Quotes of: Koran Keyword

Well, it is true that they did - the Pentagon did impose rules for governing the handling of the Koran in January of 2003, after there had been complaints about the handling of the Koran from detainees, from the International Red Cross.

Michael Isikoff

They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, answered as follows: 'If the books of this library contain matters opposed to the Koran, they are bad and must be burned. If they contain only the doc...

Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (1st Discourse) and Polemics

We will definitely not burn the Koran, no. Not today, not ever.

Terry Jones

Ich mögte beten wie Moses im Koran: Herr mache mir Raum in meiner engen Brust.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For deep adherents, the Koran would seem to echo great truths given directly to a vaunted and hallowed prophet by a deity of overwhelming power and grandeur. If you don’t hold any such archaic notions, however, the words attributed to Allah come ac...

Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works

Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, perhaps only 300 million actually understand the language of the Koran.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.

Malcolm X

You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.

Daniel Pipes

Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.

Karen Armstrong

We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.

Sam Harris

A lot of the Koran does not speak very eloquently to a Westerner. Much of it is either legalistic or opaquely poetic.

John Updike

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

Naguib Mahfouz

Again and again, when Westerners are perceived as denigrating Muhammad, the Koran, or Islam, Islamists demonstrate, riot or kill.

Daniel Pipes

People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero.

Sarah Palin

I read the Koran and it appealed to me. At the time I was agnostic and it really breathed spiritually back into me. For me it's really a cushion; it's cool, I'm cool with it.

Q-Tip

In the history of the prophetic biblical canon that starts with Genesis, the Koran is by far the most tolerant of the views of other religions.

Reza Aslan

The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

Salman Rushdie

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

Christopher Hitchens

Where was this written? I wondered. Where in the Talmud or the Koran or the Bible did it say, "Lo, and Satan fetcheth the coffee for the Antichrist and her minions"?

Apocalypse Array

Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?

Taslima Nasrin

When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent.

Michel Houellebecq