{"quotes":[{"text":"Islamophobia defines whether a person is really a thinking and sentient sapiens or an ignorant caveman.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["consciousness","fear","fundamentalism","human-behavior","human-mind","human-nature","inspirational","inspiring","islam","islamophobia","jihad","motivational","muslims","philosophy","phobia","primitive-human-behavior","quran","religious-terrorism","terrorism","truth"],"id":3452,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"It is much easier to condemn Islam and 'oppressive Muslim men' than to unpack the intricate relationships between global politics related to empire building and capitalist expansion as well as regional and national struggles revolving around political and economic power and resources.","author":"Nadje Al-Ali","tags":["foreign-policy","iraq","islam","islamophobia","muslim-men","muslim-women","muslims"],"id":7919,"author_id":"Nadje+Al-Ali"},{"text":"The whole humanity together must start working on focusing on reinforcing the elements of love and compassion from Islamic philosophy into the general human psyche.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","harmony","inspirational","inspiring","islam","islamophobia","jihad","motivational","peace","philosophy","religion-freedom","truth","wisdom","words-of-wisdom"],"id":30124,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"The theft of brown women's narratives is not only an injustice placed on them, but also one extended to their male counterparts; by insisting they need to be liberated from their 'barbaric' civilization, Laura [Bush] summoned the colonial assertion that brown women need saving from brown men, when, in actuality, brown women have suffered at the hands of white men more than at those of any other oppressor in history.","author":"Amani Al-Khatahtbeh","tags":["colonialism","feminism","islam","islamophobia","muslim","muslim-women","racism","white-feminism"],"id":65169,"author_id":"Amani+Al-Khatahtbeh"},{"text":"Women that speak against Islam are being labelled as islamophobic, as though our right to free speech is disregarded, when it comes down to an oppressive regime, which does not even recognise women as human...","author":"Anita B. Sulser PhD","tags":["feminism","free-speech","freedom","human","islamophobia","oppression","truth","womens-rights"],"id":66539,"author_id":"Anita+B.+Sulser+PhD"},{"text":"Whether most Muslims are peaceable is irrelevant. The fact is that fanatics rule Islam now \u0026 act-out what the Qur'an truly says ...Maul, march, \u0026 murder every Infidel if they won't convert!","author":"Gary Patton","tags":["islam","islamic-terrorism","islamism","islamization","islamophobia","jihadism"],"id":92803,"author_id":"Gary+Patton"},{"text":"We don't have the luxury to say that, there is no hope for reform in Islam, because by saying this, we would be disavowing the entire peace-loving Muslim population of the world. We cannot leave our Muslim sisters and brothers behind to be oppressed by their own priestly tyrants, while the rest of the world keeps progressing with an open mind. The entire civilized society of the world, must put their heart and soul to get Islam liberated from the shackles of fundamentalism. Conscience must triumph over orthodox barbarianism, otherwise there would be no hope for the progress and wellbeing of humanity as a truly wise species.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["allah","bismillah","brainy","fundamentalism","fundamentalist","harmony","harmony","humanism","humanist","humanitarian","humanitarian-activities","humanitarian-efforts","humanitarian-intervention","humanity","inspiring","islam","islamic","islamic","islamic-terrorism","islamism","islamophobia","love-and-compassion","love-and-kindness","muslim","muslimah","muslims","muslims-life","peace-makers","peace-on-earth","quran","religion","religious-extremism","religious-fundamentalism","religious-harmony","religious-tolerance","sage","service-to-mankind","spirituality","thinker"],"id":101167,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"When phobia starts to build up in the psyche of thinking humanity against a part of its own kind, there is nothing more primordial and gruesome than that, especially when we are talking about a species that is supposedly the most intelligent one on Earth. Phobias recorded in DSM do not make a person lesser human, but Islamophobia does indeed define whether a person is really a thinking and sentient sapiens or an ignorant caveman.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["compassion","human-behavior","inspirational","inspiring","islam","islamophobia","love","motivational","muslims","neuropsychology","neuroscience","philosophy","phobia","psychology","truth","wisdom","words-of-wisdom"],"id":106103,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"At a cellular level of the human mind, Islamophobia is not really a matter of social stigma, rather it is a natural biological fear response of the general human mind, conditioned through countless pairings between terrorist attacks (unconditioned stimulus) and their apparent association with Islam (conditioned stimulus). Hence, Islamophobia cannot be eradicated completely, unless that pairing is severed and thereafter the conditioned stimulus of Islam is paired with something optimistic such as the heartwarming works of the 13th century Persian Muslim poet Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","conditioning","conditioning","fear","fear","fundamentalism","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","inspirational-religious","inspiring","islam","islamic","islamic-terrorism","islamophobia","learning","learning","life-lessons","life-lessons","memory","memory","mind","mind-body-spirit","mind","neurobiology","neuroscience","philosophy","philosophy-of-science","philosophy","religion","religious-philosophy","truth","truth"],"id":106447,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Needless to say, there are people who hate Arabs, Somalis, and other immigrants from predominantly Muslim societies for racist reasons. But if you can’t distinguish that sort of blind bigotry from a hatred and concern for dangerous, divisive, and irrational ideas—like a belief in martyrdom, or a notion of male “honor” that entails the virtual enslavement of women and girls—you are doing real harm to our public conversation. Everything I have ever said about Islam refers to the content and consequences of its doctrine. And, again, I have always emphasized that its primary victims are innocent Muslims—especially women and girls.","author":"Sam Harris","tags":["advancement","bigotry","conservative","critical-thinking","democrat","ideas","immigrant","islam","islamism","islamophobia","liberal","logic","muslim","philosophy","progress","race","racism","rational-thinking","reason","religion","republican","science","thinking","thought"],"id":108984,"author_id":"Sam+Harris"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":23,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}