Islam Quotes: Inspiring Wisdom from the Quran and Hadiths (Page 3)

"My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam"

Shirin Ebadi, Lawyer

"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

"I made the film to bring the story of Islam, the story of 700 million of people, to the West"

Moustapha Akkad, Director

"The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam"

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Statesman

"Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so"

Jack Schwartz, Scientist

"I mean, in general, the danger is from Oriental faiths and Islam"

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Politician

"Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword"

Steven Runciman, Historian

"We have to fight radical Islam wherever it exists. It's in Afghanistan, it's in Saudi Arabia, throughout the Middle-East in big numbers and it's in the United States"

Tom Tancredo, Politician

"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

"The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam"

John Cornyn, Politician

"The bombers were enemies of Islam and enemies of the country. We will do everything and anything needed to stop them"

Khaleda Zia, Statesman

"We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam"

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Politician

"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

"The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both"

John Cornyn, Politician

"North Eurasia is one of the best examples of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence of Islam and Christianity. This is a rare thing in today's world, even in its most liberal parts"

Nursultan Nazarbayev, 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

"I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world"

Peter Jennings, Journalist

"The terrorists whatever slogans they use have nothing in common with Islam"

Nursultan Nazarbayev, Politician

"Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity"

Jermaine Jackson, Musician

"Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody"

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Politician

"I support this war on terror and the war on radical Islam"

Dana Rohrabacher, Politician

"The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life"

Aly Khan, Public Servant

"All people hope Islam helps everything in life. Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam will make everything"

Ahmed Ali

"The idea is that they wouldn't want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So that's what we are doing here"

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Politician

"It is not necessary to dwell on the political and social principles of Islam, to underline how close they also are in spirit to the concepts of human rights which govern the political and social systems of the West"

Aly Khan, Public Servant

"In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law"

Aly Khan, Public Servant

"We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is"

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Politician

"It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things"

Billy Connolly, Comedian

"I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace"

Muhammad Ali, Athlete

"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, Historian

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