Mehdi Hasan Quotes

In this part of the world, Jews and Arabs will live together forever.

It is very important that the world know that there have been 500 years of peaceful coexistence in Turkey between the Jews and Moslems.

All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.

North Eurasia is one of the best examples of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence of Islam and Christianity. This is a rare thing in today's world, even in its most liberal parts.

The sword is too much in evidence among Mussalmans [Muslims]. It must be sheathed if Islam is to be what it means—peace.

We want to lead normal lives, lives where our religion and our traditions translate into tolerance, so that we coexist with the world and become part of the development of the world.

Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.

Here in North Jersey, our Muslim community is essential to our social fabric.

There is tolerance within our community, Muslims and Christians living together in harmony. These traditional values we have should be enhanced.

Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government.

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

In America, we're trying to find a peaceful solution in the Middle East and we're not going to be divided along any lines, including religious lines, including ethnic backgrounds.

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.

But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort.

There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And it wants peace.

In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.

May peace rule the universe, may peace rule in kingdoms and empires, may peace rule in states and in the lands of the potentates, may peace rule in the house of friends and may peace also rule in the house of enemies.

We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other people's religion, and we have a long tradition of that.

In London we give ourselves a pat on the back, rightly, for not killing one another, for our prejudice being subtle rather than lethal.

How do we stop ourselves from blowing each other up because we think that God wants us to blow each other up.

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realized they can't get away with it.

The main hope of harmony in our troubled world lies rather in the plurality of our identities, which intertwine with each other and are resistant to drastic divisions

Today we must secure not a clash between civilizations, but a reconciliation and bringing together of the values of Islam and Christianity.

If you were to really look for major shared space [by Catholics & Protestants] in Belfast, I think you’d find it quite problematic to locate them.

There's no reason we can't all live harmoniously together, and that's what I would say to the head of Iran.