The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.
John Keegan

The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy.
Gijs de Vries

The only model to follow is pure Islam.
Abu Bakar Bashir

The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
Abu Bakar Bashir

The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
Brent Scowcroft

The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West.
John Keegan

The terrorists whatever slogans they use have nothing in common with Islam.
Nursultan Nazarbayev

The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster.
Walid Jumblatt

The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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

The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and put Muslims on the spotlight.
Karen Armstrong

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

There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.
Abu Bakar Bashir

They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
Imran Khan

This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.
Polly Toynbee

This Islam business kidnapped me.
Oriana Fallaci

Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand.
Aly Khan

Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword.
Steven Runciman

Was Islam spread by them through force and coercion? No. They preached Islam by personal example.
Pervez Musharraf

We claim Islam as Deen or a complete way of life.
Pervez Musharraf