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To be slapped with a shoe is a dirty insult in the Muslim world. -- Richard Engel
The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism. -- Dennis Prager
I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture. -- Salman Rushdie
I want to have a president in the U.S. who tries to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world. -- Imran Khan
It's no surprise that the Bush administration's bullying swagger and blithe ignorance have caused much of the Muslim world to hold the U.S. in rock-bottom regard. -- Graydon Carter
Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and notably the US. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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It isn't those of us who oppose American aggression in the Muslim world who need manipulative, exploitative reminders about 9/11; it's those who cheer for these policies who are making a follow-up attack ever more likely. -- Glenn Greenwald
In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion. -- Al-Waleed bin Talal
In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.' -- Malcolm X
The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marathon of political, economic and human development. For that, there is a tendency to blame others as the primary cause. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Who cares if virtually the entire world views Obama's drone attacks as unjustified and wrong? Who cares if the Muslim world continues to seethe with anti-American animus as a result of this aggression? Empires do what they want. -- Glenn Greenwald
Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka. -- James Buchan
Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect. -- James Buchan
It's very alarming to see what's happening in the Muslim world. And it's about time we come to our senses and realize that moderation is the only path that will ensure peace and stability for the Muslim world, and for the wider world. -- Najib Razak
The Muslim world just doesn't believe that skin color is all that important. Obama may be half-black, but he's still all-Western, according to them. It doesn't matter whether you're black, white or green - if you're not a devotee of Muhammad, you don't matter. -- Ben Shapiro
I think perhaps Pakistan can take the lead. Perhaps Turkey can as well, being part of Europe. But someone has to start talking about why the Muslim world has become a boiling pot and look beyond these cartoons to what the ideological reasons are for this divide. -- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Fundamentalism as it is called is not confined to the Muslim world. It is something that we have seen in different parts of the world. Let us hope that a dialogue between the followers of the three great monotheistic religions could help in putting an end to this. -- King Hussein I
Obama's entire foreign policy was predicated on the notion that by existing, he would bridge all gaps and bury all hatchets. Instead, the Muslim world burns his picture even as he tells them he respects their radicalism. It turns out that diversity is a one-way street for the devotees of global Islam. -- Ben Shapiro
To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding ourselves with euphemisms. We're talking about Islam being a religion of peace that's been hijacked by extremists. If ever there were a religion that's not a religion of peace, it is Islam. -- Sam Harris
Every new president flatters himself that he, kinder and gentler, is beginning the world anew. Yet, when Barack Obama in his inaugural address reached out to Muslims by saying, 'To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect,' his formulation was needlessly defensive and apologetic. -- Charles Krauthammer
I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman. The clerics took to the mosque saying that Pakistan had thrown itself outside the Muslim world and the Muslim umar by voting for a woman, that a woman had usurped a man's place in the Islamic society. -- Benazir Bhutto
America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam. -- Malcolm X
One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
The opposition tried to brand us as the 'Ground Zero megamosque.' The language was deliberately wordsmithed in order to arouse hostility against us. But the idea that the Jewish mayor of New York City and the president of the United States supported a mosque at Ground Zero, and took a lot of flak for it, raised their stature in the Muslim world. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years. -- Juan Cole
Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
We don't understand enough about the Islam religion and Muslim world. -- Madeleine Albright
I think that Hassan Nasrallah is the best leader in the Muslim world. -- George Galloway
Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world. -- Otto Schily
I think it's hard to talk about the Muslim world and Christian world as blocks. -- Samuel P. Huntington
From the beginning, the United States has enjoyed close and valued ties with the Muslim world. -- Jimmy Carter
The Muslim world is deeply hurt by the campaign of violence initiated against our Palestinian brothers. -- Ahmet Necdet Sezner
The Muslim world is deeply hurt by the campaign of violence initiated against our Palestinian brothers. -- Ahmet Necdet Sezner
One thing I agree with Donald Trump on is, there's something going on in the Muslim world. -- Michael T. Flynn
There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you. -- Geena Davis
The increasing mistrust between the Arab-Muslim peoples and the western world is rooted in the conflict in Palestine. -- Ismail Haniyeh
The Muslim world suffers from internal divisions, antidemocratic practices, and the violation of fundamental human rights and freedoms. -- Fethullah Gulen
If you actually took the number of Muslims Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world. -- Barack Obama
I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
Iraq was home of the Abbasid Caliphate, a golden age when the Muslim world was at the forefront of math, science and medicine. -- Richard Engel
The unimaginable brutality of this latest manifestation of Political Islam in the Arab world is too much to bear for many Muslim Arab -- Hisham Melhem
My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect. -- Barack Obama
Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements...the Muslim genius has added much to the culture of all peoples. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We need a strategy to destroy ISIS there. You can't do that without the cooperation of the Muslim world because they're as threatened as we are. -- Jeb Bush
Now the canvas is not just my country Pakistan, but now the canvas is the entire world. Now the canvas is the entire ummah (Muslim nation). -- Junaid Jamshed
People came as immigrants from all over the world, and Hindu and Muslim and Buddhist and Sikh communities became part of the landscape of the U.S. -- Diana L. Eck
It's always been my belief that the victory of Islam will never take place until a Muslim state is established.. in the heart of the Islamic world. -- Bill Vaughan
The truth of the matter is that although not all Muslims are terrorists, unfortunately, in today's world, most of the terrorists - 99 per cent - are Muslim. -- Shohreh Aghdashloo
The logic of freedom of religion implies freedom to be an atheist, even though, from a historical perspective, this has not been accepted in the Muslim world. -- Tariq Ramadan
We need a president that shows the courage that Egypt's President al-Sisi, a Muslim, when he called out the radical Islamic terrorists who are threatening the world. -- Ted Cruz
The late King's great service for the Muslim world and his noble deeds of charity and assistance for the poor of humanity will be long remembered with reverence. -- Khaleda Zia
Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the 'Wall Street Journal.' -- Noam Chomsky
US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan. -- Daniel Barenboim
The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history, part of the fundamental, mainstream ideals of Islam. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
I think we've seen at least the beginnings of rather significant social and economic change in the Muslim world, which I think will in due course lead to more political change. -- Samuel P. Huntington
The idea that I had anything to do with speaking about Islam or about the Muslim world was just absurd to my family. ... I hadn't been to the mosque in like 10 years. -- Aasif Mandvi
There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits. -- Salman Rushdie
The Muslim religion is so unreformed since it was created that nowhere in the Muslim world has there been any real advance in science, or art or literature, or technology in the last 500 years. -- Norman Tebbit
You see that wealth is scattered all across the Muslim world but not a single TV channel has been acquired which can preach Islamic injunctions according to modern requirements and attain an international influence. -- Osama bin Laden
In the Muslim world, much of it, they cannot conceive of something coming out of the United States that wouldn't be sanctioned by the government, because in their countries, everything is sanctioned by the government. -- Bill Maher

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