‘and grant them righteousness and wisdom.’ The same Wahaj spoke to a Muslim audience a year later in New Jersey. This time Wahaj was singing a different tune to a different audience, and his words were far from his moderate ones in front of the U.S. House of Representatives. ‘If only Muslims were more clever politically,’ he told his New Jersey listeners, ‘they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate. If we were united and strong, we’d elect our own emir [leader] and give allegiance to him. . . . [T]ake my word, if 6-8 million Muslims unite in America, the country will come to us.\" If Wahaj is the example of the American Muslim community and the receiver of its highest honors, who needs enemies? If this is whom our government calls a ‘moderate’ and invites to deliver a prayer before the House of Representatives, we have ignorant elected officials sitting in our capital running our country. Do you feel safer now knowing that not all Muslims are plane-flying, bomb-wearing, or car-driving terrorists? Talking about overthrowing our government and replacing it with an Islamic caliphate is terrorism of a different kind, but it is still terrorism. This is the more dangerous kind, the kind that circles you slowly, so that by the time you realize you are about to be killed, it’s already too late to do anything about it. Where is the outrage? Have we lost our sense of patriotism and loyalty to America? Do you consider this ‘moderation’? A highly respected, award-winning Muslim from the Islamic American community calling to overthrow the United States government?”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Brigitte Gabriel" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brigitte-gabriel/let-s-look-at-your-average-american-muslim-someone-like-siraj-wahaj/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c7/brigitte-gabriel-16300_daily-prayer_let-s-look-at-your-average-american-musl_2624524.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c7/brigitte-gabriel-16300_daily-prayer_let-s-look-at-your-average-american-musl_2624524.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c7/brigitte-gabriel-16300_daily-prayer_let-s-look-at-your-average-american-musl_2624524.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Let’s look at your average American Muslim, someone like Siraj Wahaj, the recipient of the American Muslim…” — Brigitte Gabriel", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/american-muslim/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/american-muslim/", "name": "American Muslim Quotes", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/american-muslim/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a06/hamza-yusuf-3536_american_muhammad-ali-put-an-end-to-the-idea-that_2351657.png" }, "description": "Browse 11 American Muslim quotes by 11 authors. 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