The problem of Islam as a political force is an essential one for our time and for the years to come, and we cannot approach it with a modicum of intelligence if we start out from a position of hatred.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The great majority of Americans do not know much about Islam but nonetheless fear it as violent, expansionist and alien to their society. The problem to overcome is not hatred, but ignorance.
The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.
If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which Muslim countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
The only way we can challenge Islamism is to engage with one another. We need to make it as abhorrent as racism has become today. Only then will we stem the tide of angry young Muslims who turn to hate.
I'm concerned that Islam has not just been politicised but that it's becoming an identity. This is like turning religion into a football match; it's a distraction from the real thing.
We are in a global war with a radical and violent form of the Islamic religion, and it is irresponsible and dangerous to deny it.
We must remember that Islam is not an enemy, and we have no war with Islam.
Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.
Islamist terrorism is a cancer on Islam, and Muslims themselves must fight it at our side.
No opposing quotes found.