Muslim Quotes

"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

"We will not accept in our country even a single soldier who will attack Muslims or Arabs"

Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Royalty

"Right now we're in the middle of a cultural war between the Muslims and the Western world. The politicians get in the way, but if you put two people together in a room, they can talk it out and work it out, just like Anna and the King"

Sandy Duncan, Musician

"The reality in Iraq is that we are creating new terrorists and severely damaging the public impression of the United States in the Muslim world"

Sherrod Brown, Politician

"If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now"

Salman Rushdie, Novelist

"Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past"

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Politician

"Realize that a Muslim will know that his wife was seen naked in this machine. You know what would be the reaction?... Terrible. I believe there's technology out there that can identify bomb-type materials without necessarily, overly invading our privacy"

Isaac Yeffet

"Yes, we get death threats every week... from the Muslims"

Jack Chick, Cartoonist

"As you look at the flow of Muslim fundamentalism, or fundamentalism in various areas and various religions, they all play on the people who have very little"

James Wolfensohn, Businessman

"All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion"

Abdurrahman Wahid, Statesman

"We seriously suspect the agents of the Americans and Israelis in conducting such horrendous terrorist acts and cannot believe the people who kidnap Philippines nationals, for instance, or behead U.S. nationals are Muslims"

Ayatollah Khamenei, Statesman

"Even if you didn't see the movie, you'd see two words you'd never seen put together before - comedy and Muslim. Comedy is friendly - it's the least offensive word in our language"

Albert Brooks, Actor

"Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve"

Marvin Olasky, Educator

"Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims"

Juan Williams, Journalist

"I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle. We did not forget you. We are still healing another wound in the Muslim nation, which is the occupation of our land by the Americans. Your battle and ours are one and the same"

Mohammed Omar, Clergyman

"Muslims have a very bad attitude to homosexuality, they're very intolerant"

Pim Fortuyn, Politician

"I am not against Muslim schools. But as I believe in integration, I think we would be better off overall if we did not have denominational schools at all"

Frank Dobson, Politician

"There is a racist attack against Muslims and Arabs, Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians in France"

Walid Jumblatt, Politician

"With what's happened in the world the last three years, it's easier to see why it's become popular again to diminish and revile Arabs and Muslims in American popular culture"

Tony Shalhoub, Actor

"This is one of the factors that also made me very much want to make this film, apart from the fact that I loved it. If the boy hadn't been Jewish and the man hadn't been Muslim, it wouldn't have made any difference to the film. I don't think it's relevant, really"

Omar Sharif, Actor

"Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers"

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Statesman

"I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions"

Ahmed Ben Bella, Politician

"All I wanted with that film was to represent the possibility that there might be normal people who are Muslim or Arab with the same fears, responsibilities, hopes"

Tony Shalhoub, Actor

"There is a group of individuals who are radical jihadists. We need to call them by name. They believe it is OK to kill people in the name of their religion. It is not all of Islam. It is not all Muslims. But there is a subgroup who believe it is OK. In fact, it is their plan and design to kill people"

Tim Pawlenty, Politician

"Fundamentally, I believe that the U.S. can improve its international standing and its national security by expanding trade and strengthening its relationships with moderate Muslim countries"

Richard Neal, Politician

"Let me say this: I believe closing Guantanamo is in our Nation's national security interest. Guantanamo is used not only by al-Qaida, but also by other nations, governments, and individuals - people good and bad - as a symbol of America's abuse of Muslims, and it is fanning the flames of anti-Americanism around the world"

Diane Feinstein, Politician

"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, Clergyman

"Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me"

Moustapha Akkad, Director

"Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its products"

Richard Neal, Politician

"Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan"

Jack Schwartz, Scientist

"The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people"

Hamid Karzai, Statesman

"If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity"

Alexander Haig, Public Servant

"Iran is central to our foreign policy in the Middle East, a major player in global energy markets, and a key country in terms of our interaction with the Muslim world"

Howard Berman, Politician

"Typically, in the cities there can be resistance to the gospel or just to Americans, or anybody that's Western. When you get back into the villages, the people are very welcoming. Then when you get into Muslim areas, it definitely gets a little more difficult"

Michael Scott

"We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men"

Jane Harman, Politician

"I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong"

Jermaine Jackson, Musician

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