Michael Muhammad Knight quotes
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“If Islam was to be saved, it would be saved by the crazy ones.”
-- Michael Muhammad KnightSource : Michael Muhammad Knight (2004). “The Taqwacores”, p.38, Autonomedia
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“If Allah wants to send me a message, he'll do so on the faces of my brothers and sisters.”
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“Allah is too big and open for my deen to be small and closed.”
-- Michael Muhammad KnightSource : Michael Muhammad Knight (2004). “The Taqwacores”, p.185, Autonomedia
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“The jamaat was an almost silly mish-mash of people: Rude Dawud’s pork-pie hat poking up here, a jalab-and-turban there, Jehangir’s big Mohawk rising from a sea of kufis, Amazing Ayyub still with no shirt, girls scattered throughout – some in hejab, some not and Rabeya in punk-patched burqa doing her thing. But in its randomness it was gorgeous, reflecting an Islam I felt could not happen anywhere else ... If Islam was to be saved, it would be saved by the crazy ones: Jehangir and Rabeya and Fasiq and Dawud and Ayyub and even Umar.”
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“Hanukkah is...the festival of lights, instead of one day of presents, we get eight crazy nights”
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“Those who criticize the most typically end up solving the least.”
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Source : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.
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“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
Source : Aaron Copland (1959). “The pleasures of music”
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Source : Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.70, Three Rivers Press
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“Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.”
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