Atheist Quote by Huston Smith

There's a statement in the Quran: There should be "absolutely no compulsion in religion."

— Hamza Yusuf

“The mandate oozes hostility to religion (the sort of thing that, as detailed above, the president and his subordinates propose to ban when the…

— Andrew McCarthy

“If the prophet's political mission will be seen as normative for Muslims, the pluralist and even the "secular" nature of the charter of Medina…

— Mustafa Akyol

“From the very start, the Prophet did not conceive the content of his message as the expression of pure otherness versus what the Arabs…

— Tariq Ramadan

“It is these cancelled, earlier commands which our leaders use to deceive us about the violent history of Islam and the commands to violence…

— Peter Mcloughlin

“Quite so: the choice, as laid out by Muhammad himself, is conversion, subjugation as dhimmis, or the sword.49 Qutb accordingly denies any contradiction between…

— Robert Spencer

“Today, Medina is simultaneously the archetype of Islamic democracy and the impetus for Islamic militancy. Islamic Modernists like the Egyptian writer and political philosopher…

— Reza Aslan

“all rightly guided religion that submitted wholly to God, refused to worship man-made deities and preached that justice and equality came from the same…

— Karen Armstrong

“One of the secrets of the Muslim army's power was its relatively liberal attitude toward the religions of the defeated people-provided they were monoththeists,…

— Shlomo Sand

“In principle, all Islamic polities were (and are) required by Quranic injunction not to harm the dhimmi, to tolerate the Christians and Jews living…

— Maria Rosa Menocal

We are being challenged by Islam these years. There are some things for which one should display no tolerance. And when we are tolerant,…

— Margrethe II of Denmark

“No compulsion is there in religion. Rectitude has become clear from error. (Q2:256) We can dub this the ‘no compulsion’ verse. It does not…

— Michael Alan Cook