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Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, perhaps only 300 million actually understand the language of the Koran. -- Mosab Hassan Yousef
The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions. -- Naguib Mahfouz
The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books. -- Christopher Hitchens
Again and again, when Westerners are perceived as denigrating Muhammad, the Koran, or Islam, Islamists demonstrate, riot or kill. -- Daniel Pipes
There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. -- Malcolm X
The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event. -- Henry Rollins
When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent. -- Michel Houellebecq
In the history of the prophetic biblical canon that starts with Genesis, the Koran is by far the most tolerant of the views of other religions. -- Reza Aslan
Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past. -- Karen Armstrong
We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal. -- Sam Harris
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system. -- Salman Rushdie
We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards. -- Bill Shuster
People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero. -- Sarah Palin
I see no difference between Islam and Islamism. Islam is defined as submission to the will of Allah, as it is described in the Koran. Islamism is just Islam in its most pure form. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history. -- Pat Robertson
I read the Koran and it appealed to me. At the time I was agnostic and it really breathed spiritually back into me. For me it's really a cushion; it's cool, I'm cool with it. -- Q-Tip
I think the bottom line for me and for Newsweek is that there were a lot of - we did retract this specific matter about the Koran and the toilet for the reasons that you just cited. -- Michael Isikoff
By the last decades of the 21st century, church worship will still take the form of reading passages of traditional texts - the Bible, the Koran, the Rig Veda - but physicist-priests will preside over the ceremonies. -- Frank Tipler
One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran. -- Salman Rushdie
Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into a cathedral and look at the decorations of early Christianity, there are vines, animals, creatures and birds thriving all over the stonework. -- Margaret Atwood
I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood - which are my ideals. -- Michel Onfray
I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran. -- Newt Gingrich
The unbeliever knows his Koran best. -- Omar Khayyam
Software will never replace the Koran. -- Dan Wieden
In fact, .. Jesus is mentioned 75 times in the Koran. -- Ken Blanchard
The Koran is an inspiration for intolerance, murder and terror. -- Geert Wilders
I'm amazed at how Muslims keep their humanity after reading the Koran. -- Mosab Hassan Yousef
We will definitely not burn the Koran, no. Not today, not ever. -- Terry Jones
In the Koran, the first thing God said to Muhammed was 'Read. -- Jeanette Winter
I only read the Holy Koran, the Bible and the sports pages -- Muhammad Ali
Terrorism is one of the cardinal sins that the Koran threatens with hellfire. -- Fethullah Gulen
The Koran is a book of peace. It is a prophetic book of peace, -- Pope Francis
Gain some knowledge. If not from the Bible or Koran, get a book from college. -- LL Cool J
Newspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out. -- Paul Simon
I promise to crush Israel and return it to the humiliation and wretchedness of the Koran. -- Anwar Sadat
The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I just finished reading the Koran, and there's nothing in there I didn't hear in Sunday school. -- Tom Clancy
... Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, two publications read more faithfully in Hollywood than the Koran is in Mecca. -- Jack Paar
I would like to say that that even the teachings of the Koran cannot be exempted from criticism. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Gita is not only my Bible and my Koran, it is more than that, it is my mother. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There is no such thing as one Islam. The Koran is ambiguous and Islam is not a monolithic entity. -- Walter Kasper
In the East, as in the West, newspapers are fast becoming people's Bible, Koran, Zend-Avesta and Gita all rolled into one. -- Mahatma Gandhi
[The Koran is one of] the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and the Truth which the world has yet known. -- William Muir
The Holy Koran teaches that whoever kills an innocent is as - it is as if he has killed all mankind. -- Barack Obama
The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love. -- Antony Flew
The Koran says the killing of an innocent, the taking of an innocent life, is tantamount to killing all of mankind. -- Queen Noor of Jordan
A lot of the Koran does not speak very eloquently to a Westerner. Much of it is either legalistic or opaquely poetic. -- John Updike
If the Koran is the soul of Islam, then perhaps the institution of the Muslim family might be described as its body. -- Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel. -- Anne Lamott
Misuse of the Koran to provide legitimacy for violence is common, particularly in Europe, where terrorists tend not to be well-educated Muslims. -- Mia Bloom
There is only one God for us all, whether we find him through the Koran, the Zend-Avesta, The Tolmud, or the Gita. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Koran is a fascist book which incites violence. That is why this book, just like [Adolf Hitler's] Mein Kampf, must be banned -- Geert Wilders
