Dangerous Quote by Naguib Mahfouz

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

Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression

— Mohammad Khatami

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

— Ruhollah Khomeini

“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

A good Muslim is not one who is strictest in his judgment, but who is most patient in listening.

— Tariq Ramadan

“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

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.

— Abu Bakr

The Islamic State is dangerous, a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic is even more so.

— Tom Cotton

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

Do you know that Yahya Khan's first victim was not to have been Mujib [ Rahman] but myself? Many people in my party were…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

What we shouldn't do is victimize and target Muslim communities specifically. But as things stand, there's one tribunal which has drawn a lot of…

— Sadakat Kadri