An oft-quoted statistic from the [United Nations] reports is that the amount of literature translated into Spanish in a single year exceeds the entire corpus of what has been translated into Arabic in 1,000 years.
The EconomistStichwörter: islam
The faith is not the problem, Bernadette. The problem is the faithful.
Robert FerrignoStichwörter: christianity religion faith islam
Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other; nothing is superfluous and nothing lacking; and the result is a structure of absolute balance and solid composure.
Muhammad AsadStichwörter: islam
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
Malcolm XHow dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the faith: all know how to die but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.
Winston S. ChurchillStichwörter: science power africa death civilization apathy grace brave curse rome influence islam mohammed the-prophet ancient-rome slavery development europe commerce dignity agriculture central-africa concubine faith-of-islam fanatical hydrophobia insecurity militant militant-faith mohammedan mohammedanism muslims paralysis property proselytizing religious-fanaticism retrograde sharia-law
Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.
Saddam HusseinStichwörter: women feminism emancipation islam iraq female-liberation
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Kekayaan tidak dinilai daripada banyaknya harta tetapi kaya jiwa.
Nik Abdul Aziz Nik MatStichwörter: islam
Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized learning. Read over again all the accounts we have of Hindoos, Chaldeans, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, Teutons, we shall find that priests had all the knowledge, and really governed all mankind. Examine Mahometanism, trace Christianity from its first promulgation; knowledge has been almost exclusively confined to the clergy. And, even since the Reformation, when or where has existed a Protestant or dissenting sect who would tolerate a free inquiry? The blackest billingsgate, the most ungentlemanly insolence, the most yahooish brutality is patiently endured, countenanced, propagated, and applauded. But touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma of a sect, though capable of the clearest proof, and you will soon find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your legs and hands, and fly into your face and eyes.
[Letters to John Taylor, 1814, XVIII, p. 484]
Stichwörter: knowledge protestant sect islam muslim science-vs-religion clergy hinduism greeks hindu monopoly celts chaldeans persians priesthood priests reformation romans teutons
They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, answered as follows: 'If the books of this library contain matters opposed to the Koran, they are bad and must be burned. If they contain only the doctrine of the Koran, burn them anyway, for they are superfluous.' Our learned men have cited this reasoning as the height of absurdity. However, suppose Gregory the Great was there instead of Omar and the Gospel instead of the Koran. The library would still have been burned, and that might well have been the finest moment in the life of this illustrious pontiff.
Jean-Jacques RousseauStichwörter: intolerance library islam koran quran absurdity science-vs-religion gospel alexandria caliph caliph-omar gregory-the-great library-of-alexandria pontiff
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