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There is a dearth of imagination and I think that's an understatement in a modern Muslim world. There is very little willingness to imagine…

— Haroon Moghul

The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.

— Otto Schily

A kind of racism still exists in the United States, and Islamophobia is a more convenient way to express that sentiment. There has also…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

When I was in the US, I felt that the discourse there surrounding Muslims as the other, problematising Muslims and Islam as the other…

— Reza Aslan

Being Muslim has become synonymous with pointed questions, with tension and mistrust, even with conflict. It has become a global phenomenon with profound consequences…

— Tariq Ramadan

The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims.

— Hamza Yusuf

After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship…

— Abdolkarim Soroush

“A common error of western commentators who seek to interpret Islamism sympathetically is to view it as a form of localised resistance to globalisation.…

— John Gray

One thing that's interesting for me is the alignment of the U.S., Israel, and India along Islamophobia and hate for an entire group of…

— Himanshu Suri

I do not feel that the West has really become less condescending toward foreign cultures than the Greeks and Romans were: it has only…

— Muhammad Asad

Multiculturalism asserts that all cultures are equal and therefore none may criticize another; intellectuals and politicians are therefore reluctant to declare the obvious superiority…

— Edwin A. Locke

Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of…

— Samuel P. Huntington