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Islam Quotes by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- I don't believe there is such a thing as 'moderate Islam.' I think it's better to talk about degrees of belief and degrees of practice.
- I have had to pay a price for leaving Islam and for speaking out. I have to pay for round-the-clock security because of the death…
- My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.
- The people who believe themselves to be on the left, and who defend the agents of Islam in the name of tolerance and culture, are…
- Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and the west. But…
- It was Friday, July 24, 1992, when I stepped on the train. Every year I think of it. I see it as my real birthday:…
- I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that Islam is peace and tolerance.
- After the horrific massacre Wednesday at the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, perhaps the West will finally put away its legion of useless tropes…
- Islam is not a race...Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy.
- Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong. But acknowledging…
- Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its…
- Infuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of the Islamic world…
- I see no difference between Islam and Islamism. Islam is defined as submission to the will of Allah, as it is described in the Koran.…
- My brother thinks it is very, very bad that I left Islam. My half-sister wants to convert me back; I want to convert her to…
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- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong
- Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar. — Karen Armstrong
- The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and put Muslims on the spotlight. — Karen Armstrong
- But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside,… — Abu Bakar Bashir
- We should be proud that our Prophet came into the world with the message of Islam to change it for the better,… — Abu Bakar Bashir
- There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all… — Abu Bakar Bashir
- Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures. — Annie Besant
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