The media often give an uncharacteristic perception of some other cultures and religions, and Islam in particular because it's the unusual, extreme, odd stuff that is kind of newsworthy. Sometimes, people of Islam feel that they're getting painted with a brush that represents only a few.
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Related As a result of that, America desires a moderate Islam; an Islam that America can control; an Islam t... LOUIS FARRAKHAN Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside re... SALMAN RUSHDIE I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. People have been saying that there have been some Muslim youth that have an extremist understanding ... ABDUL HAQ It is often said that Islam is an egalitarian religion. There is much truth in this assertion. If we... BERNARD LEWIS It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev... ELIZABETH TAYLOR Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches ... JELLO BIAFRA Moderate’ Muslims, and apologists and propagandists for Islam, will attempt to deny or obscure the... BRIGITTE GABRIEL You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Orkney has the kind of landscape that sort of lends itself to a relationship with the people. I thin... DIANA GABALDON Tinder, sucks… few matches I got.... How FUCKING odd is that. DEYTH BANGER Prime Minister Blair has indicated an interest in discussing the matter of the development of Islam ... YUSRIL IHZA MAHENDRA My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of I... SHIRIN EBADI Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Isl... ABDURRAHMAN WAHID You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what ... ANNIE BESANT We're not fighting Islam, or any particular form of Islam. We're fighting terrorism. BRENT SCOWCROFT I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hat... AASIF MANDVI We feel great rage at the continued attacks on Islam and the Prophet of Islam and we demand that the... NAFEZ AZZAM Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was ... CARROLL QUIGLEY The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world h... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Regardless of what I think about Islam or Wicca or any other religion, the fact is that it's a group... JIM BUTCHER She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some feel the perception of spam as an annoyance has decreased because of filters and because people... CLAUDIA SARROCCO I've always maintained there is no incompatibility between Islam and democracy. The Europeans in... BEJI CAID ESSEBSI Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha... JEFFREY R. ANDERSON I see no difference between Islam and Islamism. Islam is defined as submission to the will of Allah,... AYAAN HIRSI ALI I think there's a perception that living with HIV is kind of like managing diabetes or some other di... JEFFREY REYNOLDS To the representatives of theoretical Islam, i.e. Islamic fundamentalists, the Jews, the Christians,... ABHIJIT NASKAR Some of the nicest people I met with in Africa were members of the Nation of Islam. You have to beli... TUCKER CARLSON Is this the way of life that Islam teaches us? That we fight amongst ourselves and feel scared of fe... PERVEZ MUSHARRAF I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand... GARY F EVANS... The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I draw a distinction between traditional Islam and Islamism. Islamism emerged in its modern form in ... DANIEL PIPES I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Isla... ANNIE BESANT Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most d... ABDOLKARIM SOROUSH There is a very small group of Muslims that have an agenda of violence and that is what is portrayed... DR. AHMED N. ELREFAI She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered abo... JOHN KEEGAN Muslims are not bloodthirsty people. Islam is a religion of peace that forbids the killing of the in... ABDULLAH OF SAUDI ARABIA Let your little inspire someone greatly and greatly be the reasons for the smiles of someone in litt... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Let your little inspires someone greatly and greatly be the reasons for the smiles of someone in lit... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from th... E. O. WILSON After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially American... ABDOLKARIM SOROUSH I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Had Elijah Muhammad tried to introduce an orthodox form of Arab-oriented Islam, I doubt if he would ... JOHN HENRIK CLARKE Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisa... AYAAN HIRSI ALI We deeply respect all religions, including Islam, and it is important for me to tell you that the Da... ANDERS FOGH RASMUSSEN The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had b... NAJAT VALLAUD-BELKACEM Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA They're trying to inject the Nation of Islam as some kind of a buzz word into this. MARK GERAGOS People have to understand that rioting and attacking embassies and those doing violence because of t... ICGKC PRESIDENT SHAHIR SAHI early modern Christianity is often portrayed as an essentially European religion. This is regrettabl... THOMAS C. ODEN Few remember that Trump was among the first in the country to recognize the danger of radical Islam. ROGER STONE Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU These other ones are ruining it for them all, because they are all getting painted with the same bru... BARBARA HUGHES The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Isl... JOHN HENRIK CLARKE Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in place... MUHAMMAD ALI Islam will be what Muslims make of it. And it is the sum total of the interpretation that Muslims gi... MAAJID NAWAZ He had what he called just a small ration of tools: A painted book. A handful of pencils.<... MARKUS ZUSAK Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. BRIAN JACQUES Between the natural way and the path of grace there is a deep abyss. It is in that gap that we live ... HAIM SHAPIRA It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a g... ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI I had been fascinated with Islam since college - particularly how it could inspire such fervor in ou... BRAD THOR I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and division... YUSUF ISLAM Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable. ABU BAKAR BASHIR Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON I wish I was home", She said miserably. She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN While Islam is projected today as inimical and hostile to Christianity, Judaism and other Religions,... YUSUF ISLAM Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the... ABDOLKARIM SOROUSH
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