Najat Vallaud-Belkacem Quotes

Prohibiting a visible religious sign, which isn't a manifestation of militancy, would look like a fight against religions.

I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslims.

This history of a secular state doesn't exist, no. The state is Christian, and those who are against it can leave.

The religion that has to be supported by law is without value, not only, but a fraud and a curse. The religious argument that has to be supported by a musket is hardly worth making.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

This is in part because of the government's criminal negligence; has it not permitted them [Christian Copts] to build new churches, though there are more than enough of them in a country where over ninety percent of the inhabitants are Muslims; has the regime not let them parade their religious affiliation in public (for example, crosses on car stickers and dresses), which is a sheer provocation to Muslims?

So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.

It is intolerable that in our country citizens should feel so upset and under assault because of their religious choice that they would conclude that they have to hide.

Many in our increasingly secular culture want to chase Christians out of the public square altogether.

In some countries, if you carry the Gospel, you can go to jail. You can't carry a cross, because you'll have to pay a fine. But still, the heart rejoices.

I was often looked at as a leper by kids at school because I was a Jehovah's Witness. They didn't like it - you were 'weird'. And on Saturday mornings, you'd be knocking at their doors. I remember standing there with my mum and dad, thinking, 'Oh my God, I know whose door this is, and I'll have to see them on Monday.' It was terrible.

Perhaps more than ever before, there is that aggressive secularism and there are those who would indeed try to destroy our Christian heritage and culture and take God from the public square. Religion must not be taken from the public square.

We have taken God out of our education system. We have taken Him out of government. You have lawyers that sue you every time you mention the name of Jesus Christ in any public forum.

The Roman Catholics must know as well as we do that 'Popery' when encouraged by government has always been dangerous to the liberties of the people.

Persecution of Christians is growing around the world, and Congress needs to pay more attention to it.

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

Those who deny the existence of a supreme being have been turned into second-class citizens by a government that continuously sends messages that 'real Americans' believe in God.

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.

I don't think my religious convictions should be held against me.

Saudi Arabia inflames the Sunni-Shiite divide and sets a pernicious example of intolerance by banning churches.

I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that 'all religions are basically the same.' If all religions were indeed the same, why not let someone be 'converted' to another religion?

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

I don’t see a bit of danger from us having an established religion.

Kill the unbelievers wherever you find them, capture and besiege them and prepare for them every kind of ambush…But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free.