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he philosophy of Islam will be shown in terms of the modern philosophy, and if there are imperfectio...

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I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

The day I met Islam, I found a power within myself that no man could destroy or take away from me.

The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrenders to God.' But the press m...

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Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and pol...

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We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop acc...

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We have undoubtedly achieved Pakistan, and that too without bloody war, practically peacefully, by m...

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The great majority of us are Muslims. We follow the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed (may peace be ...

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Democracy is in the blood of the Muslims, who look upon complete equality of mankind, and believe in...

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Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, ...

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Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon ...

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You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social ju...

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If one has not been able to experience God by himself, one should allow himself to be guided by the ...

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There is one thing only which a Muslim can profitably learn from the west, the exact sciences in the...

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So long as Muslims continue looking towards Western civilization as the only force that could regene...

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Muhammad AsadIslam at the Crossroads

...to imitate Western civilization in its spirit, its mode of life and its social organization is im...

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Muhammad AsadIslam at the Crossroads

...we must learn -once again- to regard Islam as the norm by which the world is to be judged.

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Muhammad AsadIslam at the Crossroads

By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West,the Muslims are being gradually forced to ...

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Muhammad AsadIslam at the Crossroads

For, according to the teachings of Islam, moral knowledge automatically forces moral responsibility ...

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Muhammad AsadIslam at the Crossroads

History proves beyond any possibility of doubt that no religion has ever given a stimulus to scienti...

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Muhammad AsadIslam at the Crossroads

The vast majority of administrators, at all times and in all societies, are prone to commit grievous...

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Muhammad AsadThe Principles of State and Government in Islam

Reh Gyi Rasm-e-Azan, Rooh-e-Bilali Na RahiFalsafa Reh Gya, Talqeen-e-Ghazali Na RahiAzan yet sounds,...

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The great point in Christianity is the search for an independent content for spiritual life which, a...

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Muhammad IqbalThe Reconstruction Of Religious Thought In Islam

No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer

It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence

Contrary to what the West seems to think, it is not poverty that brings people like us so close to G...

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Decadence, decadence, he said to himself. They’ve lost everything and gained nothing. The French had...

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Stenham had always taken it for granted that the dichotomy of belief and behavior was the cornerston...

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Yes, but perhaps he did have something to do with it.” (In such arguments Stenham often found himsel...

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...Amar was made conscious in an instant of a presence in the air, something which had been there al...

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Islam cannot have a significant presence in Australia if we are to live in an open, secular, and coh...

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I was enraged by these heinous acts of barbarism - enraged that people who called themselves Muslims...

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The pens sharpen – Islamophobia! No such thing. Primitive Middle Eastern religions (and most others)...

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Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.

Islam is a religion. It is not an ideology. For a Muslim, there is no such thing as to be against mo...

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Allowing Islamic Sharia law into the constitutions of the U.S-created Islamic (!) Republic of Afghan...

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[…] I began to see Algiers as one of the most fascinating and dramatic places on earth. In the small...

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Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women a...

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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to ...

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Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying

So-called Islamic 'fundamentalism' does not spring, in Pakistan, from the people. It is imposed on t...

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Mahound comes to me for revelation, asking me to choose between monotheist and henotheist alternativ...

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Needless to say, there are people who hate Arabs, Somalis, and other immigrants from predominantly M...

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even if Noam Chomsky were right about everything, the Islamic doctrines related to martyrdom, jihad,...

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The truth, however, is that most Muslims appear to be "fundamental-ist" in the Western sense of the ...

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In Islam, it is the "moderate" who is left to split hairs,because the basic thrust of the doctrine i...

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Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islam...

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Arabs and other Muslims generally agreed that Saddam Hussein might be a bloody tyrant, but, parallel...

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Samuel P. HuntingtonThe Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violen...

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Samuel P. HuntingtonThe Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

Mahatma Gandhi was as devout a Rambhakt as you can get — he died from a Hindu assassin’s bullet with...

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Any critique of Islam is denounced as an expression of Western Islamophobia, Salman Rushdie is denou...

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I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to b...

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In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big ...

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It is a great shame for anyone to listen to the accusation that Islam is a lie and that Muhammad was...

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The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgrace...

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Each of those churches shows certain books, which they call revelation, or the Word of God. The Jews...

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It takes no more research than a trip to almost any public library or college to show the incredibly...

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We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are no...

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All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, th...

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All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, th...

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A true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece o...

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Why does a young Muslim, in the prime of life, with a full life ahead, go and blow himself up in a b...

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If we rated greatness by the influence of the great, we will say "Muhammad is the greatest of the gr...

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Certainly If John moschos where to come back today it is likely that he would find much more than th...

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William Dalrymple (historian)From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East

But Khair did not need such proof of her husband's love for her. Over and over again,James had riske...

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William Dalrymple (historian)White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India

Now how does all this relate to Islamic jihad? Islam sees violence as a means of propagating the Mus...

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I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion o...

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People who change their religion should face the death penalty.

An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, ...

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Take terrorism, one example among the methods used in that struggle. We know that leftist tradition ...

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Albert MemmiThe Colonizer and the Colonized

There are only three integral views of the world: the religious, the materialistic, and the Islamic....

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The question is whether they can find a way out and remain what they are. To adapt themselves to rea...

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In some socialist states well-performed work is rewarded with moral stimulants instead of material o...

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We have no rational evidence that there exits another world, but we have a clear feeling that man do...

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It is known that the Quran leaves an analytical reader the impression of disarrangement, and that it...

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The mystics have always stressed the religious aspect of Islam, the rationalists the other one. All ...

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Dualism is the closest human feeling, but it is not necessarily the highest human philosophy. On the...

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Scientists or thinkers who try to discover the truth cannot find that higher life by thinking alone,...

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Yasunari Kawabata, the Japanese Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1968, committed suicide in 1971...

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We have no rational evidence that there exist another world, but we have a clear feeling that man do...

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Islam's middle position can be recognized by the fact that Islam has always been attacked from the t...

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Marxism rejected the family and the state, but in practice it kept these institutions. Every pure re...

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All the dilemmas and questions of today were known in ethics more than 2,000 years ago. All the grea...

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If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a hum...

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Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, ...

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There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

Everywhere where detestable Islam has not yet driven out the ancient, profound religions of humanity...

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When, as happened recently in France, an attempt is made to coerce women out of the burqa rather tha...

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But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire kn...

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You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist [....] I...

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American liberals today are hesitant to speak out against the denial of rights that is perpetrated i...

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It is always difficult to make the transition to a modern world. I moved from the world of faith to ...

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The morning after the 9/11 attacks...we began talking about the Twin Towers attack. Ruud shook his h...

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Most Americans, and indeed most Europeans, would much rather ignore the fundamental conflict between...

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Ayaan Hirsi AliHeretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now

When I assert that Islam is not a religion of peace I do not mean that Islamic belief makes Muslims ...

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Ayaan Hirsi AliHeretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now

Confronted with such flagrant acts of intolerance—such abuses of the freedom of speech—a free societ...

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Ayaan Hirsi AliHeretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now

Islam is not unusual in having a tradition of martyrs. What is unique to Islam is the tradition of m...

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Ayaan Hirsi AliHeretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now

Multiculturalism should not mean that we tolerate another culture’s intolerance. If we do in fact su...

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We who have the luxury of living in the West have an obligation to stand up for liberal principles. ...

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Ayaan Hirsi AliHeretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now

Many well-meaning Dutch people have told me in all earnestness that nothing in Islamic culture incit...

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