"You can't just read the Koran to understand……" — Daniel Pipes
"You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on."
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20 Quotes by Daniel Pipes
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It’s a mistake to blame Islam, a religion 14 centuries old, for the evil that should be ascribed to militant…
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Western European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and maintaining different standards of…
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The Koran is a not 'a product of Muhammad or even of Arabia,' but a collection of earlier Judeo-Christian liturgical…
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There is no problem with Islam itself or with the Muslims, but these are difficult times, and the difficulty stems…
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Israelis must be encouraged to defeat the Palestinians.
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To me, every fundamentalist Muslim, no matter how peaceable in his own behavior, is part of a murderous movement and…
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The Palestinians are a miserable people...and they deserve to be.
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All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most.
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Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.
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Again and again, when Westerners are perceived as denigrating Muhammad, the Koran, or Islam, Islamists demonstrate, riot or kill.
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Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict.
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Any Westerner can now buy a Koran for a dollar and burn it, while any Muslim with a platform can…
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