#muslim world

Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect. ↗

— James Buchan

#baghdad #been #british #creeping #decline

Even as we pour hundreds of billions of dollars into our efforts in the Middle East, there is much that needs to be done to win the war of ideas in the Muslim world and beyond. ↗

— Herb Kohl

#billions #dollars #done #east #efforts

The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#muslim #muslim world #religious #secular #threatened

Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers. ↗

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#muslim #muslim world #poorest #powers #today

Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka. ↗

— James Buchan

#bombings #during #east #europe #exclusive

In spite of this fact, the Western powers have never given sufficient importance to the Muslim world. They have always been inclined to treat it as a big backward and lethargic child. ↗

— Aly Khan

#backward #been #big #child #fact

Fundamentalism as it is called is not confined to the Muslim world. It is something that we have seen in different parts of the world. Let us hope that a dialogue between the followers of the three great monotheistic religions could help in putting an end to this. ↗

— King Hussein I

#called #confined #could #dialogue #different

I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years. ↗

— Juan Cole

#lived #muslim #muslim world #world #years

I want to have a president in the U.S. who tries to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world. ↗

— Imran Khan

#i #minds #muslim #muslim world #president

US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan. ↗

— Daniel Barenboim

#blue #commitments #declarations #face #make