Action Quote by Wadah Khanfar

“The Islamic revolution in Iran is a positive development. At the same time, the Islamic revolution of Afghanistan, sprung exclusively from spiritual roots, dealt…

— Otto Ernst Remer

Muslims have been subjected to so many tyrants and oppressive regimes. That's what the Arab Spring was about, but the problem comes in trying…

— Cat Stevens

“So they did in 1978, a year after Shariati died, under a leader he might have condemned as a very model of clerical despotism…

— Pankaj Mishra

Since Khomeini's death, the popular appeal of an Islamic state - and of fundamentalism - has surely dimmed. Thinkers still debate and warriors kill,…

— Ruhollah Khomeini

The Islamic Revolution of Iran is honourable for it is the cry which has its origin in Ayatollah Khomeini's conscience.

— Ruhollah Khomeini

Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression

— Mohammad Khatami

But since the end of the 1970s, at the beginning of the revolution in Iran under Khomenei, we have experienced a politicization of Islam.…

— Alice Schwarzer

The Arab spring confirmed that peaceful change is possible and so reinforced the vision of political Islam. The impact of this went beyond the…

— Wadah Khanfar

After the revolution of 1979, Iran embarked on a policy of sectarianism. Iran began a policy of expanding its revolution, of interfering with the…

— Adel al-Jubeir

There was not a single Islamic slogan [in Egypt]. It was secular men and women, and in fact, they were unified. Now they want…

— Nawal El Saadawi

“Khomeini espoused a militant religious doctrine rejecting not only the Middle Eastern political order, but also the contemporary international system since both perpetuated an…

— Efraim Karsh

“The Islamic movement in Egypt, from the late 1970s, managed to occupy the political space in the country that had been the domain of…

— Tarek Osman