Reuven Rivlin Quotes

We are not at war against Islam.

Muslims are not our enemy.

The vast majority of Muslims are moderates working for a better future and seeking a peaceful life.

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.

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.

I believe we don't need to widen the divide between the West and Islam. Rather, we need to build dialogue to encourage tolerance and respect.

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

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

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

Don't make treaties with non-Muslims. They are all evildoers and should not be trusted.

There will be no lasting peace on earth unless we learn not merely to tolerate but even to respect the other faiths as our own.

Arabs and Jews have lived together for many centuries. We are both children of Abraham.

Moslems are not just a bunch of nuts and whackos .... these are people with whom we are simply out of touch.

There is No Hindu, There is No Muslim.

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

Despite the ways in which it has been interpreted by [Islamic] militants and fundamentalists who refuse to recognize its historical and cultural context, there are few scriptures in the great religions of the world that can match the reverence with which the Quran speaks of other religious traditions

The Middle East was not always convulsed by sectarian bloodletting. For a long time it was a place where minorities coexisted with the Muslim Faith, inhabiting this world far more peacefully than they do today.

Germany wants peaceful coexistence of Muslims and members of other religions.

The problem of Islam as a political force is an essential one for our time and for the years to come, and we cannot approach it with a modicum of intelligence if we start out from a position of hatred.

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

Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the world to be defined by the narrow hatred and nihilistic actions of an exceptionally small minority of Muslims?

For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.

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.

Certainly I'm a Christian first and foremost. But I do believe in religious tolerance and finding the commonality between all of us. I think that's how we're all going to come together.

I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.