#slam

We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is. ↗

— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#been #development #give #given #here

But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#contaminate #countries #democracy #designed #ideas

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark. ↗

— Mario Batali

#conversations #door #ever #expressions #family

Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#cultures #draw #good #i #indefensible

I'm growing as an individual, but your always growing. All of my albums are snapshots of where I am artistically. ↗

— Mos Def

#door #face #feels #firmly #i

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do. ↗

— Mos Def

#door #face #feels #firmly #i

My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#been #governments #invoking #islam #name

The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#also #better #certain #condition #conditions

If I'm going to be out there, I want to be in the top 10 and really have a chance of winning a Grand Slam. ↗

— Stefan Edberg

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The United States did not choose to fight Islamic extremists. These terrorists chose to fight our way of life. They chose to challenge our existence. ↗

— John Boehner

#choose #chose #did #existence #extremists