Barack Obama Quotes

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.

Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.

The borders of Islam are bloody.

When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined [Among Christians].

There are many Muslims of good will and despise this extremism as much as anyone of any other faith.

Muslims are not our enemy.

We must remember that Islam is not an enemy, and we have no war with Islam.

In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.

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

Al-Qa'ida seeks to portray America as an enemy of the world's Muslims. But President Obama has made it clear that the United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.

Despite differences of faith or even the occasional collisions between them, Egypt is united.

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.

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

People call us [Moslems] terrorists while ours is a religion of peace.

… tolerance is essential to protect one's own religion and one's own deeply held religious beliefs from external manipulation or efforts to overcome them, perhaps from other religions that are pushing in the opposite direction. That is the basic reason for religious tolerance.

If al-Qaida is Muslim, then I am Buddha.

There is No Hindu, There is No Muslim.

Muslims who don’t hate America sin

Islam is not the enemy, religious extremism is.

It's the responsibility of men of religion to ... present religion as a way of tolerance, not as a cover for bloodshed.

Muslims and Christians are brothers.

Osama bin Laden's hijacked planes not only attacked the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. They also attacked Islam as a faith. They attacked the values of tolerance and coexistence that Islam preaches.

There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.

All of us here today understand this: We do not fight Islam, we fight against evil.