1994 Quote by Christopher Hitchens

One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known…

— Salman Rushdie

“We are to render good for evil," she urged the Huguenots. "Hate and Christianity are incompatible. We must seek peace with all.”

— Richard M. Hannula

“We once again man the barricades -- alone. Berated by our smug, so-called allies, of the Western Democracies. Islam is going to turn this…

— Leon Uris

“At first, it seemed bizarre to find the progressive left making common cause with radical Islam. One half of the alliance professed to be…

— Mark Steyn

“if anybody dreams of the exclusive survival of his own religion and the destruction of the others, I pity him from the bottom of…

— Swami Vivekananda

Today we're seeing fundamental conflicts within political Islam, with the fundamentalists on the one side and the moderates on the other. Who gains the…

— Zalmay Khalilzad

“We are both people of faith," he said quietly. "Our enemies should be the people who have no faith, neither in their God, nor…

— Philippa Gregory

“The problem for US officials is the same problem that filters through all the other sections of our societies. It goes something like this.…

— Douglas Murray

“It was Pope Innocent III who placed in the hands of the church this terrible weapon of persecution, and who, by the awful severity…

— Rafael Sabatini

“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 battle is not between Islam and the West; the real battle is between the extremists and moderates on both sides.”

— Sabeeha Rehman

“If your target as a Muslim artist, writer or speaker is to target only Muslims you need to rethink your plan.”

— André Gide