Did you ever read the Koran? I recommend it. What the Koran teaches people is aggression; and what we (Christians) teach our people is peace… Christianity aspires to peace and love. Islam is a religion that attacks. If you start teaching aggression to the whole community, you end up pandering to the negative elements in […]
Islam Quotes
Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.
America finds itself facing an ideological enemy that may turn out harder to defeat that Islam: that is to say, anti-Americanism, which is presently taking the world by storm.
The Saudis couldn’t even organize the hajj safely… At the stoning ritual, I watched little girls fall under the crowds of pilgrims: Turks shoving Arabs, Africans shoving Indians until each day a few more pilgrims were trampled to death. The next day I would read of the incident in the Saudi Times (Fourteen Pilgrims Killed […]
A rugged, strife-torn and mountaineering people were suddenly turned into an indomitable Arab force, which achieved a series of splendid victories unparalleled in the history of nations, for in the short space of ninety years that mighty range of Saracenic conquest embraced a wider extent of territory than Rome had mastered in the course of […]
Our use of phrase ‘The Dark ages’ to cover the period from 699 to 1,000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe. To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view. From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to Christendom at this time […]
In the Muslim community, the holy war is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the (Muslim) mission and (the obligation to) convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force. Therefore caliphate and royal authority are united (in Islam), so that the person in charge can devote the available strength to both […]
I got to watch a lot of Egyptian TV, owing to a miscalculation in my attempt at cultural understanding. I’d arrived in Egypt in early December, in the middle of Ramadan. Not that Ramadan itself is hard to understand. It’s a kind of Lent or extended Yom Kippur, with fasting from sunrise to sunset. Nothing […]
I would like to say to the young men formed in our Muslim civilisation that it is highly improbable that they can value liberty – by which I mean, relating to another person as an act of free will, whether it be in bed, in erotic play, or in political debates in party cells or […]
In Islam, the legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to God Almighty.
