Malcolm X Quotes

Was Sen. Barack Obama a Muslim? Did he ever practice Islam? The presidential candidate officially rejects the claims, but the issue of Obama's personal faith has re-emerged amid conflicting accounts of his enrollment as a Muslim during elementary school in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.

I am from Scotland, and I am Christian, not Muslim.

Every single interview I have ever done on TV or in print says I'm a Muslim.

I'm a good Muslim and I'm only interested in Islam.

I may be a good Catholic, a bad Catholic or a so-so Catholic, but that's who I am.

My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.

My family is Muslim. But I don't consider myself a very devout Muslim, but a cultural Muslim, whatever that means.

My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim.

All I'd like to say is that I am a patriotic, loyal American. I love my country and the values that it stands for. And I am a Muslim.

It takes a lot of courage, self-confidence, and stubbornness to be an openly committed Christian - or openly committed to any of the great religious traditions - as an undergraduate in selective colleges or in the honors programs of large universities.

Wearing hijab made you know that I was Muslim.

I wouldn't say I am practicing Muslim - I don't go to the mosque or anything, but it's part of my identity.

I'm not a practising Muslim.

I'm Muslim but not really. My family did not care. And I always managed to skip religion classes when I was living in the Gulf, even when they were obligatory.

I'm very proud to be of Muslim faith.

I would like to say that I am not an apostle of the Muslim religion.

I'd like to say is that I am a patriotic, loyal American. I love my country and the values that it stands for. And I am a Muslim.

I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.

I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.

I really really love Christ, but I'm not a Christian.

You may be Catholic or Protestant or Buddhist or Baptist or Muslim or Mormon or Jewish or Jain, or you have no religion at all. I'm not interested in your religious background. Because God did not create the universe for us to have religion. He came for us to have a relationship with him.

One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.

What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.

So often people will say that I converted to the Catholic religion. This is false. Although I was raised as a Protestant, I was never baptized and had never been a member of any church. I joined the Roman Catholic Church after I had written my Mass To Hope!During the night I dreamt the entire Lord's Prayer with chorus and orchestra. I jumped out of bed and wrote down what I had heard as accurately as I could remember. Because of this event I decided that I might as well join the Catholic Church because someone somewhere was pulling me toward that end.

Proud to be a Muslim isn't a stamp you have on your heart, it's a light you have in your heart.