You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on. -- Daniel Pipes
In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology -- Barack Obama
Sharia law is a Malignant law, it's totally based on the interpretation of the Koran and the Hajid, and the way Islam and the profit lived. -- Mark Durie
The source of the terror in Lebanon as in Iraq is to be found in the Koran and in the despotisms of the Arab Middle East. -- David Horowitz
The only real source of historical information about pre-Islamic Mecca and the circumstances of the Koran's revelation is the classical Islamic story about the religion's foundation... -- Toby Lester
Just as the Torah and Bible teach concern for those in distress, the Koran instructs all Muslims to make caring for widows, orphans, and refugees a priority. -- Greg Mortenson
If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the Granth Sahib or the Koran? -- Mahatma Gandhi
In Saudi Arabia, among other countries, Muslims are not free to convert to Christianity, and Christians are not free to practice their faith. The Koran is not a rights-respecting document. -- Ibn Warraq
The Koran was assembled from a variety of prior Hagarene texts (hence the contradictions re Jesus' death) in order to provide the Moses-like Muhammad with a Torah of his own.... -- Robert M. Price
The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy. -- Mark Twain
If American citizens don't wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran -- Virgil Goode
When 'Christians' cite the Bible as the basis for secular policies, they must explain why they believe Muslims in the Middle East are evil for doing the same with the Koran. -- Kurt Eichenwald
I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad -- Alexis de Tocqueville
A key difference between Christianity and Islam is that Muslims believe that the Koran contains verbatim the word of God; it is written in the imperative. This precludes a comparison with Christianity. -- Geert Wilders
The Holy Koran tells us, 'O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.' -- Barack Obama
I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to take when I one day leave this house. -- Eve Ensler
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He [Omar Khayyam] is an atheist, but knows how to interpret in orthodox style the most difficult passages of the Koran; for every educated man is a theologian and faith is not a requisite. -- Jorge Luis Borges
The most revealing books are the Holy Koran and the Holy Bible. The Bhagavad Gita is a great book as well, and the works of Buddha. These are the major influences on the world. -- RZA
The violence in the Old Testament and New Testament is descriptive. The violence in the Koran is for all time and it is prescriptive. And Mohammed said "I have been made victorious through terror.". -- Pamela Geller
We want to lead mankind to the place where there is neither the Vedas, nor the Bible, nor the Koran; yet this has to be done by harmonizing the Vedas, the Bible, and the Koran. -- Swami Vivekananda
My father insisted that I learnt the Koran and encouraged me to understand the basic traditions and beliefs of Islam but without imposing any particular views. He was an overwhelming personality but open-minded and liberal. -- Aga Khan III
The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only twenty-three years of listening to the desert. A desert which has no voice. -- Thomas Pynchon
There is a verse [in the Koran] that says God swears by time. Anything you gain in life, you pay for with your time. Time is the most important thing that has been given to man. -- Shirin Ebadi
There is no radical or moderate Islam. There is only one Islam and that is the Islam from the Koran, the holy book. That is the Islam from Mohammed. There are no two sorts of Islam. -- Geert Wilders
I was a very devout boy and one day I heard the music of an Egyptian Koran singer in the mosque. The melancholy of this music touched me so deeply that it brought me to tears. -- Shahin Najafi
I trained to become a professional Koran singer, from the age of 14 until I was 18. This involved learning Arabic harmony, breathing techniques, all of the things that this entails. And, of course, it involved studying the Koran. -- Shahin Najafi
As for the many followers of the Koran being slaughtered daily by Islamic terrorists, the world will have to wait until Barack Obama is out of office before America's might will be used to save these Muslims. -- Bob Enyart
That is a simple rule, and easy to remember. When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane; not in all things, but in religious matters. -- Mark Twain
Nowhere in the Bible, Koran, or Torah does it say, "If you curse, then you're going to hell." But everywhere it says that if you kill, you're going to wherever they send you, depending on the religion. -- Russell Simmons
Islam has values, following the Koran and the example of Mohammed and they form people very profoundly and for some Muslims it creates a vision of a very different society and a hope it will be established. -- Mark Durie
There are folks who burn the Koran and hold signs saying, "God hates fags" and all sorts of sick things - and they often hijack the headlines with hatred. We know that is not what Christ was like. -- Shane Claiborne
One of those blocks (that prevent the 'Middle East from entering the mainstream of modernity') is the orthodox tenet that the Koran and the scriptures contain all the knowledge required to deal with the problems of contemporary society. -- Arnold Beichman
