“Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta’s Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.”
“My family is Muslim. But I don’t consider myself a very devout Muslim, but a cultural Muslim, whatever that means.”
“They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.”
“He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.”
“I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.”
“I was seen as a traitor for marrying a Muslim – a Pakistani at that.”
“I’m not a practising Muslim.”
“In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood.”
“I was a Muslim once, remember, and it was when I was most devout that I was most full of hate.”
“The al-Aqsa compound is occupied territory that, as per the status quo, is administered by the King of Jordan and the Muslim Waqf.”
“I don’t think being a Muslim or being a non-Muslim has been an advantage or disadvantage.”
“The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country – I know, because I am one of them.”
“I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.”
“Not every Muslim is out to get us.”
“I thought everybody would embrace and understand my reasons for becoming Muslim.”
“My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim.”
“I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.”
“Muslim women can save the world from ISIS.”
“Freedom of expression is essential for feminists and dissidents in the Muslim world.”
“I come from a Muslim family. The label ‘Muslim’ is one aspect of me, but it’s not the only part of me.”
“Music, performance, and a woman is very rarely accepted within Muslim communities.”
“The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.”
“I tend not to believe radical Muslim movements.”
“I would never agree to an exclusive Muslim sovereignty over areas that are religiously important to Jews and Christians.”
“The United States must continue to support efforts made by Middle Eastern governments to educate Muslim youth and steer them away from violent radicalization.”
“Syria’s population is 74% Sunni Muslim.”
“There are no Muslim ghettos in the U.S.”
“My dad was a strict Muslim. He had a lot of rules.”
“The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.”
“’Jihad’ can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.”
“I don’t believe there is such a thing as a moderate Islamist party. The challenge with Islamists is that they seek to impose what they call Sharia on everybody, Muslim and non-Muslim alike.”
“After all, from the Muslim Brotherhood’s inception in Egypt in 1928, it has been a revolutionary organization committed to the imposition worldwide of a totalitarian, supremacist Islamic doctrine they call shariah.”
“Being a Muslim in America, I’ve noticed that there’s a ton of crossover between the Muslim community and geekdom.”
“It’s patently impossible for a Muslim character to represent ‘all Muslims.’”
“It’s important that we work very closely with moderate Muslim forces locally, nationally and internationally.”
“Muslim organisations tend to have a low level of organisation. The communities in Europe are quite diverse.”
“I would rather live as a Muslim in the West than in most of the Muslim countries, because I think the way Muslims are allowed to live in the West is closer to the Muslim way.”
“The greatest preventative to terrorism is Muslim religious literacy.”
“I am a Muslim, but my favourite festival is Holi, so that is how it is.”
“Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.”
“Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims – this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.”
“What is a Muslim neighborhood? How many Muslims have to be in a neighborhood before it becomes worthy of checking papers and kicking in the doors of homes and businesses?”
“We condemn any kind of abuse of Muslim women or women anywhere in the world.”
“A 2014 survey found that 74% of law-enforcement agencies reported antigovernment extremism as one of the top terrorist threats. Just 3% of those agencies viewed the threat from Muslim extremists as severe.”
“I’m a good Muslim and I’m only interested in Islam.”
“I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim.”
“Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.”
“The British, and most European countries, have struggled to accommodate Muslim immigrants, but they have nevertheless welcomed them in large numbers.”
“Strangely, or maybe not so strangely, a lot of the roles that I am offered are of Muslim characters, maybe because I looked a certain way in ‘Neerja.’ But I am actually Parsi.”
“The Muslim heaven features prominently in the Quran, Arabic poetries and Hadith. The Jewish heaven, though, is still a mystery; it’s mystic.”
“I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years.”
“Jamal Khashoggi was a Muslim Brotherhood operative, and so I don’t really feel sympathy for him.”
“It was 1989, and the word ‘Muslim’ wasn’t even really used in Britain at the time; you were either black or Asian.”
“I’m Muslim. I’m Palestinian. I’m a woman in a hijab.”
“Wearing hijab made you know that I was Muslim.”
“I’m not just a token Muslim.”
“My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn’t even have a Muslim identity.”
“The fact is that there is a serious problem of extremism with minority groups within Muslim communities.”
“Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers.”
“It does our Muslim compatriots no favors to fuel suspicions and leave things unspoken.”
“This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.”
“Muslim Americans in general tend to be an underrepresented political group.”
“My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim.”
“To pretend that there is no such thing as the Muslim world is specious, self-deluding, and – frankly – plain silly.”
“There are no authentic reports in any of the Muslim books of history of the Prophet Muhammad punishing anyone for same-sex acts.”
“I am a believing and practising Muslim – but I am also a social democrat.”
“The Salafists, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Al Qaeda in Iraq are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria.”
“Every Muslim leader must unequivocally proclaim that terror committed in the name of Islam violates the core tenets of the Prophet Mohammed, and they must do so repeatedly. Period.”
“The goal of isolating extremists and making them unwelcome in Muslim communities has been abandoned.”
“For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.”
“Muslim views are not a monolithic blob.”
“Does every Muslim commit terror? Of course not.”
“I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.”
“I was never turned down because I was a Muslim. I was turned down because I was not right for the part.”
“Since his inauguration, Trump has signed numerous executive orders that negatively impact poor, black and brown, queer, Muslim, and other communities.”
“If the Muslim is Sharia-compliant, that is in direct conflict with the U.S. Constitution.”
“I do not think a Muslim ban is in our country’s interest.”
“I cannot discriminate on the basis of Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian.”
“I’m very proud to be of Muslim faith.”
“There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization.”
“Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and notably the US.”
“Our ideals are under the constant threat of extremism, whether in the form of radical Muslim groups or the emergence of other elements seeking to deny the rights and freedoms of others.”
“Every single interview I have ever done on TV or in print says I’m a Muslim.”
“The Muslim community is completely fractured – it doesn’t really exist anymore; the only place it does exist is online.”
“ISIL is more threatening to the Muslim world than it is to western civilization.”
“The Muslim Brotherhood is a fundamentalist group.”
“The Muslim Brotherhood is much more hardline than Turkish Islamists.”
“Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its products.”
“Saddam Hussein was not an Islamist. He’s not a radical jihadist. He’s not a radical Muslim. I mean, he was a – he was a Baathist. He was a secular – even though he professed to be a good and devout Muslim.”
“I’ve got many letters from Muslim organizations thanking me for making ‘Kingdom of Heaven.’”
“I am from Scotland, and I am Christian, not Muslim.”
“If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he’d be dead by now.”
“Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations’ resentment of the West.”
“Virtually all of Darfur’s six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features.”
“Nobody has the right – even a Muslim – to talk for all Muslims.”
“I don’t teach my children what is Hindu and what is Muslim.”
“As the United States shapes and carries out its policies toward Muslim countries, it should do so with Turkey at its side.”
“I was raised orthodox Muslim. Very sheltered, very conservative.”
“The Muslim Brotherhood membership includes designated terrorist organizations like Hamas.”
“There’s a difference between being a fundamentalist and being al-Qaeda and being Muslim. It’s absurd to think otherwise.”
“Turkey knows the importance of its ties with Israel; it knows it’s in the same moderate camp with Israel, the moderate Palestinians and other Muslim countries, and the threat to Turkey is not from us.”
“Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.”
“The blatant aggressiveness of theocracies I find distressing, because I grew up when Christians, Muslim and animists lived peacefully together.”
“There are millions and millions of patriotic Muslim Americans.”
“To be a veiled Muslim woman on screen is a very scary minefield for me.”
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