Islam Quote by Pankaj Mishra

“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

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

“modernization’ of the 1970s and 1980s, by contrast, unintentionally blended plain Wahhabi Islamism with Western, especially American, popular culture, coexisting in an artificial comfort…

— Tarek Osman

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

— Mohammad Khatami

“For anyone who understood the essence of modernism based on and originating in the secularizing and humanistic tendencies of the European Renaissance, it was…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism

— Jurgen Habermas

“The anti-religious modernism which now threatens Islam and Muslims everywhere can be fully understood only by understanding the religion of the civilization in whose…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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

— Ruhollah Khomeini

“As Islamic liberalism waned, and resistance arose against the West and its influence, that very resistance started to replace genuine religiosity as the basis…

— Mustafa Akyol

“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

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

“There was actually little talk about Islam from the first generation of leaders in Muslim countries. They had distinguished themselves as anti-imperialist activists: Atatürk,…

— Pankaj Mishra