{"quotes":[{"text":"I'm a spiritual person, she said. 'I believe in Allah, you know, though I don't always call It 'Allah' and I pray the way I want to pray. Sometimes I just look out at the stars and this love-fear thing comes over me, you know? And sometimes I might sit in a Christian church listening to them talk about Isa with a book of Hafiz in my hands instead of the hymnal. And you know what, Yusef? Sometimes, every once in a while, I get out my old rug and I pray like Muhammad prayed. I never learned the shit in Arabic and my knees are uncovered, but if Allah has a problem with that then what kind of Allah do we believe in?","author":"Michael Muhammad Knight","tags":["allah","church","hafiz","islam","liberalism","muslim","prophet-muhammad-pbuh","spirituality"],"id":5407,"author_id":"Michael+Muhammad+Knight"},{"text":"There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world. If, for the sake of argument, 1 million are violent, that's a mere .000625 percent of them. I wonder who among you wants to be judged on such a tiny minority. Further, at 1.6 billion, if all Muslims - or even most Muslims - were violent, the world would already be in flames. Most people simply want to live their lives in peace, with some degree of material comfort. I find it bizarre - and disturbing - that so many Americans imagine that being a Muslim somehow trumps human nature and makes ordinary simple people want to rise up and kill everyone. That takes a special kind of stupid.","author":"Dave Champion","tags":["death","hatred","islam","killing","material-comfort","minority","muslim","religion","stupidity","violence"],"id":8806,"author_id":"Dave+Champion"},{"text":"The religion/ politics dichotomy is a false one. It isn't that politics has no role; it's that politics is simply inseparable from the Abrahamic religions. Religion is politics. That was the case during the Barbary confrontation in 1786, and it's the case with the Israel-Palestine conflict now. Throughout history, religion has simply been an excuse looking for a conflict.","author":"Ali A. Rizvi","tags":["abrahamic","atheism","atheist","islam","journey","muslim","reason","religion"],"id":11845,"author_id":"Ali+A.+Rizvi"},{"text":"Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality.","author":"Sam Harris","tags":["christian","morality","muslim"],"id":12291,"author_id":"Sam+Harris"},{"text":"Do you know which is the greatest epic till date?","author":"K. Hari Kumar","tags":["brahmin","chennai","epic","ghittorni","hindu","india","inpirational","iyer","jai","k-hari-kumar","krishnaprasad-iyer","mahabharata","metro-station","muslim","new-delhi","pathan","south-india","story","stranger","stranger-s-tale","tale","when-strangers-meet"],"id":15753,"author_id":"K.+Hari+Kumar"},{"text":"On a high mountain I stood, And cried the name of Ali, Lion of God.O Ali, Lion of God, King of Men, Bring joy to our sorrowful hearts.","author":"Khaled Hosseini","tags":["allah","god","muslim"],"id":24054,"author_id":"Khaled+Hosseini"},{"text":"If religion has nothing to do with poverty and misery then why the Muslims are the largest charity takers of the world. ","author":"M.F. Moonzajer","tags":["charity","misery","muslim","poverty","religion","world"],"id":26046,"author_id":"M.F.+Moonzajer"},{"text":"Like a sculptor, if necessary,carve a friend out of stone.Realize that your inner sight is blindand try to see a treasure in everyone.","author":"Jalaluddin Rumi","tags":["blind","muhammad","muslim","poetry","rumi","unity"],"id":29767,"author_id":"Jalaluddin+Rumi"},{"text":"Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.","author":"Mahatma Gandhi","tags":["buddhism","christian","christianity","hindu","hinduism","islam","jew","judaism","muslim","religion"],"id":38470,"author_id":"Mahatma+Gandhi"},{"text":"Miracles are commonplace in religious scripture. Our ancient ancestors are said to have felt Jesus' wounds, verified Muhammad's ascent to heaven, and even interacted with their respective deities directly. Today, believers have no such luxury. They are forced to rely on blind faith that these things occurred, that people were at one time able to overcome or render inert natural laws.","author":"David G. McAfee","tags":["christianity","miracles","modern","modern-miracle","muslim"],"id":42183,"author_id":"David+G.+McAfee"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":131,"pages":14,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}