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Islam Quotes by Sam Harris

26 Islam quotes by Sam Harris

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Sam Harris approaches Islam with his usual analytical rigor, questioning assumptions while probing deeper meanings. Across twenty‑six excerpts his skeptical tone meets a genuine curiosity, giving readers a thoughtful, if sometimes provocative, perspective.

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It is time we admitted that we are not at war with “terrorism.” We are at war with Islam.

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Islam, at the moment, is the motherlode of bad ideas.

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Words like 'God' and 'Allah' must go the way of 'Apollo' and 'Baal' or they will unmake our world.

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There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should…

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The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and…

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The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology…

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Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we…

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There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.

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We should profile Muslims, or anyone who looks like he or she could conceivably be Muslim, and we should be honest about…

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The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character…

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“There are other ideologies with which to expunge the last vapors of reasonableness from a society’s discourse, but Islam is undoubtedly one…

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To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding…

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Recently , crowds of thousands gathered throughout the Muslim world - burning European embassies, issuing threats, taking hostages, even killing people -…

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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews. They're making incompatible claims on real estate in the Middle East as though God were…

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Take a moment to reflect upon the existence of the musical The Book of Mormon. Now imagine the security precautions that would…

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The principal tenet of Jainism is non-harming. Observant Jains will literally not harm a fly. Fundamentalist Jainism and fundamentalist Islam do not…

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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a…

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Nonbelievers like myself stand beside you, dumbstruck by the Muslim hordes who chant death to whole nations of the living. But we…

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“Nothing that a Christian and a Muslim can say to each other will render their beliefs mutually vulnerable to discourse, because the…

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God is great"). Conversations about the practical impossibility of God's existence and the science-based irrationality of an afterlife slid seamlessly into xenophobia…

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“Indeed, religion is as much a living spring of violence today as it was at any time in the past. The recent…

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The same failure of liberalism is evident in Western Europe, where the dogma of multiculturalism has left a secular Europe very slow…

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“Incompatible religious doctrines have Balkanised our world and these divisions have become a continuous source of bloodshed. Indeed, religion is as much…

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“even if Noam Chomsky were right about everything, the Islamic doctrines related to martyrdom, jihad, blasphemy, apostasy, the rights of women and…

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Muslims must learn that if they make belligerent and fanatical claims upon the tolerance of free societies, they will meet the limits…

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“[...] atheists are the most reviled minority in the United States. Polls indicate that being an atheist is a perfect impediment to…

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There is no question but that nominally religious scientists like Francis Collins and Kenneth R. Miller are doing lasting harm to our discourse by…

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“Your principal concern appears to be that the Creator of the universe will take offense at something people do while naked. This prudery of…

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“As manuals for contemplative understanding, the Bible and the Koran are worse than useless. Whatever wisdom can be found in their pages is never…

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About 120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer. If our polls are…

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“If your golf instructor were to insist that you shave your head, sleep no more than four hours each night, renounce sex, and subsist…

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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or…

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The second commandment is "Thou shall not construct any graven images." Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally? The second…

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“But the reality of consciousness appears irreducible. Only consciousness can know itself—and directly, through first-person experience.”

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“Whether or not one likes Huntington's formulation, one thing is clear: the evil that has finally reached our shores is not merely the evil…

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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.

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