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Michel Aflaq Quotes

1910–1989 Syria

Michel Aflaq (Arabic: ميشيل عفلق‎ ʿAflaq, born Damascus 1910, died Paris June 23, 1989) was a Syrian philosopher, who is credited with being the ideological founder of ba'athism, a hybrid of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism.

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A day will come when the nationalists will find themselves the only defenders of Islam. They will have to give a special meaning to it if they want the Arab nation to have a good reason for survival.

Europe is as fearful of Islam today as she has been in the past. She now knows that the strength of Islam (which in the past expressed that of the Arabs) has been reborn and has appeared in a new form: Arab nationalism.

On the Way of Resurrection (1943)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Michel Aflaq (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.