Absolutely Quote by Stanley Hauerwas

First of all, there's no separation of church and state in the Islamic world. They're one and the same. And so when President Bush…

— Michael Scheuer

And on this issue of the Shia in Iraq, I think there's been a certain amount of, frankly, Terry, a kind of pop sociology…

— William Kristol

I am no proponent of a theocracy. I am a secularist. I want an independent Iraqi government, not a lackey of Tehran.

— Ayad Allawi

Some Iraqi troops aren't willing to fight for their government. But many Shiites appear willing to fight for their religious leaders.

— Richard Engel

Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.

— Dinesh D'Souza

Iraqis don't trust one another, parties and ministries are run by sects and not by functionaries.

— Lawrence Kaplan

If you know anything about Islamic civilization, or about the contemporary Middle East, about the sociology and the anthropology of the people who live…

— Mark Helprin

Extreme Islam is not just an Iraqi or Syrian problem. It is a problem for the Western and industrialized world, too.

— Haim Saban

You notice how liberals keep saying, 'If only Islam would have a Reformation' - it can't have one. It says it can't. It's extremely…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Iraq’s secular regime persecuted and killed Islamic extremists, and al-Qaeda’s leaders abhorred the Iraqi dictator. The distrust was too great to allow even the…

— Joby Warrick

It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.

— H. R. McMaster

Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.

— Ahmed Chalabi