Acting Quote by Tariq Ramadan

Everywhere the Salafi are pushing by saying, "We are the guardian, and we are resisting any kind of relationship to the West or provocation…

— Tariq Ramadan

“The contrast with many other Sunni Muslim clergymen is stark. Another Syrian mullah, Sheikh Adnan al-Arour, broadcasts regularly from Saudi Arabia with a different…

— Charles Glass

The Sunnis continue to see themselves, possibly for nostalgic reasons, as the most influential group and want a stronger central government - quite unlike…

— Zalmay Khalilzad

Unfortunately, the source of all this conflict between the Sunnis and Shia is some major powers that do not want religious unity amongst Muslims.

— Yousef Saanei

“unique mix of Sunni theology and Shi'ite social traditions.”

— Tarek Osman

Sunnis consider Shias a pack of unwholesome fanatics and Shias consider Sunnis a gang of lukewarm no-goods - there's nothing like religion for spreading…

— Dervla Murphy

Islam and the West have clashed in the past and have not clashed. There is nothing inevitable about it.

— Lawrence Wright

The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam.

— Rand Paul

Religious distinctions are deeply important for many of the problems in today's Middle East, particularly between Sunni and Shia Muslims in Syria and Iraq.

— Max Fisher

Today we're seeing fundamental conflicts within political Islam, with the fundamentalists on the one side and the moderates on the other. Who gains the…

— Zalmay Khalilzad

Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and the west.…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“About 90 percent of the one billion Muslims in the world today identify with the Sunni tradition. Of the remainder, most are Shiites, the…

— Stephen Kinzer