Deviation Quote by Mohammad Khatami

The freedom-lovers of the world mourn the sad demise of Imam Khomeini.

— Ruhollah Khomeini

When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a…

— Wadah Khanfar

“Khomeini espoused a militant religious doctrine rejecting not only the Middle Eastern political order, but also the contemporary international system since both perpetuated an…

— Efraim Karsh

“Shaped by political considerations, and then driven by geopolitical urgencies, Khomeinism was always a hybrid: the beneficiary of an ideological account of Islamic tradition,…

— Pankaj Mishra

The leaders of the Pahlavi regime, in an attempt to forestall the rising tide of the Islamic revolutionary movement, were hard at work to…

— Yousef Saanei

I remain faithful to the ideals of Imam Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution of 1357.

— Mehdi Karroubi

I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.

— Naguib Mahfouz

“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

“The ultimate irony of the influence of communism was that those who opposed it so ferociously – first the Ba‘th Party and then the…

— Fred Halliday

Every Muslim leader must unequivocally proclaim that terror committed in the name of Islam violates the core tenets of the Prophet Mohammed, and they…

— Mike Pompeo

Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort…

— Oriana Fallaci

Muslims have been subjected to so many tyrants and oppressive regimes. That's what the Arab Spring was about, but the problem comes in trying…

— Cat Stevens