Noureen DeWulf Quotes

If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.

Sometimes my ethnicity is relevant, other times not. I definitely get the best of both worlds.

By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.

Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity.

We in the West tend to think of a nation subdivided into different religions. Islam sees itself as a religion subdivided into different nations.

To the millions of non-Christians who live in this country, “our” culture is not their culture and they have not assimilated Christmas carols. Most people take their religion far too seriously to look upon religious songs as forms of art only. The day “Silent Night” is sung in Buddhist Temples and Jewish Synagogues throughout the United States is the day that “Silent Night” will have been assimilated into “our” culture.”

I come from a Muslim family. The label 'Muslim' is one aspect of me, but it's not the only part of me.

I am not only a Parsi, I am a Kashmiri too.

I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

I'm unique - a cosmopolitan mix.

We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.

For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.

My family is first-generation Nigerian, and we grew up in a very small, suburban town in New England, Massachusetts. So I do understand what it feels like to be an 'only' in that regard.

The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society. Promote the universal principles of justice and freedom, and leave the societies elsewhere to find their model of democracy based on their collective psychology and cultural heritage.

I don't teach my children what is Hindu and what is Muslim.

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.

I grew up in Wakefield, Mass., and there were only a couple of Jewish families in the town.

The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity.

My culture comes from everywhere. I'm sick of this notion of nationality, that if you're brought up in the same city or same country you're the same. Even three kids brought up in the same family with the same genes, they are not the same. Just consider a human a human.

II grew up in Australia, but I'm not from there originally. Like, my dad's South American, so I know what that's like to grow up in a culture that's not your own.

When I go to Iran, I see... that there are all different shades and colors in Iran, from atheist to religious zealot. So Iran is no different than any other country. I mean, they are connected with the rest of the world.

I wasn't cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.

I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people.

I am Jewish, Italian, American, Catholic.

England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'.