Ibrahim Hooper Quotes

Non-Muslims with some justice now regard the Muslims as little better than animals.

Muslims are like wild dogs. You can't deal with them, you can only kill them.

Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.

Immigration was fine until the wretched Muslims came.

I am not saying all Muslims are wrong or are terrorists or criminals. You will never hear me say that.

Our culture is a very diverse one, and I think now it is incredibly dangerous and very wrong to persecute Muslims and say there is something wrong with being a Muslim.

Do I disagree that we need to ban all Muslims from entering the country? Yes, I disagree with that strongly.

Are we willing and able to stand up to Islamophobia on days when there are not brutal terrorist attacks on Muslims in mosques?

There is serious Islamophobia in the world.

I can cite a chapter and verse of literature at the times saying Italians don't speak our language, these folks coming from other places - it sounds identical to what you are saying about Muslims now. It really does.

If you put a pistol against my head and ask which I think is worse, Muslims or Mexicans, I'd have to think a moment, then I'd say the Muslims because they've broken my balls.

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

My tenure at 'The Daily Show' started during the decade after September 11, and fear of Muslims was at an all-time high. Politicians and the media seemed to dial the fright, mistrust, and animosity up to a fever pitch to gain votes and ratings.

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

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.

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

A kind of racism still exists in the United States, and Islamophobia is a more convenient way to express that sentiment. There has also been an attempt to paint Muslims as enemies of the United States.

A businessman admits that he 'let go' an employee because he was a Sunni Muslim. You simply have to look after yourself, he explains. I am shocked, like a good Westerner should be.

When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it.

Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks.

Well, I try to not view things through a prism of anti-Semitism, because often, people will use that as a sort of knee-jerk reaction to any criticism of Jews.

I figure if people don't want to make the distinction between a Muslim and a terrorist, then why should I make a distinction between good scared white people and racists?

You see, that's the problem I have with 'you people.'

Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.

To suggest that a Muslim cannot think for himself sounds to me very much like an incident of anti-Muslim bigotry.