20th century Quote by John Keegan

The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of…

— John Keegan

Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.

— Youssou N'Dour

I draw a distinction between traditional Islam and Islamism. Islamism emerged in its modern form in the 1920s and is driven by a belief…

— Daniel Pipes

There is no problem with Islam itself or with the Muslims, but these are difficult times, and the difficulty stems from radical Islam.

— Daniel Pipes

Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries…

— Salman Rushdie

Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly…

— Azar Nafisi

Good people in the West have often failed to distinguish between Islam and Islamism.

— Phyllis Chesler

Islam takes advantage of two structural flaws that exist in the Western society. One is political correctness and other is the decline of morality.

— Ali Sina

The trouble with Islam is deeply rooted in its teachings. Islam is not only a religion. Islam (is) also a political ideology that preaches…

— Wafa Sultan

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

— Demba Ba

Even the Islam stuff I thought was pretty respectful about Islam in a funny way. I mean, yes, from a secular point of view,…

— Salman Rushdie

Anybody looking at the history even of the 20th century would not single out Islam as the bloodthirsty religion; it was Christian/Nazi/Communist Europe and…

— Nicholas Kristof