Israel Quotes by Michael Muhammad Knight
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Michael Muhammad Knight’s nine short remarks on Israel condense his cultural commentary into a handful of lines. Though brief, the set offers a clear entry into his take on the region.
![“I passed by General Zia's tomb and knew that I never would have become Muslim if I was raised in this country [Pakistan]. As a rebellious American adolescent, I had chosen Islam because it was the religion of Malcolm X, a language of resistance against unjust power. But in Pakistan, Islam was the…” quote by Michael Muhammad Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f67/michael-muhammad-knight-25566_islam_i-passed-by-general-zia-s-tomb-and-knew_2949619.jpg)
![“In Pakistan both branches [of the Ahmadis] fell to persecutions, sanction by the state in 1984 with General Zia Ul-Haq's Ordinance XX, which forbade Ahmadis of either branch from calling themselves Muslims, their religion Islam, or their temples mosques. Under penalty of law, they could not…” quote by Michael Muhammad Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2de/michael-muhammad-knight-25566_islam_in-pakistan-both-branches-of-the-ahmadis_2759439.jpg)
![“During his hajj, Malcolm [Malcolm X] fell into a new Islam with the same blind faith that he had given to Elijah. Since he lived just a year after his hajj, Mecca became the neatly presented and cinema-friendly conclusion to his lifelong thread of transformations: but he finally found the Truth…” quote by Michael Muhammad Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b55/michael-muhammad-knight-25566_blind-faith_during-his-hajj-malcolm-malcolm-x-fell-i_988413.jpg)
