{"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":"...Amar was made conscious in an instant of a presence in the air, something which had been there all the time, but which he had never isolated and identified. The thing was in him, he was a part of it, as was the man opposite him, and it was a part of them; it whispered to them that time was short, that the world they lived in was approaching its end, and beyond was unfathomable darkness. It was the premonition of inevitable defeat and annihilation, and it had always been there with them and in them, as intangible and as real as the night around them. Amar pulled two loose cigarettes out of his pocket and handed one to the potter. 'Ah, the Moslems, the Moslems!' he sighed. 'Who knows what's going to happen to them?","author":"Paul Bowles","tags":["history","islam","muslims"],"id":23434,"author_id":"Paul+Bowles"},{"text":"The Hebrews have no name for Him, the Moslems have a hundred. Both suggest the same thing, that there are concepts as well as emotions that can be communicated only allegorically.","author":"Dagobert D. Runes","tags":["god","hebrews","islam","muslims"],"id":31967,"author_id":"Dagobert+D.+Runes"},{"text":"Suppose that members of a religious movement, such as Christianity, maintain that the existence of some powerful god and its goals or laws can be known through their scriptures, their prophets, or some special revelation. Suppose further that the evidence that is available to support the reliability of those scriptures, prophets, or special revelations is weaker than that God is hypothetically capable of producing. That is, suppose that Christians maintain that Jesus was resurrected on the basis of the Gospels, or that God’s existence can be known through the Bible, or Muslims insist on the historical authenticity of the Koran. Could God, the almighty creator of the universe, have brought it about so that the evidence in favor of the resurrection, the Bible, or the Koran was better than we currently find it? I take it that the answer is obviously yes. Even if you think there is evidence that is sufficient to prove the resurrection, a reasonable person must also acknowledge that it could have been better. And there’s the problem. If the capacity of that god is greater than the effectiveness or quality of those scriptures, prophets, or special revelations, then the story they are telling contradicts itself. 'We know our god is real on the basis of evidence that is inadequate for our god.' Or, 'The grounds that lead us to believe in our god are inconsistent with the god we accept; nevertheless, we believe in this god that would have given us greater evidence if it had wished for us to believe in it.'Given the disparity between the gods that these religious movements portend and the grounds offered to justify them, the atheist is warranted in dismissing such claims. If the sort of divine being that they promote were real and if he had sought our believe on the basis of the evidence, the evidential situation would not resemble the one we are in. The story doesn’t make internal sense. A far better explanation is that their enthusiasm for believing in a god has led them to overstate what the evidence shows. And that same enthusiasm has made it difficult for them to see that an all powerful God would have the power to make his existence utterly obvious and undeniable. Since it’s not, the non-believer can’t possibly be faulted for failing to believe.","author":"Matthew S. McCormick","tags":["agnosticism","argument-against-god","atheism","atheist","atheist-argument","belief","bible-koran","christianity","christians","evidence","existence-power","faith","god","gods","history","islam","jesus","logic","muslim","muslims","philosophy","prophecy","prove","reason","religion","resurrection","revelation","scripture","sense","theism"],"id":42870,"author_id":"Matthew+S.+McCormick"},{"text":"[Taliban spokesman on Malala Yousafzai]Malala Yousafzai targeted and criticized Islam. She was against Islam and we tried to kill her, and if we get a chance again we will definitely try to kill her, and we will feel proud killing her.","author":"Shahidullah Shahid","tags":["islam","islamic-terrorism","jihad","kill","malala","malala-yousafzai","muslim","muslim-terrorists","muslims","proud","taliban","terrorism"],"id":53147,"author_id":"Shahidullah+Shahid"},{"text":"In the 10th century, Baghdad instituted a licensing exam that all doctors had to take before practicing as physicians.","author":"Firas Alkhateeb","tags":["baghdad","history","iraq","islam","muslims"],"id":56353,"author_id":"Firas+Alkhateeb"},{"text":"Basic trigonometric properties put forth by Muslim mathematicians serve as basis for how GPS systems work today.","author":"Firas Alkhateeb","tags":["history","islam","muslims"],"id":65259,"author_id":"Firas+Alkhateeb"},{"text":"Abraham had eight sons--not one. All eight sons bring something to the table. Abraham loved all of his sons. He was a good father who made sure all his sons were literate, of good character and shared a common ideology with their father, Abraham. Abraham did good. Where did we go wrong?Pg 54.","author":"Michael Ben Zehabe","tags":["abraham","forgiveness","interfaith","isaac","muslims","peace","prejudice","religious-intolerance","shulamite","song-of-solomon","song-of-songs","sons-of-abraham"],"id":77652,"author_id":"Michael+Ben+Zehabe"},{"text":"Identity politics is killings free speech on campus, silencing Muslim women struggle, boosting both Islamism and the far Right and pushing reconciled Muslim voices to the fringes. It makes implicit assumptions about Islam - from an Islamist, Left or Right- perspective - and insists all Muslims must adhere to that definition or be regarded not truly Muslim. It ignores the fact that most ordinary Muslims are not in favour of a violent and that in surveys and polls they support British values more than the general UK population. Yet the myth persists that the ideology of Islamism is the true expression of what it means to be Muslim.","author":"Tony McMahon","tags":["british","british-muslim","far-right","identity","identity-politics","islam","islamism","islamist","muslim","muslim-women","muslims","politics","struggle","struggles","uk"],"id":84332,"author_id":"Tony+McMahon"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":68,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}