Quotes of Muslim - somelinesforyou

“ It is not Iran, it cannot be an Islamic society. ”

- Jalal Talabani

“ Black, white, muslim or jew, see if your foot fits the other mans shoe. ”

- Marc Drake

“ Christians and Muslims who live together should try to meet and dialogue to refute the talk about a clash of civilizations. ”

- Dionigi Tettamanzi

“ The administration's solicitude for Muslim sensitivities might well have been interpreted by many Muslims as a vindication of bin Laden's methods. ”

- Richard Perle

“ I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being. ”

- Hamid Karzai

“ September 11 was a wake-up call for Muslims. It is not about East versus West. It is a conflict within Islam. We are the next target for extremists. ”

- King Abdullah of Jordan

“ You can't walk through a neighborhood in most Muslim communities without being exposed to a street, school or stadium honoring a terrorist. Gaza alone has more than 300 streets named for shahids. ”

- Suzanne Fields

“ The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society. ”

- Roy Hattersley

“ If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now. ”

- Salman Rushdie

“ If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America. ”

- Eldridge Cleaver

“ When a disciple from the wildcat religious asylum comes marching forth, get under the bed. It doesn't matter whether he's a Christian, Hindu, Jew or Muslim. ”

- Mark Twain

“ A Muslim who meets with others and shares their burdens is better than one who lives a life of seclusion and contemplation. ”

- Prophet Mohammad

“ Fundamentalism as it is called is not confined to the Muslim world. It is something that we have seen in different parts of the world. Let us hope that a dialogue between the followers of the three great monotheistic religions could help in putting an end to this. ”

- King Hussein I

“ If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that. ”

- George Carey

“ The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue. ”

- Arnold J. Toynbee

“ I have to be honest with you. Islam is on very thin ice with me…Through our screaming self-pity and our conspicuous silences, we Muslims are conspiring against ourselves. We're in crisis and we're dragging the rest of the world with us. If ever there was a moment for an Islamic reformation, it's now… ”

- Irshad Manji

“ I have condemned Khomeini's fatwa to kill Salman Rushdie as a breach of international relations and as an assault on Islam as we know it in the era of apostasy. I believe that the wrong done by Khomeini towards Islam and the Muslims is no less than that done by the author himself… ”

- Naguib Mahfouz

“ Of course there is a huge in our material welfare, religious upbringing, and things like that. But things like your family, your house, your children's education, your hope for the future, are things that throughout the Muslim world they would share very easily with their counterparts in America. ”

- Michael Palin

“ I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam. ”

- King Hussein I

“ Whether one is Hindu or a Muslim or a Christian, how you live your life is proof that you are or not fully His. We cannot condemn or judge or pass words that will hurt people. We don't know in what way God is appearing to that soul and what God is drawing that soul to; therefor, who are we to condemn anybody? ”

- Harold Ross

“ As a Muslim, I know that my faith reveres all monotheistic religions. It completes God's message to mankind to live together in friendship and dignity, at a time when Islam, Christianity and Judaism, in many parts of the world, present an image which is totally alien to the spirit in which they were meant: the teachings of God in terms of tolerance and mutual respect. ”

- King Hussein I

“ The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a warning that must be heeded if we are to preserve the society. ”

- Andrew Goodman

“ How extraordinary that so many men and women who are not Catholic felt themselves bound together in mourning with collective memory a religious man who transcended parochial appeal. Not many men journey across the human stage as such a figure of unity… ”

- Suzanne Fields

“ If we are to continue to try and force the square pegs of secular democracy and Western culture into the round wholes of a conservative Muslim society, then we will continue to see escalating resistance and escalating allied violence to contain that insurgency. ”

- Amir Butler

“ The Holy Prophet Mohammed came into this world and taught us: 'That man is a Muslim who never hurts anyone by word or deed, but who works for the benefit and happiness of God's creatures. Belief in God is to love one's fellow men.'. ”

- Abdul Ghaffar Khann
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