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To me, the outsider is God, ... If you take extreme fundamentalist Muslims, who believe it`s sent down from Allah that destroying the infidel is their duty, and then if you take the extreme fundamentalists on the Christian right, God got disenfranchised somewhere in that deal a long, long time ago. The minute you start saying `I`m the only one that`s right,` you have lost it, as far as I`m concerned.

- Rodney Crowell

Islam promotes the killing of innocent people. The Quran requires the infidel, whether Jew or Christian, to be killed. ... That`s a core essence of the religion. ... Muhammad was a pirate who killed infidels and who advocated the killing of infidels. Not a nice guy. Osama bin Laden is in keeping with his fine tradition.

- Jack Thompson

Infidel: In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does

- Ambrose Bierce

Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great moments of their life, the moments of their deepest, most agonising spiritual difficulties, cling only to the free verdict of the heart? Oh, Thou didst know that Thy deed would be recorded in books, would be handed down to remote times and the utmost ends of the earth, and Thou didst hope that man, following Thee, would cling to God and not ask for a miracle. But Thou didst not know that when man rejects miracle he rejects God too; for man seeks not so much God as the miraculous. And as man cannot bear to be without the miraculous, he will create new miracles of his own for himself, and will worship deeds of sorcery and witchcraft, though he might be a hundred times over a rebel, heretic and infidel.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor.", infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

- Wendell Phillips