Dreams Quote by Hamed Abdel-Samad

“It is much easier to condemn Islam and 'oppressive Muslim men' than to unpack the intricate relationships between global politics related to empire building…

— Nadje Al-Ali

To speak of the Muslim world is not to endorse a totalitarian project, nor to bolster an Islamist narrative, nor to suggest that variety,…

— Mehdi Hasan

Muslim societies must leave behind these dual aspects: secularism/Islamism.

— Tariq Ramadan

Muslim organisations tend to have a low level of organisation. The communities in Europe are quite diverse.

— Gijs de Vries

It is important that the Muslim leaders, scholars, and intellectuals are much more vocal and explain what Islam is.

— Tariq Ramadan

“An Islamist is a Muslim who seeks to impose Shariah on others, including many ‘cultural’ or secular Muslims.”

— Dennis Prager

“The Jihadist mindset and unfailing commitment is to replace every single national government in the world with a Muslim government, with Sharia law replacing…

— John Price

Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.

— Salman Rushdie

“The construction of civilizational difference is not exclusive in any simple sense. The de-essentialization of Islam is paradigmatic for all thinking about the assimilation…

— Talal Asad

The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West. The two…

— Aga Khan IV

“From the eighth or ninth centuries, Muslim Arabs have been politically dominant in the Islamic world and have grown accustomed to that position; the…

— Benny Morris

The colonial experience all Muslim countrieswent through may be a factor in the fight against Western domination, British, French or whatever. They were until…

— Samuel P. Huntington