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Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it`s helpful. So the fact that there won`t be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that`d be helpful.

- John Cusack

We deserve people who work in the White House who are committed to protecting classified information, telling the truth to the American people and living by example the idea that a country at war with Islamic extremists cannot focus its efforts on attacking other American citizens who simply tried to tell the truth.

- Larry Johnson

The mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian world are all on the same side. And we are against them all.

- Arundhati Roy

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.

- Cat Stevens

The truth about Hamas and Islamic Jihad is that they don`t prevent Israel from existing or even flourishing, they prevent Palestine from coming into existence.

- Michael Medved

The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.

- Pierre Salinger

Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right.

- Richard Perle

This was pure terror. And the seeds that we now see played out in so many countries in so many parts of the Islamic world,

- Robin Wright

And neither did we confuse the people who wanted to vote for us, in Pakistan the issue is not whether you are an Islamic Fundamentalist.

- Imran Khan

We have repeatedly issued warnings, over a number of years. Following these warnings and these calls, anti-American explosions took place in a number of Islamic countries.

- Osama bin Laden

The United States did not choose to fight Islamic extremists. These terrorists chose to fight our way of life. They chose to challenge our existence.

- John Boehner

I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we`re dead. They`re not going to give up their religion.

- Chris Matthews

We`ve got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we`re setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida.

- Chris Matthews

Five years from now, 10 years from now, there`s going to be a huge Islamic population in the world, they`re going to be nationalistic, they`re going to be religious, and they`re going to be militant.

- Chris Matthews

taught him about Islamic law.

- Kelly Moore

Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense.

- Oriana Fallaci

Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.

- Oriana Fallaci

We are not to be accused of an intention to establish an Islamic caliphate in Uzbekistan,

- Daniel Fried

Our resolution urges all Latin American and Caribbean countries to designate al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad as terrorist organizations.

- Tom Lantos

I consider Khomeini`s position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.

- Naguib Mahfouz

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.

- Naguib Mahfouz

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word "modernity" if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Neither the Iraqi people, nor other Arab governments nor indeed Islamic fundamentalists have any reason to admire or trust Saddam Hussein.

- Douglas Hurd

The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq.

- Bill Richardson

We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq.

- Michael Scheuer

For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other`s rights.

- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.

- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there.

- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.

- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!

- Ahmad Shah

Indonesians must understand that there is no Islamic state without the enforcement of Islamic laws. Otherwise it is just talk and nothing else.

- Ahmad Shah

At some point we must realize that actively defending against radical Islamic teachings is not a matter of cultural relativity. It is a matter of universally recognized human rights.

- Al Carter

It`s a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.

- Alan McGlade

If there are Muslims who believe that they`ve got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there`s no doubt about that.

- Alex Laughlin

Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism.

- Alfred Chan

The developing agenda of the Palestinians is that Israel is a foreign implant in the heart of the Islamic world, and all of its citizens are settlers.

- Alfred Chan

A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.

- Alice Billings

President Bush`s war on Iraq is viewed broadly in Islamic communities as an attack on Islam, and thus the President has alienated a large part of one fifth of the world`s population.

- Allama Iqbal

The most extreme individuals and factions in Islamic countries are now more motivated than ever to kill Americans, and the number of potential terrorists has greatly expanded.

- Allama Iqbal

But September 11 marked a big change in the sense that the public was suddenly interested, and as a professor at a public university I felt a responsibility to respond to all of the inquiries about the Islamic world.

- Allen Alley

Iran stands behind a substantial number of terrorist actions against us, together with Hizballah and the Islamic Jihad. It pretends to care for the Palestinians.

- Ambrose Redmoon

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

- Ambrosia Anderson

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

- Ambrosia Anderson

Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror.

- Amitabh Ray

Radical Islamic fundamentalists harbor contempt for our democratic way of life and, given the opportunity, will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal of bringing our country to its knees.

- Amy Coleman

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

- Amy Popp
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The truth is our country, our people, our liberties, and our way of life are under attack by radical Islamic terrorists who kill and destroy in the name of religion.

- Andrea Hoffman

The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse.

- Andrea Peiro

As far as the targets hit by the Islamic attackers, I do not consider the WTC a U.S. institution, but the headquarters of most that`s wrong with our present masters.

- Andrew Garrett

For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September 11th, 2001.

- Andrew Stotz