Muslim Quotes

"Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims"

"The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy"

Gijs de Vries, Politician

"Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact"

Gijs de Vries, Politician

"This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor"

Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist

"They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses"

Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist

"Muslim organisations tend to have a low level of organisation. The communities in Europe are quite diverse"

Gijs de Vries, Politician

"The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with"

Alija Izetbegovic, Activist

"I would have to have people totally committed to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of this United States. And many of the Muslims, they are not totally dedicated to this country. They are not dedicated to our Constitution. Many of them are trying to force Sharia law on the people of this country"

Herman Cain, Businessman

"People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities"

Amartya Sen, Philosopher

"I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over"

Will Smith, Actor

"For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"Many Muslims honor people of other faiths and do not kill"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people"

Peter King, Politician

"But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans"

Peter King, Politician

"Well if done a lot of hard work to try and get people to act rationally, the fact that weve had 15 deviant Muslims, plus 5 or 8 others that got away does not mean that all Muslims are deviant or extremists"

Lee Kuan Yew, Statesman

"For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome"

Ron Kind, Politician

"US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan"

Daniel Barenboim, Musician

"This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"A foreign ideology cannot be introduced into Chechnya - were it through an Arab or al-Qaeda. Our experience is rich and long enough for us to be Muslims and know what jihad is"

Aslan Maskhadov, Politician

"At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years"

Juan Cole, Educator

"Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism"

Linda Chavez, Author

"We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood"

King Abdullah II, Statesman

"I think there has been a lack of full cooperation from too many people in the Muslim community"

Peter King, Politician

"And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz"

Peter King, Politician

"The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many"

David Wilkerson, Clergyman

"The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events"

Cat Stevens, Musician

"On this land, Muslims, Christians and Jews can coexist together, as they have - as they had for the - for hundreds of years in the framework of a democratic state"

Hassan Nasrallah, Revolutionary

"Among them, there were Muslims, Christians, and Jews living together. But then violent organizations came, bringing with them many large groups of people from various parts of the world to Palestine"

Hassan Nasrallah, Revolutionary

"Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities"

Cat Stevens, Musician

"Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam"

Cat Stevens, Musician

"It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice"

Cat Stevens, Musician

"I've studied various schools of thought... I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohibited, but I've found a lot of evidence from the life of the Prophet to show that he allowed certainly, but even encouraged, music at certain times"

Cat Stevens, Musician

"I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful"

Cat Stevens, Musician

"Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to"

Cat Stevens, Musician

"The Muslim world is deeply hurt by the campaign of violence initiated against our Palestinian brothers"

Ahmet Necdet Sezner, President

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