Muslim Quotes: Inspirational Words from the Islamic Faith (Page 4)

"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

"And we know there has been horrendous loss of life and suffering and we know that there is anger. Anyone who came anywhere near the general election in constituencies with a substantial Muslim population knows that"

Clare Short, Politician

"There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization"

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President

"The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marathon of political, economic and human development. For that, there is a tendency to blame others as the primary cause"

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President

"Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism"

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President

"But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise"

Barbara Walters, Journalist

"Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims, but it's also the language of the Hindus"

Ismail Merchant, Producer

"Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it the right thing to do? The answer is no. And most Americans, and most moderate Muslims, join with me in that call"

Kilari Anand Paul, Priest

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

Hamid Karzai, Statesman

"Even as we pour hundreds of billions of dollars into our efforts in the Middle East, there is much that needs to be done to win the war of ideas in the Muslim world and beyond"

Herb Kohl, Politician

"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, Activist

"A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you"

Geena Davis, Actress

"We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage"

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Politician

"And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first"

Bjorn Ulvaeus, Musician

"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, Activist

"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

"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

"We must remember, too, that the Russian population of the Caucasus are to a large extent Muslims, and the areas such as Georgia which have aspirations of their own"

Aly Khan, Public Servant

"In spite of this fact, the Western powers have never given sufficient importance to the Muslim world. They have always been inclined to treat it as a big backward and lethargic child"

Aly Khan, Public Servant

"I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society"

Natan Sharansky, Writer

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