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If we suggest that it is okay to make fun of everything except certain aspects of Islam because Musl...

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The refusal to examine Islamic culture and traditions, the sordid dehumanization of Muslims, and the...

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The Koran is empathetic about the rights of other religions to practice their own beliefs. It unequi...

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Half the published articles on Gaza contain a standard reference to its resemblance to a vast open-a...

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So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the ha...

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Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I ...

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And I'll close by saying this. Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to t...

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I am not one of those who believes—as Obama is said to believe—that a solution to the Palestinian st...

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The barbarians never take a city until someone holds the gates open to them. And it's your own multi...

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the bombers of Manhattan represent fascism with an Islamic face. . . . What they abominate about ‘th...

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To take a side against Rushdie, or to be neutral and evasive about him in the name of some vaguely s...

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I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization again...

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The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do I have to demonstrate this? The Taliban's...

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Christopher HitchensA Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq

As to the 'Left' I'll say briefly why this was the finish for me. Here is American society, attacked...

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The 'pre-emption' versus 'prevention' debate may be a distinction without much difference. The impor...

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Christopher HitchensChristopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror

There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, bu...

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I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so e...

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I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so e...

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It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradict...

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Like the Nazis, the cadres of jihad have a death wish that sets the seal on their nihilism. The goal...

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Almost all religions from Buddhism to Islam feature either a humble prophet or a prince who comes to...

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Christopher Hitchensgod is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out ...

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Woe to him who becomes useless to human progress!

Islam has been liberal when it has been weak and violent when it has been strong.

In relation to Monotheism considered as such, Judaism stabilized but “confiscated” the Message; Chri...

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The differences between religions are reflected very clearly in the different forms of sacred art: c...

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Frithjof SchuonGnosis: Divine Wisdom: A New Translation with Selected Letters

If Mohammed had been a false prophet. there is no reason why Christ should not have spoken of him as...

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As for the negation of the Christian Trinity in the Quran - and this negation is extrinsic and condi...

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My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan...

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I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism...

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They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, ...

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Jean-Jacques RousseauDiscourse on the Sciences and Arts (1st Discourse) and Polemics

Europe had fallen back into the barbarity of the first ages. People from this part of world, so enli...

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Jean-Jacques RousseauDiscourse on the Sciences and Arts (1st Discourse) and Polemics

By the time of the arrival of Islam in the early seventeenth century CE, what we now call the Middle...

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Many historians regard him [Offa] as the most powerful Anglo-Saxon king before Alfred the Great. In ...

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Arabic science throughout its golden age was inextricably linked to religion; indeed, it was driven ...

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In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was...

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As the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, — as i...

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...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in a...

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John AdamsThe Letters of John and Abigail Adams

...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in a...

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John AdamsThe Letters of John and Abigail Adams

Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

One of the most interesting histories of what comes of rejecting science we may see in Islam, which ...

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Islam is about finding your own space.

Many people are born into their religion. For them it is mostly a matter of legacy and convenience. ...

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Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some g...

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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually,...

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In [the] early days, Muslims did not see Islam as a new, exclusive religion but as a continuation of...

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Karen ArmstrongThe Case for God

Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human ...

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So, this war is against the Islam that the West does not control.

I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days...

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Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.

The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid ...

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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the...

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There is nothing in our book, the Qur'an, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches...

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I am a Muslim, because it's a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. I...

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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send...

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True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and rac...

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When the meat platter was passed to me, I didn't even know what the meat was; usually, you couldn't ...

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Malcolm XThe Autobiography of Malcolm X

I want to say before I go on that I have never previously told anyone my sordid past in detail. I ha...

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I have always thought that if women's hair posed so many problems, God would certainly have made us ...

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I believe Western culture -- rule of law, universal suffrage, etc. -- is preferable to Arab culture:...

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A world that becomes more Muslim becomes less everything else. First it’s Jews, already abandoning F...

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Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellia...

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Mark SteynAmerica Alone: The End of the World as We Know It

It’s possible to be flippant here, when Jihadists fly aircraft into buildings they shout God is Grea...

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Martin AmisThe Second Plane: 14 Responses to September 11

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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