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.
A remarkable feature of Islam is that it gives dignity even to the humblest illiterate peasants. It gives them a certain human dignity which one doesn't find in other societies.
Islam never tells people to go out and kill other people.
Extremism and Islam are completely different things, we strongly demand the immediate release of the Japanese citizens unharmed. . . The international community needs to respond firmly and cooperate without caving into terrorism.
Democracy is a hegemonic tool of the West and contrary to Islam. Why do you act as though the entire world needs democracy? And when it comes to homosexuality, the issue is clearly dealt with by the Koran. It says it is forbidden and should be punished.
Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of war, and most Muslims don't understand the true nature of Islam.
We have to go on until Islam is made as ho-hum as Catholicism.
I'm not talking about reforming #Islam. . it is to reform the #Muslim minds & the Muslim understandings of the texts.
The Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out.
Islam abhors and absolutely condemns terrorism and any terrorist activity.
Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.
Malcolm's X objective was actually to reingratiate himself within the Nation of Islam, that because he had emerged by the early 1960s as a very prominent figure outside of the N. O. I. , there were critics within the organization that were saying to the patriarch of the N. O. I. , the Honorable Elijah Mohammad, that Malcolm planned to take over the organization, which was not true.
The tolerance within the body of Islam was, and is, something without parallel in history; class and race and color ceasing altogether to be barriers.
You ought not to accept the claim that this is a religious practice. I think that's, frankly, problematic for Islam, for well-intentioned Liberals like you to say that this is a religious practice when the overwhelming consensus of Islamic scholars around the world, and the overwhelming majority of Canadian Muslims, believe this has absolutely - that the niqab as face covering, that this symbol of misogyny has nothing to do with Islam.
I do not believe it is right to identify Islam with violence. This is not right or true.
. . . we must learn -once again- to regard Islam as the norm by which the world is to be judged.
I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.
If there's a good side of Islam, at the end of the day it serves evil.
I'm not criticizing how people experience what they might call spirituality. I am interested in looking critically at something else - at how people use their language to articulate theories about something they call religion, to say, for example, that "in Islam religion and politics necessarily go together," or to insist that "violence has no place in religion," to universalize it.
Islam came to teach us that there is no faith without intelligence and here we are: destroying our intelligence in the name of faith.