Moslem Quotes
Munir was a strong advocate for civilian control over the military and as exposed many military atrocities and disappearances. He was poisoned on a Garuda Airlines flight to Holland where he was exposing more of the human rights violations of the Indonesian Military.
Dayan was a strong advocate for co-existence with the Arabs and an understanding of their frustrations and disappointments without bowing to the extremists who wanted to destroy Israel.
Here Khomeini takes the classic Islamic view of the Koran that leaders should be obeyed unless they do not follow Islam. To the leaders of Islamic nations, this means that even if the state is not a theocracy, the Muslim clergy has the final say as to whether a ruler may justly remain in power since they are the ones who determine if a ruler is properly following Islam.
Rebellion and revolution has always been unallowed in the Muslim religion.
This Arab nationalist leader was actually a Christian Orthodox by religion. He also tried to make the Baath party a secular state and he was a strong advocate of free speech and democracy. When the Islamic fundamentalists became important in Mid East Politics, the Baath Iraq Government under Saddam Hussein claimed, with no evidence, that Aflaq converted to Islam on his deathbed, thus making his philosophy more acceptable to the vast majority of Arabs.
She was referring to Malala, a young Pakistani girl who was shot and badly wounded in an assassination attempt. She had publicly advocated girls attendance at school—a practice banned by the ultra-fundamentalist Taliban.
His hope that the elite intelligentsia would lead the nation was thwarted by Islamic fundamentalism which destroyed most of Pakistan education by only teaching religion in its Madrassas and not allowing the leadership to have compulsory education. There has been an enormous brain drain with a huge number of the Pakistani intelligentsia on which Jinnah pinned his hopes, had no opportunity in Pakistan and emigrated to the United Kingdom and America.
“High conflict” is the euphemism that her center uses to describe Islamic terrorists as well as those who support their activities and positions.
Some Muslims claim that Jihad really means a struggle that does not necessarily involve weapons, killing, and may be directed at mastery of self and social improvements in a society. However, the majority of Muslims in the world seem to accept the description given be Assam. In 1989 Assam was fomenting his extremist view of Islam in Pakistan where he had his headquarters when a bomb blew up killing Azzam and his two sons. It is not known whether it was an accident with the explosives they were storing for terrorist activities or they were killed by another Islam faction. Sunni and Shiite are often at each other’s throats.
Although a Hindu, Nehru wrote of the atrophied Hindu society of India which enabled the Muslims to invade, conquer, and spread Islam over India.
In the recent years almost 300 physicians had been murdered by Muslim Sunni Fundamentalist Extremists, and the government had done little to protect them. See {591407} for a protest demonstration on the subject.
Although the Muslim invasion converted many with force and coercion (conversion by the sword) and used rape to produce a generation of youngsters who could be brought up as Muslims, many Hindus preferred the now religion for the above reasons. In addition, for all but the highest cast Brahmins, the cast system made Indians ripe for conversion to a religion that preached equality of all Muslims as a fundamental tenet. Islam was a much more modern and egalitarian religion.
This quotation is fascinating but sad. In 1902, Aga Kahn III and other Muslim reformers gathered to improve the terrible state of Muslim education. Muslims could attend the English operated public schools which were excellent, but the Imams fought these schools as they were purely secular and not under their control. Yet the Madrassas religious schools that then existed taught by rote and only Islamic religious content—no mathematics, science, other literature, art or anything else. Much of the teaching was religiously extreme with not even modern religious content. Over a century later the Schools of Pakistan—the Islamic nation carved out of India and those of most of the Arab nations are little better and despite a century of progress, the curriculum is the same.
