Arab world Quote by Tariq Ramadan

In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it…

— Youssou N'Dour

Progressives and Islamists are indeed on the same side. Their common disdain for Christianity explains why left-wing judges in America find any inkling of…

— Gary Bauer

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

— Hisham Melhem

“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

“As award-winning British journalist Melanie Phillips writes, “The correspondences between Western progressives and Islamists are really quite remarkable. Both are attempting to create utopias…

— Mary Poplin

If we look at Abdel Nasser in Egypt as an Arab leader, he was secular.

— Maajid Nawaz

I'm a Palestinian-Muslim, but I'm also a progressive.

— Linda Sarsour

Muslim societies must leave behind these dual aspects: secularism/Islamism.

— Tariq Ramadan

“From the eighth or ninth centuries, Muslim Arabs have been politically dominant in the Islamic world and have grown accustomed to that position; the…

— Benny Morris

“The secularizing 'values' and events that have been predicted would happen in the Muslim world have now begun to unfold with increasing momentum and…

— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

“Arab nationalism in its traditional form was the way in which secular Arab Christians like Edward had found and kept a place for themselves,…

— Christopher Hitchens