...he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind...The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God. -- John Quincy Adams
One of the reasons why people in the west are nervous is they are reading the Koran, and the life of Mohammed and he is a prophet that declared he was victorious through terror and that is disturbing to people. -- Mark Durie
I don't say things like "the grace of God." All that's white noise to me, not because I'm an intellectual. For many people, it's gibberish. Likewise, the idea that the Koran was dictated by an archaic illiterate is a fantasy. -- Christopher Hitchens
[People who have left the ISIS] say that there comes a moment when the inconsistencies and apparent hypocrisies of their sheikh lets them down, and they begin rereading scripture and find ways that vouch for a nonliteralist reading of the Koran. -- Rukmini Maria Callimachi
Every religion oppresses women. I talk about the Koran because I know this book best. It allows for torture and other mistreatment, especially for women. And I despise the Sharia laws. They cannot be changed. They must be thrown out, abolished. -- Taslima Nasrin
Well, it is true that they did - the Pentagon did impose rules for governing the handling of the Koran in January of 2003, after there had been complaints about the handling of the Koran from detainees, from the International Red Cross. -- Michael Isikoff
I, as a Muslim woman living in 1993, I want to have two things - the mosque and the satellite, both at the same time. And no one can mutilate me by telling me I cannot have the mosque or the Koran. -- Fatema Mernissi
It is Allah's word just as it is in the Koran. We are also not allowed to translate it. It is unimportant whether what it says is well received or not. We are not allowed to question even a single word. -- Abdul Sattar Abu Risha
Well, yes, I mean, I think that, you know, my sources suggest that there's a lot of support for the notion that there is a lot of Koran abuse and that it was very much a systematic design, not just an aberration. -- Jane Mayer
I believe in the holy Koran. It says we declare ourselves to be righteous Muslims and do not take part in wars, or in no way fashion or form take the lives of humans unless it's a holy war declared by God himself. -- Muhammad Ali
These are the times described in the Holy Bible as the "Last Judgement" and in the Koran as "Kiyama", the Resurrection time. Astrologically it is also called the Age of Aquarius, the time of rebirth and of great spiritual development on the Earth. -- Nirmala Srivastava
To be Christian means to find the decisive revelation of God in Jesus. To be Muslim means to find the decisive revelation of God in the Koran. To be Jewish means to find the decisive revelation of God in the Torah, and so forth. -- Marcus Borg
The god of Islam tells his people, "Beat your wife. Go kill infidels. Go Kill Christians and Jews." This is in the Koran; it has been for 1400 years. Their god tells them to kill everybody who doesn't believe in the god of the Koran. -- Mosab Hassan Yousef
The Koran is a not 'a product of Muhammad or even of Arabia,' but a collection of earlier Judeo-Christian liturgical materials stitched together to meet the needs of a later age...A few scholars go even further, doubting even the existence of Muhammad. -- Daniel Pipes
Even though Noah is in the Koran as well. But we knew going into this project that you can't make stories or render images about the Prophet. But I do believe people are missing out if they don't have the choice to see this film. -- Russell Crowe
We are following Allah's word. We believe that humanity's only duty is to honor Allah and his prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. We are implementing what is written in the Koran. If we manage to do so, then of course it will be a success. -- Abdul Sattar Abu Risha
Democracy is a hegemonic tool of the West and contrary to Islam. Why do you act as though the entire world needs democracy? And when it comes to homosexuality, the issue is clearly dealt with by the Koran. It says it is forbidden and should be punished. -- Abdul Sattar Abu Risha
From the Muslims I learned from the extraordinary pluralism of the Koran, the fact that the Koran endorses every single one of the major world faiths, but I was particularly enthralled by the Sufi tradition, the mystical tradition of Islam, which is so open to other religious faiths. -- Karen Armstrong
Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It's about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
Any Westerner can now buy a Koran for a dollar and burn it, while any Muslim with a platform can transform that act into a fighting offense. As passions rise on both sides of the divide, Western provocateurs and Islamist hotheads have found each other, as confrontations occur with increasing frequency. -- Daniel Pipes
Our constitution should be inspired by the philosophy of the Koran with principles that are set in stone and not open to the whims of individual judges, as is the case now. In particular, the constitution should protect every citizen's basic human rights regardless of their sex, status or sect. Everyone should be equal before the law. -- Basmah bint Saud
I had amazing intellectual privilege as a kid. My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five, I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's 'War and Peace,' and the Koran. I was reading comic books, too. -- Chris Abani

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