Islam Quotes

This is a small page with views from supporters, critics and historians, and none of its entries is flagged as misattributed. The names at the top are the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Harari, Hillary Clinton, Richard Dawkins and Tsai Ping-kun.

The sourced entries take different angles. Gandhi, speaking in 1939, says that the very word Islam means peace. Yuval Noah Harari, in Sapiens (2011), says Christian success served as a model for another monotheist religion that appeared in the Arabian peninsula in the seventh century. The philosopher Antony Flew, in a 2009 book, says he could never regard it with anything but horror and fear. Each quote page gives the full text and source, which matter more here than on most topics.

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In the hours of its political degradation, Islam has achieved some of its most brilliant spiritual conquests: on two great historical occasions, infidel barbarians have set their feet on the necks of the followers of the Prophet, - the Saljūq Turks in the eleventh and the Mongols in the thirteenth century,- and in each case the conquerors have accepted the religion of the conquered. Unaided also by the temporal power, Muslim missionaries have carried their faith into Central Africa, China and the East India Islands.

Thomas Walker Arnold The Preaching of Islam: a History of the Propagation of the Muslim Faith (1913)

The USA will remain the only superpower. China is becoming an economic giant. Europe is being Islamicized.

Frits Bolkestein Address at the opening of courses at the University of Leiden (2004)

We aim to make Tainan a Muslim-friendly city with services from birth to death.

Li Meng-yen Li Meng-yen (2018)

Do everything to demonstrate, and in the most emphatic manner, our sympathy for the Moslems, their autonomy, independence, etc.

Vladimir Lenin

When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.

Barbara Tuchman A Distant Mirror (1978)