Islamic Religion Quotes

I got my initiation into the Middle East in 1969 when I went there to teach at the American University in Cairo for two years.

My passion was reading newspapers - and I became curious, in particular, about Islam and the Arab world.

Actually we are Muslims because we believe in the religion of Islam.

I'd love to go and visit the Mosque in Mecca again, just for the sheer beauty of it, not for God - much the way a non-Catholic might go to Vatican City because of the beauty of the buildings and the artifacts.

I've been to North Africa many times.

The Middle East has been a part of my life since I was a young man, when I went to teach in Cairo.

If you know anything about Islamic civilization, or about the contemporary Middle East, about the sociology and the anthropology of the people who live there, and their recent history, and their religion, and their motivation and everything, then you realize that changing Iraq into a democracy is not going to happen. It's just not going to happen.

At this point I hadn't yet gotten deep into the historic condition that negroes in this country are confronted with, but at that point in my prison studies I, I read, I studied Islam as a religion more so than as I later come to know it in its connection with the plight or problem of Negroes in this country.