Civilization Quote by Rene Girard

In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it…

— Youssou N'Dour

The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims.

— Hamza Yusuf

“Two diametrically opposed points of view concerning religion in the West are to bee seen among Muslims. Some consider all Westerners to be Christians,…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

I think confronted with the modern world or with the rest of the world, I think people are becoming aware that the Western and…

— Bernard Lewis

Muslim societies must leave behind these dual aspects: secularism/Islamism.

— Tariq Ramadan

It is true that the Muslim world is not totally mistaken when it reproaches the West of Christian tradition of moral decadence and the…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.

— Dennis Prager

Islam takes advantage of two structural flaws that exist in the Western society. One is political correctness and other is the decline of morality.

— Ali Sina

Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware of ourselves…

— Alan Watts

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

“secular, pluralistic, Western culture? There are several other “pressure points” at which our culture in the West is vulnerable to challenge. Western culture longs…

— Timothy Keller

I think my love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam…

— Richard Dawkins