Marjane Satrapi Quotes

At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.

Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.

Holy war against lackeys, Jews, Christians and atheists.

It is tragic that all Arabs—all Moslems—are stereotyped because of the actions of a few.

… whose hatred of the Jews in unbridgeable.

A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.

Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying word.

9/11. For the West the attack on New York's World Trade Centre conjured up a terrifying new enemy: Islamic fundamentalism. For Muslims it appeared to open the floodgates to a new wave of hatred and discrimination. Suddenly, it seemed, racists had license to attack them, police to harass them, politicians and journalists to revile their religion.

the graffiti around the library contained several swastikas as well as a variety of "racist, derogatory, and sexist statements. The "most disappointing and discouraging" graffiti was in the men's bathroom. Scrawled on a stall in permanent marker, she says, were swastikas, racist phrases, and the words: "Hail President Trump!"

When we blame all Muslims, all Syrians, or all members of any other group because of the actions of individuals, we fall into the trap of asserting collective guilt. We empower the narrow-minded ideology that we are trying to defeat.

Not all Muslims are terrorists, but almost all terrorists are Muslims.

To characterize all Muslims as terrorists is fear-mongering of the worst kind.

It kind of goes without saying. But I will: If you are a Nazi, you aren't a fine person. You're bad.

Our enemy is hatred - the hatred inherent in fundamentalism.

The themes that I explore, Taika Waititi also explores: how teaching children a sense of 'us and them' breeds a sense of superiority and dehumanises what one perceives as 'otherness'; and why this theme is relevant to today's rise in the far-Right, how children and youth are indoctrinated into extremism and terrorism.

Donald Trump has been horrendous, saying things are bad because of Muslims or Mexicans. This is exactly what happened in the 1930s in Germany, and it's gonna get worse.

Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" . . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.

Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.

When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

We must fight intolerance, racism and the far-Right.

Yesterday's news feeds our fear that our neighbours are more likely than not to be bad eggs: benefit fraudsters, bogus asylum seekers, paedophiles or jihadist terrorists.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'

Americans have almost been conditioned to believe that the majority of people who seek to do us harm are those of Muslim descent.