Alternatives Quote by Tariq Ramadan

Throughout the Arab and Islamic world the feeling is that we are now in top gear for a war of civilizations, a clash of…

— Husain Haqqani

The Arab rulers are basically unpopular. They are supported by the United States against the wishes of their people. In all of this rather…

— Edward Said

There can be no political reform and democracy in any Arab country without accepting that political Islam is a part of it.

— Jamal Khashoggi

Arab nationalism, which tended to be until relatively recent somewhat secular in motivation, has now become increasingly religious and fundamentalist. And that makes it…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

— Ban Ki-moon

The fact that this organisation is called the Islamic State reveals something even deeper. In fact, it implies that every single Islamist party in…

— Tariq Ramadan

The unimaginable brutality of this latest manifestation of Political Islam in the Arab world is too much to bear for many Muslim Arab

— Hisham Melhem

So much of what we see and hear about the Middle East focuses on what we call politics, which is essentially ideology. But when…

— Annia Ciezadlo

“The Jihadist mindset and unfailing commitment is to replace every single national government in the world with a Muslim government, with Sharia law replacing…

— John Price

“All these complexities are lost on many commentators, often the same ones who would single out the Arabs for being Arabs; now there is…

— Jean-Pierre Filiu

Most Arabs and Muslims feel that the United States hasn't really been paying much attention to their desires. They think it has been pursuing…

— Edward Said

I think no country is going to be immune from the Arab awakening because the Arab awakening is driven by deep human longing for…

— Thomas Friedman