Around the world Quote by Fethullah Gulen

As things change in Turkey people find in religious observance a certain framework of safety, of continuity. This is quite a common phenomenon. In…

— Andrew Mango

In Turkey the religious minorities have more rights than they do in Europe.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Muslims have their own traditions. The important point to bear in mind is that the whole Muslim tradition is totally and unequivocally opposed to…

— Bernard Lewis

In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

Let us assume that the Turks in whose ranks Europeans were fighting as well, even in high positions, would have conquered Vienna and Europe…

— Heinrich Himmler

While many Islamic countries pay lip service to the idea of freedom of religion, they don't put up with conversion from Islam to another…

— Ibn Warraq

One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are -…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

Where it is the majority religion, Islam does not recognize religious freedom, at least not as we understand it. Islam is a different culture.…

— Walter Kasper

Islam is an ideology and there's a religious component to it that's radicalized and in some cases it masks itself behind that religion, especially…

— Michael T. Flynn

Muslims stand by their religion entirely. It is a sort of religious absolutism. While Europeans have stopped defending the values of their civilization. They…

— Bassam Tibi

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history.…

— Salman Rushdie

How did the Turks become Muslim? They became Muslim through the Sufis. The Arabs never conquered the Turks. There were people in early Islam…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr