#islam

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#accused #between #choice #given #heresy

I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#dangerous #does #i #islamic #khomeini

It is my Middle Eastern hat and my attachment to Israel that ultimately inspires my support for Obama. I know he understands that neither Israel nor America can afford four more years of Iran and the radical Islamists gaining strategic leverage in the Middle East. ↗

— Dennis Ross

#america #attachment #east #eastern #four

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#china #intoxication #islam #need #opium

Five years from now, 10 years from now, there's going to be a huge Islamic population in the world, they're going to be nationalistic, they're going to be religious, and they're going to be militant. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#going #huge #islamic #militant #nationalistic

At some point we must realize that actively defending against radical Islamic teachings is not a matter of cultural relativity. It is a matter of universally recognized human rights. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#against #cultural #defending #human #human rights

Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather prurient way, whether I myself or my family have 'ever been threatened' by jihadists. My answer is that yes, I have, and so has everyone else in the audience, if they have paid enough attention to the relevant bin-Ladenist broadcasts to notice the fact. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#islamism #jihadism #osama-bin-laden #personal-questions #terrorism

Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#cover #encounter #fanaticism #forms #fundamentalism

Islam is not man's ultimate justification to do as he pleases--it is, instead, a religion built on reason and evidence. If each of us asks the ustaz for the causes of his religious opinions, then we should, by doing so, help realise the principles of Islam and thus improve intellectual discussion in our own community. ↗

— Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin

#religion #thought #religion

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#buddhism #enlightenment #experience #first-hand #important