Top Islamism Quotes
Hitherto, the Palestinians had been relatively immune to this style. I thought this was a hugely retrograde development. I said as much to Edward. To reprint Nazi propaganda and to make a theocratic...
Christopher Hitchens
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fascism, islam, muslims, united states, leftists, theocracy, christians, israel, religious extremism, oil
Islamism Definition
(n.) The faith, doctrines, or religious system of the Mohammedans; Mohammedanism; Islam.
Shrouded as he was for a decade in an apparent cloak of anonymity and obscurity, Osama bin Laden was by no means an invisible man. He was ubiquitous and palpable, both in a physical and a cyber-spectr...
Christopher Hitchens
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death, life, music, literature, feminism, secularism, theocracy, iraq, osama bin laden, terrorism
We don't have the luxury to say that, there is no hope for reform in Islam, because by saying this, we would be disavowing the entire peace-loving Muslim population of the world. We cannot leave our M...
Abhijit Naskar
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religion, humanity, spirituality, inspiring, humanism, harmony, islam, muslims, peace on earth, fundamentalism
It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradictions of a moment, and to personalize or 'objectify' them in the figure of one individual. Yet ordina...
Christopher Hitchens
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history, religion, evil, islam, liberty, theocracy, napoleon, cults of personality, osama bin laden, terrorism
In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big pictures and grand narratives, its hard-nosed disenchantment with the metaphysical, 'life' is one am...
Terry Eagleton
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faith, life, religion, philosophy, belief, islam, metaphysics, pragmatism, capitalism, postmodernism
Antisemitism is unique among religious hatreds. It is a racist conspiracy theory fashioned for the needs of messianic and brutal rulers, as dictators from the Tsars to the Islamists via the Nazis have...
Nick Cohen
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religion, women, bigotry, racism, islam, sexism, feminism, catholicism, dictatorship, conspiracy theories