Australia Quote by Reza Aslan

The sense of Islam as a threatening Other - with Muslims depicted as fanatical, violent, lustful, irrational - develops during the colonial period in…

— Edward Said

After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship…

— Abdolkarim Soroush

I think what we are seeing is a vicious circle: by covering the controversies and the conflicting realities, it creates a much distorted perception…

— Tariq Ramadan

One thing that I feel very, very strongly is that we talk about Islamic countries, Islamic people, Islamic leaders, as either moderates or extremists.…

— David Miliband

The trouble with Islam is deeply rooted in its teachings. Islam is not only a religion. Islam (is) also a political ideology that preaches…

— Wafa Sultan

Within our lifetime, we can remember a time when Islamism wasn't the dominant form of discourse or the aim should be to minimise the…

— Maajid Nawaz

To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding ourselves with…

— Sam Harris

People sometimes have a bad image of Islam but that is an image of what people are doing with Islam.

— Demba Ba

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

I like to question cultural biases wherever I go, and I question Islamophobia as much as I question anti-western sentiment because I think all…

— Elif Safak

A kind of racism still exists in the United States, and Islamophobia is a more convenient way to express that sentiment. There has also…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

There is a dearth of imagination and I think that's an understatement in a modern Muslim world. There is very little willingness to imagine…

— Haroon Moghul