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But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#contaminate #countries #democracy #designed #ideas

Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#arab #being #benefit #calculations #destroyed

Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#alone #believe #comes #god #muslims

Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#keep #like #media #powers #sheep

If somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking. ↗

— Martin Bashir

#asking #keep #prepared #question #somebody

Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image. ↗

— Martin Bashir

#behind #curiosity #determination #each #get

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ↗

— Matsuo Basho

#moon #nothing #see #think #you

Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought. ↗

— Matsuo Basho

#footsteps #men #old #seek #sought

I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.' ↗

— Count Basie

#announce #basie #beware #biggest #business

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life. ↗

— Count Basie

#big #business #doing #i #life