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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.

— Salman Rushdie

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The man who buried Malcolm X - my Muslim imam, priest - he, after I got beat up by police... came to me, and he said, 'You don't need this American name.' And I was susceptible to it at the time because, God knows, I had just gotten whipped near to death. So he gave me an Arab name; he gave me the name Amir Barakat.

— Amiri Baraka

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.

— Cat Stevens

The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.

— Omar Sharif

Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.

— Basmah bint Saud

And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.

— Bear Grylls

You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.

— Daniel Pipes

I was born Muslim, but for a large part of my life, I wasn't necessarily raised Muslim. My father always kept everything around us, from Western philosophy to Eastern philosophy.

— Lupe Fiasco

The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man.

— Louis Farrakhan

✗Opposing Perspectives

I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.

— Imran Khan

Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.

— Hunter S. Thompson