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The common argument is that it clearly contradicts the Koran, which says there should not be compulsion in religion.


Khaled Abou El Fadl

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KHALED HOSSEINI Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
KHALED HOSSEINI It hurts to say that,” he said, shrugging. “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted w...
KHALED HOSSEINI And I wrote you.
Volumes.
Volumes.
KHALED HOSSEINI Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not,
Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not.
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KHALED HOSSEINI J’aurais dû être plus gentille—I should have been more kind. That is something a person will n...
KHALED HOSSEINI It was you Nabi.
It was always you.
Didn't you know?
KHALED HOSSEINI I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.
DJ KHALED Good news equals good day
KHALED BESROUR Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end…crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty c...
KHALED HOSSEINI They will explain four main things: who our Prophet is, what Islam is all about, freedom of expressi...
AMR KHALED The reasonable among us must be heard and our voices must come out clearer than the voices of the ex...
AMR KHALED The Danish government should do a lot of things. The government should apologize.
AMR KHALED Dialogue and many practical common projects are more important. We came here to build bridges but it...
AMR KHALED We feel there are forces of extremism which are aiming to light fires and transform Denmark from a p...
AMR KHALED Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
KHALED HOSSEINI Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
KHALED HOSSEINI Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful...
KHALED HOSSEINI It's safe to say headphones is a good business.
DJ KHALED Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say a...
KHALED HOSSEINI You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.
KHALED HOSSEINI it always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk.
KHALED HOSSEINI Tell your secret to the wind, but don’t blame it for telling the trees.
KHALED HOSSEINI At times , he didn't understand the meaning of the Koran's words . But he said he liked the enhancin...
KHALED HOSSEINI Regret... when it comes to you, I have oceans of it.
KHALED HOSSEINI Give sustenance, Allah.
Give sustenance to me.
KHALED HOSSEINI I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.
DJ KHALED You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is...
KHALED HOSSEINI There is a way to be good again...
KHALED HOSSEINI I was greatly encouraged to launch this initiative after 93 per cent of some 80,000 Muslim youths po...
AMR KHALED When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of ...
KHALED HOSSEINI I say enough to the truce.
KHALED MASHAAL One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swel...
KHALED HOSSEINI The cities, the roads, the countryside, the people I meet - they all begin to blur. I tell myself I ...
KHALED HOSSEINI This of course is a big sum, and it is bigger than what Arab summits in Amman and Beirut had approve...
KHALED MESHAAL I'll put it on my table where I keep my drawings," Hassan said.
His saying that made me kind of...
KHALED HOSSEINI No one snaps our composure quite like someone we love.
KHALED HOSSEINI I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing!
KHALED HOSSEINI It is illogical for the victim to be pressed to recognize its murderer and occupier. What is require...
KHALED MESHAAL Too much beauty, it corrupts things.
KHALED HOSSEINI