Born Quote by Sabaa Tahir

My father's from Pakistan and he has been a secularist all his life. In the Pakistani context, there's no messing with religion. There's been…

— Sadakat Kadri

My mother was a Muslim and dad a Hindu. I got the best upbringing that anyone could. Never did I see any angst in…

— Mahesh Bhatt

Religiosity is suffocating in Pakistan. It invariably stokes the fire in driving society to religious extremism.

— Asma Jahangir

“Religion was the glue of Pakistan, holding the halves together; just as consciousness, the awareness of oneself as a homogenous entity in time, a…

— Salman Rushdie

Religiosity amongst younger Muslims is not about following their parents' cultural traditions, but rather, their interest in religion is more politicized.

— Munira Mirza

“If you feel trapped in the religion of your upbringing, it would be worth asking yourself how this came about. The answer is usually…

— Richard Dawkins

I was born to a Hindu father and Muslim mother on Christmas day. You can't get more secular than that.

— Nagma

“I have grown up listening to my grandparents’ stories about ‘the other side’ of the border. But, as a child, this other side didn’t…

— Aanchal Malhotra

Culture is religion incarnate.

— Charles Colson

I'm a second-generation migrant. My parents came to this country from Pakistan, just like the Windrush generation.

— Sajid Javid

I grew up in a family in which there was very little religion. My father wasn't religious at all. But he was really interested…

— Salman Rushdie

I was born Muslim, but for a large part of my life, I wasn't necessarily raised Muslim. My father always kept everything around us,…

— Lupe Fiasco