Art Quote by Ilan Pappe

People sometimes have a bad image of Islam but that is an image of what people are doing with Islam.

— Demba Ba

My dad is Arab. I'm not Muslim, but half of family is, so I see a lot of injustice happening in the portrayal of…

— Lexi Alexander

Film and TV shape how we see people, and so when Muslims are represented in a very one-note type of way, that's how you…

— Iman Vellani

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

If you choose to be a Muslim then you believe that it is on some level wrong to show the image of the Prophet…

— Aasif Mandvi

I now find myself looking at every sentence, every image, that purports to tell the West about the Arabs and the Muslims with this…

— Ahdaf Soueif

Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.

— Mohsin Hamid

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

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory…

— John Cusack

Especially after the Twin Towers, we're so terrified of 'Arabic' people. And talk about stereotypical negative portrayals of people of certain groups, if you…

— Jonathan Demme

I think what we are seeing is a vicious circle: by covering the controversies and the conflicting realities, it creates a much distorted perception…

— Tariq Ramadan