All Quotes

ISIS controls a territory roughly the size of Maryland where 8 million people live. If it's attacked and toppled, who will fill the void?
‐‐ Richard Engel

ISIS has leadership, just like al Qaeda has leadership. It's important to be able to eliminate the individuals that are leading the organization.
‐‐ James Lankford

ISIS has never fought a real battle.
‐‐ Ehud Barak

ISIS is a battle-hardened, highly trained organization that is well-funded. They're one of the strongest armies in the world for their size.
‐‐ John Fleming

ISIS is in many ways a creation of the Syrian regime.
‐‐ Richard Engel

ISIS is luring Americans with empty and false promises that do not reflect reality on the ground in Iraq.
‐‐ Chuck Fleischmann

ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It's a serious problem overseas, but it's confusing and frightening.
‐‐ Joe Biden

ISIS is the greatest threat.
‐‐ Mike McCaul

ISIS itself regularly fuels hatred of gay people and violence towards them. It broadcasts gruesome executions of homosexuals thrown blindfolded from rooftops.
‐‐ George Takei

Islam and democracy can function together.
‐‐ Ali Babacan

Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures.
‐‐ Annie Besant

Islam cannot have a significant presence in Australia if we are to live in an open, secular, and cohesive society. We have seen the destruction it is causing around the world.
‐‐ Pauline Hanson

Islam does not believe in democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, or freedom of assembly. It does not separate religion and politics. It is partly a religion, but it is much more than that. It has a political agenda that goes far outside the realm of religion.
‐‐ Pauline Hanson

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.
‐‐ Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.
‐‐ Jack Schwartz

Islam is a dangerous religion.
‐‐ Michel Houellebecq

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
‐‐ Karen Armstrong

Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.
‐‐ Pat Robertson

Islam is about finding your own space.
‐‐ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.
‐‐ G. Willow Wilson

Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
‐‐ Abu Bakar Bashir

Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.
‐‐ Mary Douglas

Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
‐‐ Muhammad Iqbal

Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.
‐‐ Mohsin Hamid

Islam is not a religion. It's a political system. It has a different set of rules.
‐‐ Paul Nehlen

Islam is perfect, there is nothing to be added or changed.
‐‐ Abu Bakar Bashir

Islam is, to be sure, a big tent, and the one and a half billion Muslims in the world run the gamut from mystical, moderate, pacific Sufis to Salafists.
‐‐ Peter L. Bergen

Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

Islam means peace.
‐‐ Malala Yousafzai

Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
‐‐ Abdolkarim Soroush

Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable.
‐‐ Abu Bakar Bashir

Islam's not just about covering your hair. It's about how you treat other people.
‐‐ Bassem Youssef

Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.
‐‐ Pervez Musharraf

Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
‐‐ Malala Yousafzai

Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs.
‐‐ Carroll Quigley

Islam will be what Muslims make of it. And it is the sum total of the interpretation that Muslims give to it.
‐‐ Maajid Nawaz

Islamic extremism may well be the greatest threat to Western values and Western security in the world.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

Islamic fundamentalism in its activist manifestation is bad news. Religious fundamentalism in general is bad news. We know about religious fundamentalism in South Africa. Calvinist fundamentalism has been an unmitigated force of benightedness in our history.
‐‐ J. M. Coetzee

Islamic law is clearly against terrorism, against any kind of deliberate killing of civilians or similar 'collateral damage.'
‐‐ Feisal Abdul Rauf

Islamic terrorists do not need an excuse to attack the United States. To attack us is what they do; they attack us for what we are.
‐‐ Tom Cotton

Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
‐‐ Maajid Nawaz

Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
‐‐ Maajid Nawaz

'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.
‐‐ Pankaj Mishra

Islamist terrorism has declared war against us, against France, Europe, the entire world.
‐‐ Francois Hollande

Islamist terrorism is a cancer on Islam, and Muslims themselves must fight it at our side.
‐‐ Marine Le Pen

Islamophobia has become so mainstream in this country that Americans have been trained to expect violence against Muslims - not excuse it, but expect it. And that's happened because you have an Islamophobia industry in this country devoted to making Americans think there's an enemy within.
‐‐ Reza Aslan

Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimise the importance of the individual and maximise the importance of the group. Yet our instinctive stance ought to be one of suspicion towards such endeavours. For individuals are undeniably real. Groups, on the other hand, are assertions of opinion.
‐‐ Mohsin Hamid

Islamophobia is a complex phenomenon.
‐‐ Jonathan Sacks

Island Records was the first record label to... acknowledge me. After that, quickly, Republic Records, and then Atlantic Records, Sony Records and Warner Bros. It was all the labels at once. It was absolutely insane, like, knowing that this many record labels were interested in me.
‐‐ Shawn Mendes