Amir Taheri Quotes

Islam in its most violent form is already part of Europe just as much as a cancer belongs to the body it attacks.

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• Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Place
  • Terrorism
  • Islam

• All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Islam

• The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Will
  • Islam

• The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Way
  • Europe
  • June

• It is axiomatic that the security of America and Europe are linked.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • Security
  • Europe

• It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Fight
  • Islam
  • Crusade

• The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Islam
  • Beliefs
  • Reveal

• Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Pain
  • Part
  • Who

• I am concerned if 25 percent of Americans think that President Obama is a Muslim. I mean, it's obviously a lack of knowledge. But also, it's for the Muslims as well, you know, because a small numbers of Muslims have really painted a very negative image of Islam.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Knowledge
  • Image
  • Islam

• The fact to the matter is, we never developed a comprehensive strategy to deal with radical Islam. And the 9/11 commission said one of the things we must do is develop a global alliance to combat it.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Said
  • Strategy
  • Islam

• Radical Islam, it has grown into a global jihad.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Islam
  • Radical
  • Global

• As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • War
  • Child
  • Values

• I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Up
  • History
  • Funny

• When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Europe
  • Phenomenon
  • Operas

• In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Perfect
  • Heaven
  • Woman

• We have got into Indian railways and are trying to get into the railway locomotive business in Europe and the United States.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Europe

• The idea is that they wouldn't want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So that's what we are doing here.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Peace
  • Progress
  • Islam

• I'm very pro-America, but I feel it necessary to keep in touch with Europe to maintain a perspective.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • America
  • Perspective
  • Europe

• You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Person
  • Needs

• In an unhealthy way, I found a lot of validity in having always been a very good athlete, a very good baseball player, and I've since grown out of that place into a different perspective and learned how to live differently, thankfully, where baseball is certainly something that's very important to me. It's not who I am, though. It's just what I do.

  

  R.A. Dickey
  • Good
  • Different
  • Important

• Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Life
  • Live
  • Courage

• I really think that studying theater early on really helped me to be able to identify how to get into a character, because it's such a mysterious thing. Learning objective acting in the beginning of my career was the best thing I could have ever done.

  

  Sufe Bradshaw
  • Character
  • Learning
  • Acting

• Islam in its most violent form is already part of Europe just as much as a cancer belongs to the body it attacks.

  

  Amir Taheri
  • Part
  • Europe
  • Islam