If you prostrate yourself to an all-powerful and unfathomable being five times a day, if you are constantly told that you live in the world of Satan, if those around you are ignorant of and impervious to literature, art, historical debate, and all that nurtures the values of Western civilization, your mind becomes susceptible to […]
Islam Quotes
Muslim Theology offers, up to present, no systemetic formulation of a status of being a minority
The terrorists who profess the name of Allah and proclaim jihad are operating squarely within the Islamic tradition. Indeed they are performing what Islam has typically held to be a religious duty. Of course it could be pointed out that there are millions of Muslims who do not agree with this view of Islam. They […]
Our purpose here is to give you news of what we have just done, to inform you of the utter catastrophe that has befallen you… You would have seen your knights prostrate beneath the horses’ hooves, your houses stormed by pillagers and ransacked by looters… You would have seen the crosses in your churches smashed, […]
My problem is not with Islam, it’s with the culture of patriarchy.
To those who claim to speak for Islam but who would deny to women our place in society, I say: The ethos of Islam is equality, equality between the sexes… Islam forbids injustice; injustice against people, against nations, against women… The fundamental ethos of Islam is tolerance, dialogue, and democracy.
I look at wearing a hijab as liberating. It protects my dignity. I don’t have to worry about looking good and doing my hair all up just to impress others.
Anything a dog touches must be washed seven times, the final time in dust.
Christianity’s record is indisputably spotted. But standing in eternal reproof of that record, crying hypocrisy and betrayal, is Christianity itself, quitessentially embodied in the example of Jesus. In the case of Islam, the charge of hypocrisy hardly applies–certainly not on the matter of religious violence. To put the issue at its starkest, there is simply […]
The earth is flat, and anyone who disputes this claim is an atheist who deserves to be punished.
