Islamic Revolution Quotes

We shall export our revolution to the whole world. Until the cry ‘There is no God but God’ resounds over the whole world, there will be struggle.

We shall export our revolution to the whole world. Until the cry 'There is no God but God' resounds over the whole world, there will be struggle…. Establishing the Islamic state world-wide belong to the great goals of the revolution.

Muslims will not be victorious by nationalism, and not by monarchy, and not by democracy, and not by Marxism -- They will only be victorious by Islam.

Give them Islam, proclaim to the world the program of Islamic government; maybe the kings and presidents of the Muslim countries will understand the truth of what we say and accept it. We would not want to take anything away from them; we will leave anyone in his place who faithfully follows Islam.

Will Islam modernize or will it be stuck where it has been for hundreds of years?

Islam has been transformed from a religion to an ideology.

Al Qaeda's leaders seek to reverse what they claim are corrupt Islamic practices bookended by the Mongol invasions in 1256 and Ataturk's ending the caliphate in 1924. Theirs is a fight to turn Islam's clock back to the time of Prophet Muhammad's original followers.

Our goal is not ... the provinces, but the restoration of the caliphate and the rule of the Book of God throughout the Islamic nation.

When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.

Islam wishes to destroy all States and Governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and program of Islam regardless of the country or the Nation which rules it… In reality Islam is a revolutionary ideology and program which seeks to alter the social order of the whole world and rebuild it in conformity with its own tenets and ideals. 'Muslim' is the title of that International Revolutionary Party organized by Islam to carry into effect its revolutionary program. And 'Jihad' refers to that revolutionary struggle and utmost exertion which the Islamic Party brings into play to achieve this objective.

For most of the West, democracy has tempered literal religion. For the Islamic world, literal religion has inhibited and obstructed democracy.

In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.

I draw a distinction between traditional Islam and Islamism. Islamism emerged in its modern form in the 1920s and is driven by a belief that Muslims can be strong and rich again if they follow the Islamic law severely and in its entirety. This is a response to the trauma of modern Islam.

The Islamic awakening began as a spiritual, an individual event, but it has become increasingly political.

Just as not all socialists were proto-Stalinists, not all Islamists want to implement a theocratic regime.

Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.

I think the Shiites want a theocracy.

There is an ideology problem in Islam. We need to revolutionize our religion.

… the Middle East has experienced a general ‘Islamization’ and radicalization of society ensuing from the rigid religious and often intolerant character of the civil society organizations now performing functions previously in the hands of state authorities.

Iran is not a nation-state; it's a revolutionary cause devoted to mayhem.

The mujahid Islamic movement will not achieve victory against the global infidel alliance unless is possesses a base in the heart of the Islamic world.

The growth of Islamic Fundamentalism is an earthquake.

What is really happening here is the radicalization of the Moslems throughout the world.

Islam will rule the world!

Jihad is the struggle for Muslim society to rule the entire world.