Amitava Kumar Quotes

You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.

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

There's no religion in this country that is more misunderstood, mis-categorized, and misidentified than Islam.

I thought Christians were walking idiots.

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.

It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

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

Prejudice is an opinion without judgement.

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

The absolute basis of all prejudice is ignorance and generalization.

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

I remember I was in a San Francisco nightclub, and I started talking to some girl, and it was like, 'Hey, what's going on, what's your name?' You know, 'Where are you from?' I go, 'I'm from Iran.' And literally, she just looked at me and walked away.

You know you're a bigot when you can't take out the word 'Muslim' from a sentence you stated and replace it with 'Jew' and still have it be socially acceptable.

Have you ever been called an Islamist? How about a jihadist or a terrorist? Extremist, maybe? Welcome to my world. It's pretty depressing.

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.

Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

It’s the Muslims who are dragging the rest of the world with them, in their genocidal dreams of annihilating goodness, creativity, production, inventiveness, benevolence, charity, medicine, technology, and all of the gifts of the Jews. Our goodness makes them ill.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

It's not hard to look at our own world and draw parallels between 9/11, for example, and how Muslims are viewed or treated by North American culture since then. Just to see the way fear can breed hatred and intolerance for people who aren't the same as us - and that's certainly part of what's at the heart of 'Descender.'

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

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.