Christianity Quote by Maria Rosa Menocal

“As dhimmi, Jews and Christians had rights, including the right to practice their religion and establish their own communities. In return, they had to…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“Since the rise of Islam, Jews had lived as a tolerated minority, or dhimmi, a status granted to Jews and Christians because they were…

— Matti Friedman

“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

“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

“Ibn al-Wahhab was not the godfather of contemporary terrorist movements. Rather, he was a voice of reform, reflecting mainstream eighteenth-century Islamic thought. His vision…

— Natana J. Delong-Bas

“It has been argued that the hostility of the Arabian Jewish tribes to Mohammed was due to his alliances with dissenting Jewish sects.8 Our…

— Harry Freedman

“In [the] early days, Muslims did not see Islam as a new, exclusive religion but as a continuation of the primordial faith of the…

— Karen Armstrong

“Whether most Muslims are peaceable is irrelevant. The fact is that fanatics rule Islam now & act-out what the Qur'an truly says ...maul, march,…

— Gary F. Patton

“for the last half of the Koran recited by Mohammed, the god of Islam was commanding Muslims to fight the unbelievers (the Kuffar), to…

— Peter Mcloughlin

“He also made all Muslims publicly forswear that part of their Holy Quran which permits them to dupe, cheat and kill all who are…

— Gary Jennings

“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

“There is nothing in our book, the Qur'an, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be…

— Malcolm X