#slam

What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don't think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism is. ↗

— Brad Thor

#above #angered #any #anything #bothered

The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#between #consciousness #contemporary #contemporary world #crying

The Muslims wanted to reign over the whole of Mostar, then gain ground to the sea and finally create an Islamic state. That is what our Croatians defend themselves against. ↗

— Franjo Tudjman

#create #defend #finally #gain #ground

The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made, and the poor judgment, and what I allowed to happen to the animals. And, you know, it's no way of explaining the hurt and the guilt that I felt. And that was the reason I cried so many nights. ↗

— Michael Vick

#cried #day #decision #door #explaining

The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#democracy #incompatible #islam #legitimate #majority

Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam. ↗

— Abdurrahman Wahid

#between #culture #differentiate #first #important

If we pulled out of Iraq tomorrow, Islamic jihadism is on the rise. And they continue, as we see in Lebanon, to seek to destroy the State of Israel and seek to drive America back and bring us to our knees. We must stand tall and straight. ↗

— Zach Wamp

#back #bring #continue #destroy #drive

O Allah, You know me better than I know myself, and I know myself better than these people who praise me. Make me better than what they think of me, and forgive those sins of mine of which they have no knowledge, and do not hold me responsible for what they say. ↗

— Abu Bakr al-Siddiq

#forgivness #hope #islam #love #prayer

To be able to hold all four majors - the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, PGA - all concurrently I think is the Grand Slam. But a lot of people have a different opinions on that. People think you have to win it in the same calendar year. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#british #british open #calendar #concurrently #different

I used slam dunking as a tool for intimidation. ↗

— Dominique Wilkins

#intimidation #slam #tool #used