Islam Quote by Charles River Editors

The sense of Islam as a threatening Other - with Muslims depicted as fanatical, violent, lustful, irrational - develops during the colonial period in…

— Edward Said

“One of these was the perception that the Tanzimat had not tried to find compromise between the Islamic heritage and the European reforms and…

— Charles River Editors

“There was actually little talk about Islam from the first generation of leaders in Muslim countries. They had distinguished themselves as anti-imperialist activists: Atatürk,…

— Pankaj Mishra

The conflict with Islam has, after all, existed throughout European history.

— Walter Kasper

Islam is the Trojan Horse in Europe.

— Geert Wilders

“Therefore, the legacy of pan-Arabism as a phase in postwar Arab politics lies not in its failure over half a century to achieve Arab…

— Kanan Makiya

Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.

— Maajid Nawaz

Islam united all heresies persecuted in Byzantine Empire and synthesised them well into a conseffion that later became a symbol of Arab self-affirmation.

— Anonymous

Islam is not a religion, but an imperialist ideology like communism or fascism.

— Geert Wilders

“It was Islam’s armies and the empire they spread across three continents that reduced Christianity, with a few scattered exceptions, to a European faith.”

— Nigel Cliff

“As Islamic liberalism waned, and resistance arose against the West and its influence, that very resistance started to replace genuine religiosity as the basis…

— Mustafa Akyol

“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