After the September 11, 2001 attacks, some described Islam as a religion of peace in an effort to differentiate between Islamic terrorists, Islamism, and non-violent Muslims. In the past the epithet "religion of peace" was applied to Christianity.
Quotes
- We know... that the war between the Jews and the Muslims is the work of the cursed devil. We know that Islam is named after peace.
- Shlomo Amar, in a letter criticizing the pope Benedict XVI for his remarks on Islam. (17/09/2006)
- Islam was never a religion of peace. Islam is the religion of fighting.
- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as quoted in "Islamic State releases 'al-Baghdadi message'", BBC (14 May 2015)
- I would not like to use big words to apply generic labels. It certainly contains elements that can favor peace, it also has other elements: we must always seek the best elements.
- Pope Benedict XVI, when asked by reporters if Islam is a religion of peace. "Pope says terror attacks cannot be defined as anti-Christian". Catholic News Agency. 2005-07-25. Retrieved on 2016-02-25.
- Freedom of expression cannot be the freedom to tell lies, the prophet did not found a terrorist religion, but a religion of peace.
- Dalil Boubakeur Prophet cartoons enraging Muslims. International Herald Tribune (2 February 2006). Retrieved on 2007-11-22.
- There is not a problem with Islam. For those of us who have studied it, there is no doubt about its true and peaceful nature.
- Tony Blair The Trouble Within Islam. Project Syndicate (June 10, 2013).
- The English translation is not as eloquent as the original Arabic, but let me quote from the Koran, itself: "In the long run, evil in the extreme will be the end of those who do evil. For that they rejected the signs of Allah and held them up to ridicule." The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That's not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don't represent peace. They represent evil and war.
- George W. Bush, in the wake of the September 11 attacks. Office of the Press Secretary (2001-09-17). "Islam is Peace" Says President. Press release.
- Islam is peace. He continues "These terrorists don't represent peace. They represent evil and war."
- George W. Bush — Remarks by the President at Islamic Center of Washington, D.C. (17 September 2001)
- They are killing and slaughtering thousands of people... they boast of their brutality... they claim to do this in the name of Islam, that is nonsense, Islam is a religion of peace. They are not Muslims, they are monsters.
- David Cameron, on ISIS; (14 September 2014)]
- Of course, this extremist ideology is not true Islam. That cannot be said clearly enough. But it is not good enough to say simply that Islam is a religion of peace and then to deny any connection between the religion of Islam and the extremists. Why? Because these extremists are self-identifying as Muslims.
- David Cameron, on Islamic extremism at 2015 Lord Mayor’s Banquet - "Lord Mayor’s Banquet 2015: Prime Minister’s speech" Gov.uk (16 November 2015)
- I’m tired of being told that Islam is a “Religion of Peace,” when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family “honor;” of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren’t “believers;” of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for “adultery;” of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur’an and Shari’a law tells them to.
- Robert A. Hall, I'm Tired (February 19, 2009)
- The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn't, we will kill you.
- Sam Harris Harris, Sam (5 May 2008). Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks. Huffingtonpost.com. (updated 25 May 2011)
- "Religion" is a nearly useless term. It's a term like "sports". Now there are sports like Badminton and sports like Thai Boxing, and they have almost nothing in common apart from breathing. There are sports that are just synonymous with the risk of physical injury or even death … There is, I'm happy to say, a religion of peace in this world, but it's not Islam. The claim that Islam is a religion of peace that we hear ceaselessly reiterated is completely delusional. Now Jainism actually is a religion of peace. The core principle of Jainism is non-violence. Gandhi got his non-violence from the Jains. The crazier you get as a Jain, the less we have to worry about you. Jain extremists are paralysed by their pacifism. Jain extremists can't take their eyes off the ground when they walk lest they step on an ant... Needless to say they are vegetarian. So the problem is not religious extremism, because extremism is not a problem if your core beliefs are truly non-violent. The problem isn't fundamentalism. We often hear this said; these are euphemisms... The only problem with Islamic fundamentalism are the fundamentals of Islam.
- Sam Harris, Lecture at the First Congregational Church of Berkeley (November 10, 2010)
- "Ramadan typically brings a spike in violence in Middle East. I get grumpy when I don't eat - but I don't blow things up. Religion of peace?"
