Islam Quotes

Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.

Our leaders today cannot be honest about Islam with us. They will not even use the term "Islamic terrorism," "radical Islam."

The distinction between radical Islam and moderate Muslims is important, as are the differences between Sunnis and Shiites, and between militant and mystical Islam.

I mean, but obviously, in people's eyes, it still - it can still link Islam to terrorism. I mean, why does it make a difference that they're white?

The idea that I had anything to do with speaking about Islam or about the Muslim world was just absurd to my family. ... I hadn't been to the mosque in like 10 years.

The only model to follow is pure Islam.

Islam and democracy can function together.

A society that is not founded on morality falls apart and becomes easy prey to puritan cults such as Islam that on the surface, promote family values and morality.

There is no compulsion in Islam. You convert "voluntarily". But you are free not to convert by accepting subjugation, humiliation, discrimination and constant harassment. What can be more democratic?

I was deeply distressed that the cartoons were seen by many Muslims as an attempt by Denmark to mark and insult or behave disrespectfully towards Islam or the Prophet Mohammed.

In Turkey religion not only affects society but is affected by it, which is why Turkish Islam differs from Arab Islam. It's a more modern, more rational, more self-confident society.

I think Islam is in a sense, in crisis. It needs to question and re-question itself.

Al Qaeda, the Taliban, a whole host of networks that are bent on attacking America, who have a distorted ideology, who have perverted the faith of Islam, and so we have to go after them.

There are so many errors and misstatements in that list that I won't even begin to name them. Obama was right about one thing, though - Islam has always been a part of America's story.

America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists.

We are not at war against Islam.

I was accused of insulting the president, insulting Islam, insulting - spreading rumors, disturbing the peace.

We're not at war with all Muslims, we're at war with a subset of Islam that believes in killing in the name of religion, as jihadis do.

Islam explicitly rejects dictatorship and there are no traditions of the Prophet or passages in the Qur'an which clearly give dictators this support.

It's always been my belief that the victory of Islam will never take place until a Muslim state is established.. in the heart of the Islamic world.

The evil lot who did that thing on September 11 did it because they wanted to create a war between America and Islam. And by invading Iraq, we gave them what they hoped for.

She is Islam, and I am in Love.

Not only did the terrorists hijack planes and destroy life, but they also hijacked the peaceful religion of Islam and split the brother and sisterhood of mankind.

A growing number of Muslims in America, more than 40 percent are African-American

You can't judge Islam by those people any more than you can judge Christians by abortion clinic bombers or white separatists. Love turn to hate at the fringes of any belief system.

Islam does not preach hatred and violence and destruction.

You notice how liberals keep saying, 'If only Islam would have a Reformation' - it can't have one. It says it can't. It's extremely dangerous in that way.

Does the terror threat we're facing grow out of a perversion of Islam, or does it represent and extreme, but durable, strain of the religion.

It seems to me that this debate, whether Islam is a religion of peace or not, really, it's irrelevant for outsiders. It's for Muslims to decide whether it's a religion of peace or not.

If you're a soldier or marine in an Arab country, Islam is the solution. And you need to show respect.

Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.

Sixty-five percent of Americans say they know nothing about either Muhammad or Islam.

There's plenty of other evidence Trump is in sync with the base, including a major survey released that found that 76 percent of Republicans think Islam is incompatible with the American way of life.

This is a problem that Islam has. I called upon Muslim leaders to call out and denounce these murders, these terrorists. Decrying violence isn't enough.

In my opinion, fundamentalist Christians are just as bad as fundamentalist Islam and, at the very core, neither religion is like that.

[Mujahedeen], by the way, don't represent Islam in any formal sense. They're not imams or sheiks. They are self-appointed warriors for Islam.

It's important to understand that violent Islam is only one face of violent religion.

Islam doesn't have a monopoly on violence in Africa. And violence plays a particularly critical role in places where statehood is weak at best, such as the Maghreb.

If the Koran is the soul of Islam, then perhaps the institution of the Muslim family might be described as its body.

Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.

The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history, part of the fundamental, mainstream ideals of Islam.

There is only one Islam, and that is a totalitarian ideology that has no room for anything but Islam.

Islam should be compared to other totalitarian ideologies like Communism or Fascism.

I have travelled a great deal - to Afghanistan, Iran, Egypt - and can very well differentiate between moderate Muslims and Islam.

Iran is obviously part of the problem. They sponsor Hezbollah. They encourage a radical brand of Islam.

The Koran and Islam is about submission, justice and compassion. All people of the "book" - which means the Torah, Koran and Bible are accorded equal respect under Islam.

Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all stem from the same Abrahamic roots. All three reject terrorism.

I mean there is an assumption made that Islam is about submission, and I think that the submission that we have is to God.

Palestinians were religious in many ways, but they did not subscribe to political Islam, historically.

America is not at war with Islam. And it is a mistake and it plays into the hands of the terrorists to act as though we are.