Matteo Salvini Quotes

Islam is not the enemy, religious extremism is.

The blatant aggressiveness of theocracies I find distressing, because I grew up when Christians, Muslim and animists lived peacefully together.

Unfortunately, a certain type of Islam ghettoizes itself and is incompatible with our society. And it amazes me that some within the Catholic hierarchy act as if they do not understand.

The Wahhabi movement is a form of radical Islam that people here say did not exist before in Bosnia, where Islam had co-existed with other major religions and was much softer and more liberal.

Muslims must learn that if they make belligerent and fanatical claims upon the tolerance of free societies, they will meet the limits of that tolerance.

As Commander of the Faithful, it is out of the question that I fight Islam. We need to fight violence and ignorance. It is true, when one strolls out, one sees women with scarves and men with beards. This has always been the case in Morocco. Morocco is built on tolerance.

We've got to find ways of confronting the issues that divide - and at the heart of cultural issues, you often find religions.

It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure.

We will definitely not burn the Koran, no. Not today, not ever.

We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam.

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.

You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.

Islamic fundamentalism in its activist manifestation is bad news. Religious fundamentalism in general is bad news. We know about religious fundamentalism in South Africa. Calvinist fundamentalism has been an unmitigated force of benightedness in our history.

Every adult is free to choose his own religion, but fanaticism has to be fought lest freedom perish.

There can be no living culture in the world if you cannot criticize its foundations –- the religion. We lack the courage to ask any question about any religious issue. For example, as a Muslim, I cannot say a single word about the Prophet Moses. The Prophet Moses did not say anything to me as a Muslim, whereas the Israeli Jew can criticize Moses and all the prophets in the Torah, and he can even question the divinity of the Torah. We, in Arab society, do not understand the meaning of freedom. We say that freedom means writing an article. Freedom is much deeper than that.

The only place in the Middle East where you can find moderate Moslems speaking is in those international conferences sponsored by Westerners…. They cannot have much of an influence if they are undermined by the majority and the fundamentalist clergy.

We must work with moderate Moslems who are also the victims of Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism.

The borders of Islam are bloody.

There shall not be two religions in Arabia.

... Jews, heathens, and other dissenters.

Turkey is not right for the EU. Islam is too aggressive a religion.

May we at this stage remind our Muslim brothers that they do not have the monopoly of violence in this nation. Nigeria belongs to all of us –-- Christians, Muslims and members of other faiths. No amount of intimidation can Change this time-honored arrangement in this nation. The Christian Association of Nigeria. may no longer be able to contain our restive youths should this ugly trend continue.

Most victims of terrorism have been Muslim. So there’s not a war between Muslims and non-Muslims, but between extremists and moderates of all the religions.

There is a battle going on and we have to defend ourselves. Before you know it there will be more mosques than churches!

If we … are going to ask the decent, silent majority of Muslim men -- and women -- to have the courage to face down the extremist bullies, then we need to have the courage and character to stand shoulder to shoulder with them doing it.