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There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.

— Abu Bakar Bashir

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans.

— Peter T. King

The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?

— Dennis C. Blair

The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.

— John Cornyn

In spite of this fact, the Western powers have never given sufficient importance to the Muslim world. They have always been inclined to treat it as a big backward and lethargic child.

— Aly Khan

Islamist terrorism is a cancer on Islam, and Muslims themselves must fight it at our side.

— Marine Le Pen

Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and the west. But a radical minority of Muslims firmly believes that Islam is under siege, and is committed to winning the holy war it has declared against the West.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

✗Opposing Perspectives

Every Muslim leader must unequivocally proclaim that terror committed in the name of Islam violates the core tenets of the Prophet Mohammed, and they must do so repeatedly. Period.

— Mike Pompeo

Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.

— Abu Bakar Bashir

There are millions and millions of patriotic Muslim Americans.

— Wolf Blitzer