British Quote by Munira Mirza

Islam and the West have clashed in the past and have not clashed. There is nothing inevitable about it.

— Lawrence Wright

Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Being subjected to Islamophobic abuse makes integration less likely and amplifies the views of the extremists rather than the mainstream. It's divisive and dangerous…

— Sadiq Khan

While there are many moderate Muslims, Islam's political ideology is radical and has global ambitions.

— Geert Wilders

If the West wants to have peace, then they have to accept Islamic rule.

— Abu Bakar Bashir

“The battle is not between Islam and the West; the real battle is between the extremists and moderates on both sides.”

— Sabeeha Rehman

I challenge British Muslims to accept that as strongly as they feel about Iraq or counter-terrorism measures, poverty and inequality have the biggest impact…

— Sadiq Khan

Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and the west.…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Today we're seeing fundamental conflicts within political Islam, with the fundamentalists on the one side and the moderates on the other. Who gains the…

— Zalmay Khalilzad

Islam is not a race...Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I believe we don't need to widen the divide between the West and Islam. Rather, we need to build dialogue to encourage tolerance and…

— Shirin Neshat

Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus contends that…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan