Foreign policy Quote by Nadje Al-Ali

“...differences between the world's Muslim communities are less important than what they share-namely, Islamism, sharia, and the dream of caliphate.”

— Hamed Abdel-Samad

“It’s not really possible to understand the threat posed not only to the survival of America, but to all free nations in the world,…

— John Price

The Muslim world suffers from internal divisions, antidemocratic practices, and the violation of fundamental human rights and freedoms.

— Fethullah Gulen

Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.

— Salman Rushdie

“For much of the history of Islam, moreover, the Christian world was not noticeably ahead in political or economic power, or in culture. When…

— Philip Jenkins

“Louis Duprée described this contradiction in his work on Afghanistan: “Islam, in essence, is not a backward, anti-progressive, anti-modern religion, although many of its…

— Jenny Nordberg

“The evidence, unfortunately, is that the West is not even remotely interested in mounting a defense of its values in the face of Muslim…

— Lee Harris

“...to imitate Western civilization in its spirit, its mode of life and its social organization is impossible without dealing a fatal blow to the…

— Muhammad Asad

But since the end of the 1970s, at the beginning of the revolution in Iran under Khomenei, we have experienced a politicization of Islam.…

— Alice Schwarzer

The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.

— Otto Schily

“The answer lay not in faith but in another factor that created trouble for Islam from the very beginning: political power.”

— Mustafa Akyol

“A common error of western commentators who seek to interpret Islamism sympathetically is to view it as a form of localised resistance to globalisation.…

— John Gray