Freedom Quote by Bernard Lewis

“The medieval Islamic world . . . offered vastly more freedom than any of its predecessors, its contemporaries and most of its successors. —Bernard…

— Mustafa Akyol

The medieval Islamic world, from Central Asia to the shores of the Atlantic, was a world where scholars and men of learning flourished. But…

— Prince Charles

“An Islamic ideology capable of giving Muslims freedom, social justice and of interacting with other religions, cultures and ideologies”

— Hasan Hanafi

“For much of the history of Islam, moreover, the Christian world was not noticeably ahead in political or economic power, or in culture. When…

— Philip Jenkins

“Its insistence upon “knowledge” has no doubt made medieval Muslim civi lization one of great scholarly and scientifi c productivity, and through it, Muslim…

— Franz Rosenthal

“The choice between what we take and what we leave should emerge from a vision -- "an Islamic ideology capable of giving Muslims freedom,…

— Hasan Hanafi

“But that's Islam in the third millennium: they want the certainties of seventh-century society with the conveniences of the twenty-first century.”

— Mark Steyn

“The Islamic faith and ideology is at another pivotal moment in its history. Having survived for a thousand years or more after the Western…

— Cal Sarwar on facebook

“...differences between the world's Muslim communities are less important than what they share-namely, Islamism, sharia, and the dream of caliphate.”

— Hamed Abdel-Samad

Wherever Islam gets its foot on the ground, you see less freedom, less freedom of speech, less freedom of anything.

— Geert Wilders

“While the Muslim world took delight in innovation, progress and new ideas, much of Christian Europe withered in the gloom, crippled by a lack…

— Peter Frankopan

“Islam became the uncontested ‘last resort’. The fall of loyalties and ideologies, the lack of national projects and the sense of humiliation as a…

— Tarek Osman