- Katie Hopkins — Katie Hopkins : her most offensive quotes Daily Telegraph, 8 January 2015
- "Religion of peace" does not imply that Islam is a pacifist religion, that it rejects the use of violence altogether, as either a moral or a metaphysical evil. "Religion of peace" connotes, rather, that Islam can countenance a state of permanent, peaceful coexistence with other nations and peoples who are not Muslims...This position, I shall argue, is no more than the result of an objective application of principles of Islamic jurisprudence which no jurist or activist, medieval or modern, has claimed to reject.
- Sherman Jackson (Spring–Summer 2002)"Jihad and the Modern World". Journal of Islamic Law and Culture. Retrieved on 2007-11-22.
- "There are messages in here that we are all the same, regardless of our religions. Unite us, not divide us. Our cultures that follow these religions unite us. There is peace and harmony in these religions."
- Khizr Khan, Interview in New Day on CNN (August 1, 2016)
- Clearly Islam the religion is not the cause of terrorism. Islam, as I said, is a religion of peace. However through the centuries, deviations from the true teachings of Islam take place. And so [people who call themselves] "Muslims" kill despite the injunction of their religion against killing especially of innocent people.
- Mahathir bin Mohamad Islam, Terrorism, and Malaysia's Response (page 2). Asia Society (4 February 2002).
- Islam, it means peace, it stands for peace, it promotes peace, it teaches peace, and everything that you will achieve is peace. In this world peace, in the next peace, in your grave peace, with your children peace, in your environment peace. That is Islam. Anything that destroys that in any way is not Islam.
- The defeatists should fear Allah lest they distort this religion and cause it to become weak on the basis of the claim that it is a religion of peace. Yes, it is the religion of peace but in the sense of saving all of mankind from worshiping anything other than Allah and submitting all of mankind to the rule of Allah.
- Sayyid Qutb, Fiqh al-Da’wah. IslamQA. pp. 217–222. Retrieved on 2007-11-22.
- Most local imams in Dagestan shun radical views, but they have found it hard to counter the appeal of radical ideas promoted by the Islamic State. Some imams who spoke against radical Islam have been killed.” Why have they “found it hard to counter the appeal of radical ideas promoted by the Islamic State”? To Western leaders such as David Cameron, John Kerry, Joe Biden, Pope Francis, the U.S. Catholic bishops, and a host of others, it is patently obvious that the Qur’an teaches peace and that Islam is a religion of peace. So it ought to be child’s play for these imams in Dagestan to refute the twisted, hijacked version of Islam presented by the Islamic State. Here’s an idea: why doesn’t Barack Obama send Kerry to Dagestan to explain to young Muslims how the Islamic State is misunderstanding and misrepresenting Islam? Or maybe Pope Francis could go there, or he could send some Arabic-speaking Eastern Catholic bishop — say, one who knows that Islam is at its core a peaceful religion and who moves actively to silence and ostracize those who say otherwise — to the Islamic State, straight to Raqqa, to explain to the caliph how he is misunderstanding Islam. That would clear up this problem in a hurry. I volunteer to pay the bishop’s airfare.
- What I'm trying to do when I visit your beautiful country, Australia, is warn Australians that even though it might not be the case today, learn from the mistakes that we made in Europe: be vigilant and look at Islam for what it really is. Islam is not a religion of peace.
- Geert Wilders Anti-Islam campaigner coming to Australia. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Broadcast: 13/02/2013. Reporter: Tony Jones.
- Every day, we hear Western leaders repeat the sickening mantra that Islam is a religion of peace. Whenever an atrocity is committed in the name of Islam, whenever somebody is beheaded in Syria or Iraq, Barack Obama, David Cameron, my own Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and many of their colleagues rush to television cameras to tell the world that it has nothing whatsoever to do with Islam. How stupid can you be?
- Geert Wilders, Speech at the 10 years memorial conference forTheo Van Gogh arranged by the Danish Free Press Society (Copenhagen, 2 November 2014).
- I have a panic room in my house, where I am supposed to take refuge if one of the adherents of the "religion of peace" makes it past my permanent security detail and into my home. In fact, it's not really my home at all—I live in a government safe house, heavily protected and bulletproof. Since November 2004, when a Muslim murdered Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh for the crime of offending Islam, I have been surrounded by police guards and stripped of nearly all personal privacy. I am driven every day from the safe house to my office in the Dutch Parliament building in armored police cars with sirens and flashing blue lights. I wear a bulletproof jacket when I speak in public. Always surrounded by plainclothes police officers, I have not walked the streets on my own in more than seven years.
- Geert Wilders, Marked for Death, Ch. 1: "The Axe Versus the Pen", pp. 4–5 (2012)
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