The difference must be distinguished between worship and respect. Islam orders you to obey and respect, as long as you are not worshiping anything other than God... Islam is a religion of peace. You don't attack. You explain.
Hakeem Olajuwon
Related Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay ma... JACK KEROUAC Muslims are not bloodthirsty people. Islam is a religion of peace that forbids the killing of the in... ABDULLAH OF SAUDI ARABIA If you make anything a higher priority than God, you are worshiping it and not God. JIM GEORGE I believe we don't need to widen the divide between the West and Islam. Rather, we need to build... SHIRIN NESHAT I see no difference between Islam and Islamism. Islam is defined as submission to the will of Allah,... AYAAN HIRSI ALI While no Muslim worthy of his name would lose his respect for God, the Prophet Muhammad, and other s... MUSTAFA AKYOL Islam is a religion of peace and it has lived in peace and harmony with other faiths for centuries a... KHURSHEED KASURI My one thing is respect. I don't care about anything else. You should respect everyone around yo... CHARLI XCX If you don't respect me you're not gonna get that respect back. DAVID HASSELHOFF You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect mon... YAYA TOURE When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You do... NAS I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Is... P. J. O'ROURKE I respect you as my king, and I respect you as my father, but I do not respect you as a man! REBECCA MCKINSEY Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name,... FEISAL ABDUL RAUF My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, becaus... SHAKIRA I'm as loyal as anyone and will do anything for people I respect. But if you don't give that... ERIC WEDDLE If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse ... DENNIS PRAGER To try to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy is absolutely crazy. Islam has no understanding of the ... STANLEY HAUERWAS A film has to be for commercial success as well as earn you respect as an artist. You don't want... SAIF ALI KHAN If you create something, you don't want someone else to go and profit from it; you have your rig... KIM DOTCOM As a result of that, America desires a moderate Islam; an Islam that America can control; an Islam t... LOUIS FARRAKHAN When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect ... LAO TZU You do not need to go to any temple or church to worship God. The whole existence is God’s temple.... BANANI RAY You don't tell people who disagree with you they'd be better off somewhere else. And you don... PEGGY NOONAN The very idea that you could have separation between mosque and state from Islam's perspective i... STANLEY HAUERWAS May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect Him as long as He does not circumcise me an... KINKY FRIEDMAN To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash o... SAM HARRIS I've always maintained there is no incompatibility between Islam and democracy. The Europeans in... BEJI CAID ESSEBSI It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it. FINLEY PETER DUNNE You must understand how shameful it is for us that a Muslim would become a Christian. If other peopl... ABDUL RAUF One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all ... JILL SCOTT The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take... CHARLES BUKOWSKI You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But yo... DAVE EGGERS We deeply respect all religions, including Islam, and it is important for me to tell you that the Da... ANDERS FOGH RASMUSSEN ISIS is very similar to the Kharijites, who were a toxic off-shoot of Islam. It's not Islam; it&... HAMZA YUSUF Warning your enemy before you attack him is very much a tradition in Islam. MICHAEL SCHEUER Those who say Islam is a warlike religion
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PIERRE BEAUMARCHAIS A double bind is far worse than a straightforward damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't dilemma.... DEBORAH TANNEN I learned my values. It's better to be poor than to be beholden. Wealth is not the object of lif... DANIEL WOODRELL You can do anything as long as you don't stop believing. When it is meant to be, it will be. You... KEKE PALMER There is a perception among Muslims that the U.S. sees Islam as a threat ... which sparks suspicion ... MASDAR MAS'UDI By bestowing generous honors on the diversity of humanity, you are turning adversaries into friends,... MARC GOPIN You earn the respect of your peers that you play against, and they don't trash talk you. LADAINIAN TOMLINSON Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the ack... FEISAL ABDUL RAUF I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace. MUHAMMAD ALI There is this feeling that it's somewhat of an open season on Muslims. If you replace Islam and drop... RABIAH AHMED I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't kn... ANDERSON COOPER If you agree to do a sex scene, you have to be willing to not be awkward about it. C'mon! I don&... AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON If you obey, you will be a brother in religion, and God will pardon the past. AYMAN AL-ZAWAHRI They will explain four main things: who our Prophet is, what Islam is all about, freedom of expressi... AMR KHALED Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most d... ABDOLKARIM SOROUSH In popular culture, there isn't any other conception of Islam and Muslims other than what you se... KUMAIL NANJIANI Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will b... KURT MASUR All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to unde... ABDURRAHMAN WAHID In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say... AARON SISKIND Business is business. If you label it, you limit yourself. Everyone's welcome as long as you treat p... MICHAEL TIERNEY The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicio... PANCHO GONZALES If you can't respect me, you have to respect the law. BLAC CHYNA When you have self-confidence, you will respect yourself and as a result, people will respect you as... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA True worship is to respect others feelings and their religion. DR. MATHIVANAN VELUMANI I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He se... C.S. LEWIS As long as you don't fold up and curl up into a ball, you'll be all right. GIANCARLO STANTON For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don'... LUKE EVANS Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and yo... JACK KEROUAC Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own r... HORATIO NELSON You are not a bad person because you are gay. You are you because you are you and you were meant to ... TEGAN QUIN What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all a... BRAD THOR Women Empowerment Reminder of The Day. Always respect yourself as a woman. You attract what you are,... STEPHANIE LAHART Rejecting Islam is insulting God. We will not allow God to be humiliated. This man must die. ABDUL RAOULF In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Un... C.S. LEWIS Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't eve... JAY-Z Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy ... DANICA MCKELLAR You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. DESMOND TUTU And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different... CRAIG GROESCHEL There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in... RALPH WALDO EMERSON If you say that your national law allows you to do something, it is fine as long as you do this insi... SERGEI LAVROV Islam's not just about covering your hair. It's about how you treat other people. BASSEM YOUSSEF As long as you feel confident, you're going to look beautiful. You don't need to be a stick ... CASSIE SCERBO You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we t... J.K. ROWLING Our religion keeps reminding us that we aren't just will and thoughts. We're also sand and wind and ... WILLIAM LEAST HEAT MOON You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and g... GARY VAYNERCHUK To earn respect, you must earn your own self respect before you can expect others, to respect you. OSCAR AULIQ-ICE It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him. JOSEPH JOUBERT As a manager, you can't be buddies with your employees. You can't reprimand a best buddy. You must c... DR. LYNDA DAHLKE I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pic... JULIA CHILD If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as ... EMINEM Disappointment and Depression are terrorists that kidnap people's original peace for no good reason.... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
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