When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that Islam itself was only an aggressive raid against the old and ordered civilization in these parts. I do not say it in mere hostility to the religion of Mahomet; I […]
Islam Quotes
Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends his son to die for you.
Many proofs of high cultural level of the Ottoman Empire during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent are to be found in the development of science and law; in the flowering of literary works in Arabic, Persian and Turkish; in the contemporary monuments in Istanbul, Bursa, and Edirne; in the boom in luxury industries; in […]
Holy war (Jihad) is an Arabic virtue, and a divine obligation: the Muslim is always mindful that his religion is a Qur’an and a sword… the Muslim then is forever a warrior.
If you prostrate yourself to an all-powerful and unfathomable being five times a day, if you are constantly told that you live in the world of Satan, if those around you are ignorant of and impervious to literature, art, historical debate, and all that nurtures the values of Western civilization, your mind becomes susceptible to […]
Muslim Theology offers, up to present, no systemetic formulation of a status of being a minority
The terrorists who profess the name of Allah and proclaim jihad are operating squarely within the Islamic tradition. Indeed they are performing what Islam has typically held to be a religious duty. Of course it could be pointed out that there are millions of Muslims who do not agree with this view of Islam. They […]
Our purpose here is to give you news of what we have just done, to inform you of the utter catastrophe that has befallen you… You would have seen your knights prostrate beneath the horses’ hooves, your houses stormed by pillagers and ransacked by looters… You would have seen the crosses in your churches smashed, […]
My problem is not with Islam, it’s with the culture of patriarchy.
To those who claim to speak for Islam but who would deny to women our place in society, I say: The ethos of Islam is equality, equality between the sexes… Islam forbids injustice; injustice against people, against nations, against women… The fundamental ethos of Islam is tolerance, dialogue, and democracy.
