Pamela Geller Quotes

Terrorism is a part of mainstream Islam. The Koran preaches violence.

I can find for you in any holy book, the Koran, the Bible, violent prescriptions.

I don't like to speak of Islamic violence, because every day, when I browse the newspapers, I see violence, here in Italy... this one who has murdered his girlfriend, another who has murdered the mother-in-law... and these are baptized Catholics! There are violent Catholics!

Much to my surprise, the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less violent than those in the Bible.

The New Testament is not new anymore' it's thousands of years old. It's time to start calling it the Less Old Testament.

Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence.

There's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Qur'an, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bible, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bhaghavad Gita, or of the Book of Mormon, or of the other sacred texts of many of those religions.

More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.

Religion cannot and should not be understood by their texts alone. The lived history of a community of believers defines a religion; a great deal depends on how the custodians of the faith chose to interpret, defend and exploit or abuse its sacred texts.

Verses of the Koran and of the Prophet are being isolated and used to justify violence.

The Koran says that it is the duty of Muslims to bring terror to the enemy, so being a terrorist makes me a good Muslim.

Religion can turn holy stories into flaming swords.

To fill a world with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

We may fight terrorism through brute force, but the terror that is unleashed in the name of religion can only be challenged through moral courage.

Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.

I don't believe a religion affords any protection if they are connected to any kind of terror.

After the horrific massacre Wednesday at the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, perhaps the West will finally put away its legion of useless tropes trying to deny the relationship between violence and radical Islam.

No one must use the name of God to commit violence. To kill in the name of God is a grave sacrilege. To discriminate in the name of God is inhuman.

A key difference between Christianity and Islam is that Muslims believe that the Koran contains verbatim the word of God; it is written in the imperative. This precludes a comparison with Christianity.

I studied scriptural interpretation, which is more about how people get meaning out of texts, looking at stuff in the Old Testament - Muslims, Christians, Jews, different interpretations of the same texts.