Rachel Maddow Quotes

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

I don't hate Muslims. I hate Islam.

Not all Muslims are terrorists, but almost all terrorists are Muslims.

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.

Unfortunately, there's been a lot of very divisive, dark things said about Muslims.

It's been our experience that any time a Muslim community anywhere seeks to expand or establish a mosque or some other kind of institution, there will be some type of opposition, when you scratch the surface, often there is a tremendous level of bigotry and stereotyping in the opposition.

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.

Does every Muslim commit terror? Of course not.

Not every Muslim is out to get us.

The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.

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

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.

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.

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

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

Hostility towards Islam and Muslims has been a feature of European societies since the eighth century of the Common Era.

Muslims have been hating us for centuries ….

While Islamophobia like anti-Semitism is centuries old, it too will not be eradicated easily or soon.

For every Farrakhan who riles and poisons black America, there are twenty white bigots who seek to take us into organized murder and mayhem.

Immigration was fine until the wretched Muslims came.

9/11. For the West the attack on New York's World Trade Centre conjured up a terrifying new enemy: Islamic fundamentalism. For Muslims it appeared to open the floodgates to a new wave of hatred and discrimination. Suddenly, it seemed, racists had license to attack them, police to harass them, politicians and journalists to revile their religion.

A fear of Moslems is rational.

We've always had anti-Muslim bigots, but they've always been at the fringes of society.