Islam Quotes

Islam is nothing but man’s exclusive and total submission to God.

Those who criticize the most typically end up solving the least.

If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.

Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

No idea is above scrutiny. No idea whatsoever. To criticize, to scrutinize and to satirize my own religion Islam is not Islamophobia.

Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.

The divides are not Islam and western society, the divide is between people who have different values. We must promote connections between people who want to contribute to human values.

It’s not always the case that Muslims have been theocrats.

The Christian take on Hellfire seems less dramatic than the Muslim vision, which I grew up with, but Christian magical thinking appeals to me no more than my mother’s angels and djinns.

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.