Islam Quote by Bernard Lewis

Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.

— Blaise Pascal

Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“In [the] early days, Muslims did not see Islam as a new, exclusive religion but as a continuation of the primordial faith of the…

— Karen Armstrong

In Islam religion and politics cannot be separated. Unlike other religions, Islam is political by its very nature.

— Ali Sina

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent...

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Historically, Islam was hijacked about 20 or 30 years after the Prophet and interpreted in such a way that the ruler has absolute power…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Islam is politics or it is nothing.

— Ruhollah Khomeini

Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

During the first formative centuries of its existence, Christianity was separated from and indeed antagonistic to the state, with which it only later became…

— Bernard Lewis

Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus. The…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“From the very start, the Prophet did not conceive the content of his message as the expression of pure otherness versus what the Arabs…

— Tariq Ramadan

The Koran was assembled from a variety of prior Hagarene texts (hence the contradictions re Jesus' death) in order to provide the Moses-like Muhammad…

— Robert M. Price