Atheism Quote by Tariq Ali

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 and father were born and raised in Pakistan, where religion is entrenched in the culture and the culture is explicitly unyielding.

— Sabaa Tahir

“The charm offensive was complemented by the work of a number of Islamic intellectuals with strong links to the Egyptian Islamic movement in general…

— Tarek Osman

“To read an expert contribution on growing up Muslim in America by Abdu Murray, a lawyer, apologist, former Shia Muslim, and author of two…

— Nabeel Qureshi

I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My…

— Taslima Nasrin

Shortly after he became the first Muslim to attend cabinet, I urged Sadiq Khan to be prepared. The Islamophobes, the new McCarthyites, would at…

— Mehdi Hasan

“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

“MOHAMMED’S BIOGRAPHER He was an evangelical pastor, but not for long. Religious orthodoxy was not for him. An open-minded man, a passionate polemicist, he…

— Eduardo Galeano

Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course…

— Benazir Bhutto

No one's just Muslim or just Pakistani or just a 16-year-old kid from Jersey City.

— Iman Vellani

Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.

— Mohsin Hamid

“I passed by General Zia's tomb and knew that I never would have become Muslim if I was raised in this country [Pakistan]. As…

— Michael Muhammad Knight