Islam Quotes

846 Islam quotes by 370 unique authors

Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam. — Feisal Abdul Rauf
Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and… — Feisal Abdul Rauf
Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the creator. — Feisal Abdul Rauf
Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent… — Pat Robertson
Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which… — Salman Rushdie
If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word… — Salman Rushdie
If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without… — Salman Rushdie
In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true… — Salman Rushdie
In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the… — Salman Rushdie
Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount… — Salman Rushdie
The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune,… — Salman Rushdie
This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to… — Salman Rushdie
When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't… — Salman Rushdie
Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature. — Basmah bint Saud
I write as someone who has no more time for repressive Islam than he does for repressive Christianity or Judaism, but at least look at… — Will Self
I like to read about different religions - Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism. — Wesley Snipes
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals. — Abdolkarim Soroush
I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam… — Cat Stevens
In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace… — Cat Stevens
Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam. — Cat Stevens
I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting… — Cat Stevens
In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam -… — Cat Stevens
The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it… — Arnold J. Toynbee
This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition. — Polly Toynbee
The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy. — Gijs de Vries

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