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  • I believe in Christianity, Judaism and Islamism, but I stay away from churches, synagogues and mosques. -- Ted Lange
  • This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques. -- Otto Schily
  • If you [Donald Trump] do visit this country [UK], take time to visit the Mosques. Take time to reflect on how dangerous that kind of rhetoric is. -- Sarah Wollaston
  • We feel sorrow and pain over the death of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd. We have known this man for a long time... he showed support and commitment to the Palestinian revolution and to Fatah since the 1960s. -- Mahmoud Abbas
  • I looked in temples churches and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart. -- Rumi
  • When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • There are some mosques with facilities for women; it's usually a back room with a back-door entrance. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers... -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques. -- Aasif Mandvi
  • But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans. -- Peter T. King
  • Tear down the mosque, the temple, everything in sight. But don't break a human heart. For that is where God resides. -- Bulleh Shah
  • The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. -- Alan Watts
  • Samarkand, with its magnificent mosques, tombs and dazzling ensembles of ceramic tiles, is still one of the world's most awe-inspiring cities. -- Stephen Kinzer
  • I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. -- Khalil Gibran
  • 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
  • Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever. -- Chinua Achebe
  • We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban. -- Umberto Eco
  • I support mosques, obviously. We need churches, temples, mosques. Whatever people use to speak with their god or to receive spiritual inspiration is good for the country. But the symbolism of it at ground zero, within two blocks or three blocks, I believe is wrong. -- Peter T. King
  • Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion? -- Michael Bloomberg
  • The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan. -- Michael Bloomberg
  • Take a walk down the street and see where this is going. You no longer feel like you are living in your own country. There is a battle going on and we have to defend ourselves. Before you know it there will be more mosques than churches! -- Geert Wilders
  • We build buildings based on the false assumption that women go to mosques half as much as they actually do. In fact, the US is the only country in the world where women and men report that they attend the mosque in equal numbers, but our institutions aren't representing this reality. -- Dalia Mogahed
  • Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command in control, no army and calls it a war. -- Noam Chomsky
  • The Israelis are mistaken if they think we do not have an alternative to negotiations. By Allah I swear they are wrong. The Palestinian people are prepared to sacrifice the last boy and the last girl so that the Palestinian flag will be flown over the walls, the churches and the mosques of Jerusalem. -- Yasser Arafat
  • Just several years ago, Shaykh Kabbani, who is the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, when he was speaking at the State Department, said that more than 80 percent of the mosques were controlled by extremists. And from all I've seen over the last four or five years, the situation has even gotten worse. -- Peter T. King
  • If you look around, you can find a face of God in each thing, because He is not hidden in a church, in a mosque, or a synagogue, but everywhere. As there is no one who lives after seeing him, there is also no one dying after seeing him. Who finds Him, stays forever with him. -- Shams Tabrizi
  • But I do think its unwise, and it - to build a mosque at the site where 3,000 Americans lost their lives as a result of a terrorist attack. And I think to me it demonstrates that the - that Washington, the White House, the administration, the President himself seems to be disconnected from the mainstream of America. -- John Cornyn
  • Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming - the echo of God on the human wall! -- Victor Hugo
  • Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and that - it's astonishing. These numbers aren't duplicated anywhere else in the industrial world. You'd have to maybe go to mosques in Iran or do a poll among old ladies in Sicily to get numbers like this. Yet this is the American population. -- Noam Chomsky
  • We have too many mosques in America. -- Peter King
  • Dhaka the city of mosques has become the city of Hindu temples. -- Delwar Hossain Sayeedi
  • Churches and mosques you shall not heed / The religion of Albanians is Albanism -- Pashko Vasa
  • If synagogues are attacked, this would give Jewish extremists an excuse to attack mosques. -- Mohammed Dahlan
  • I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way. -- Yann Martel
  • Americans practice different faiths in churches, synagogues, mosques and temples. And many good people practice no faith at all. -- George W. Bush
  • There`s some nastiness, there`s some meanness there. There`s something going on in the mosques and other places. -- Donald Trump
  • But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans. -- Peter T. King
  • I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do -- Christopher Hitchens
  • We do have to look at the mosques very carefully. The mosques, a lot of things are happening in there, folks, a lot of things. -- Donald Trump
  • Most of the mosques were built in our cities in recent years because Turkish citizens in those neighborhoods feel a growing need for places to pray. -- Wolfgang Schauble
  • As a personal matter I don't give a damn where mosques, churches, temples or other religious shrines and symbols are built as long as they don't tear down decent saloons in the process. -- Bob Higgins
  • If we are not able to bring the churches, the synagogues, [and] the mosques around to the animal rights view, we will never make large-scale progress for animal rights in the United States. -- Norm Phelps
  • One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her; and the rule applies to Niagara Falls, to majestic mountains, and to mosques-especially to mosques. -- Mark Twain
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