Caliphs Quote by Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov

If Europe had known as much of Islam, as Muslims knew of Christendom, in those days, those mad, adventurous, occasionally chivalrous and heroic, but…

— Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall

Historically, Islam was hijacked about 20 or 30 years after the Prophet and interpreted in such a way that the ruler has absolute power…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

“In truth, “Arab” terrorism in the Holy Land originated centuries before the recent tool of “the Palestinian cause was invented.” In towns where Jews…

— Hal Lindsey

“The oldest of the three Abrahamic religions, and the clear ancestor of the other two, is Judaism: originally a tribal cult of a single…

— Richard Dawkins

“It has been argued that the hostility of the Arabian Jewish tribes to Mohammed was due to his alliances with dissenting Jewish sects.8 Our…

— Harry Freedman

Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword.

— Steven Runciman

The conflict with Islam has, after all, existed throughout European history.

— Walter Kasper

Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had…

— Carroll Quigley

Let us assume that the Turks in whose ranks Europeans were fighting as well, even in high positions, would have conquered Vienna and Europe…

— Heinrich Himmler

“Islam had, from its earliest days, embraced warfare. Muhammad himself prosecuted a series of military campaigns while subjugating Mecca, and the explosive expansion of…

— Thomas Asbridge

“Judaic monotheism had deeply penetrated Arabia for almost a century before Muhammad declared his revelation in 610 in one of the towns – Makka,…

— Simon Schama