Adapted Quote by Shereen El Feki

I draw a distinction between traditional Islam and Islamism. Islamism emerged in its modern form in the 1920s and is driven by a belief…

— Daniel Pipes

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

— Edward Said

As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.

— Barack Obama

There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created the idea…

— Mustafa Akyol

Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.

— Maajid Nawaz

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

Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous…

— Salman Rushdie

It is difficult to generalize about Islam. To begin with, the word itself is commonly used with two related but distinct meanings, as the…

— Bernard Lewis

Islam is not a religion, but an imperialist ideology like communism or fascism.

— Geert Wilders

Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.

— Youssou N'Dour

Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims for itself,…

— Christopher Hitchens

The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came…

— Aly Khan