Agree Quote by Miroslav Penkov

I think it's horrible that we Turks are always seen under the aspect of Islam first. I am constantly asked about religion, and almost…

— Orhan Pamuk

“Bulgaria has many secrets, many layers. The people do not give out information so easy. To understand Bulgaria, you must live here a long…

— Annie Ward

The clash of religion. We've had to coexist for hundreds of years in Bulgaria, in the Balkans, and we still don't get along. It's…

— Miroslav Penkov

In Turkey the religious minorities have more rights than they do in Europe.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

The bloody years of war and all the atrocities in European history have taught the Europeans that secular politics free of religious hatred is…

— Orhan Pamuk

My father was an atheist and he always described himself as a Serb. OK, maybe we were Muslim for 250 years, but we were…

— Emir Kusturica

“This observation, then, holds universally: But still one may be at some loss to account for it. It is not sufficient to observe, that…

— Christopher Hitchens

When it comes to culture, religion and mentality, most Russians identify with Europe.

— Sergei Ivanov

What we need in Europe is to push back against the idea that religion is so farfetched that it's not worth talking about.

— Francis Spufford

In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

“While nobody can pretend that Christian religious practice is thriving in most of Europe, the situation is nothing as grim as some recent accounts…

— Philip Jenkins

Churches and mosques you shall not heed / The religion of Albanians is Albanism

— Pashko Vasa