Louay M. Safi quotes

Louay M. Safi quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Robert Spencer, a prolific anti-Islam writer and a leading Islamophobe who is bent on distorting Islam and demonizing Muslims, has persistently argued that violence and terrorism employed by Muslim extremists is rooted in the Quran and its message. Spencer calls the Quran, a book sacred to Muslim, 'the jihadists' Mein Kampf,' in reference to Hitler's memoir.”
-- Louay M. Safi

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“An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I'm instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I've come up with a fantastic little device which I'll call a box of matches.”
“Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.”
“And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.”
“Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.”
“We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?”

Source : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.
“If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.”

Source : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.
“We have not ceased to insist that an Islam of tolerance is advantageous to all Muslims, for the Afghans and the whole world and we will always defend it.”
“The road to the sacred leads through the secular.”
“People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.”
“But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.”

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