Frankie Boyle Quotes

The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life.

The medieval Islamic world, from Central Asia to the shores of the Atlantic, was a world where scholars and men of learning flourished. But because we have tended to see Islam as the enemy of the West, as an alien culture, society, and system of belief, we have tended to ignore or erase its great relevance to our own history.

Iraq was home of the Abbasid Caliphate, a golden age when the Muslim world was at the forefront of math, science and medicine.

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

Let me put it this way: There is nothing in Islam that is fundamentally against the quest for knowledge.

Damascus was the seat of the Ummayad Caliphate in the 7th and 8th centuries.

In Islam's golden age, so much progress was made that it became the basis of the European Renaissance. We Muslims have to change ourselves, that's the main difference. We can't keep blaming America or Israel for our misery.

The superiority of the Arab civilization, especially in Spain and Sicily, was the chief agency which awakened Europe after six centuries of barbarism.

Islam was Europe's teacher. From the eighth to the 12th centuries.

Saudi Arabia is defined and represented by its Islamic stature.

In the Muslim-majority countries you can't do without Islam, we can't do without their culture, in which way they are going to come back to this Islamic reference to find a way to deal with the true challenges and not the superficial political questions.

I made the film to bring the story of Islam, the story of 700 million of people, to the West.

The French have a very deep knowledge of Islam in many areas, and we can exchange views.

The Council of Islamic Affairs is doing a great service to the world by promoting a greater understanding in America of the rich heritage of the Islamic peoples and their hopes and aspirations for the future.

I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim.

Amr ibn Al-'Aas has an important place in Islam and therefore we will not permit any secularist to deride him.

How can one ignore the role of Islamic culture in European civilization?

I am a Muslim first and I am a Muslim last. I have a British passport, but we are defined by our beliefs…. Wherever I am, I will propagate Islam.

I'm not a scholar of Islamic history or jurisprudence or anything.

One of the basic principles when you dealing with mathematics and Islam: Seek knowledge.

The Islamic culture is a question mark for many people across the world, but Qatar opens its doors to supporters all over the world so they can learn from this old culture.

To claim that ISIS is Islamic is egregiously inaccurate and empirically unsustainable, not to mention insulting to the 1.6 billion non-violent adherents of Islam across the planet.

When I'm out of town, I always try to get some readings or some type of new information to where I'm learning more about Islam, just to become the best Muslim I can become.

In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.

There are millions and millions of Sufis who have existed in Islamic history and have the deepest impact on every aspect of Islamic culture and civilization to philosophy to art to science to social structure to economics who have not met the destiny of al-Hallaj.