Daniel Pipes famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

So, this is my plea to all Western editors and producers: Display the Muhammad cartoon daily, until the Islamists become accustomed to the fact that we turn sacred cows into hamburger.
-- Daniel Pipes

#Editors #Cartoon #Hamburgers
Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.
-- Daniel Pipes

#Giving Up #War #Doe
You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.
-- Daniel Pipes

#Personality #Looks #Economics
Any Westerner can now buy a Koran for a dollar and burn it, while any Muslim with a platform can transform that act into a fighting offense. As passions rise on both sides of the divide, Western provocateurs and Islamist hotheads have found each other, as confrontations occur with increasing frequency.
-- Daniel Pipes

#Passion #Fighting #Dollars
I draw a distinction between traditional Islam and Islamism. Islamism emerged in its modern form in the 1920s and is driven by a belief that Muslims can be strong and rich again if they follow the Islamic law severely and in its entirety. This is a response to the trauma of modern Islam.
-- Daniel Pipes

#Strong #Islamic #Law
In the long term, the United States could greatly benefit Islam by uniquely freeing the religion from government constraints and permitting it to evolve in a positive, modern direction. But that's the long term.
-- Daniel Pipes

#Government #Long #Islam
My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns. If you want to understand Muslims, I argued, you need to understand the role of Islam in their lives. Now that seems obvious.
-- Daniel Pipes

#Careers #Two #Political
The Israelis are very smart about politics and strategy, but there are a few exceptions. One is Lebanon, the other is Gaza, where they were completely inept.
-- Daniel Pipes

#Smart #Lebanon #Strategy
Integrationists are delighted to live in a democratic country where the rule of law prevails, whereas chauvinists wish to import the customs of the Middle East and South Asia.
-- Daniel Pipes

#Country #Law #Wish
Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict.
-- Daniel Pipes

#Constitution #Conflict #States
Again and again, when Westerners are perceived as denigrating Muhammad, the Koran, or Islam, Islamists demonstrate, riot or kill.
-- Daniel Pipes

#Islam #Muhammad #Riot
Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.
-- Daniel Pipes

#Civilization #Comeback #Insult
Itâ€™s a mistake to blame Islam, a religion 14 centuries old, for the evil that should be ascribed to militant Islam, a totalitarian ideology less than a century old. Militant Islam is the problem, but moderate Islam is the solution.
-- Daniel Pipes

#Mistake #Evil #Islam
Western European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and maintaining different standards of hygiene. All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most.
-- Daniel Pipes

#Attitude #Hygiene #Cooking
The Koran is a not 'a product of Muhammad or even of Arabia,' but a collection of earlier Judeo-Christian liturgical materials stitched together to meet the needs of a later age...A few scholars go even further, doubting even the existence of Muhammad.
-- Daniel Pipes

#Christian #Doubt #Together
There is no problem with Islam itself or with the Muslims, but these are difficult times, and the difficulty stems from radical Islam.
-- Daniel Pipes

#Islam #Difficult Times #Problem
Israelis must be encouraged to defeat the Palestinians.
-- Daniel Pipes

#Defeat #Be Encouraged #Palestinian
To me, every fundamentalist Muslim, no matter how peaceable in his own behavior, is part of a murderous movement and is thus, in some fashion, a foot soldier in the war that bin Laden has launched against civilization.
-- Daniel Pipes

#Fashion #War #Civilization
The Palestinians are a miserable people...and they deserve to be.
-- Daniel Pipes

#People #Miserable #Palestinian
All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most.
-- Daniel Pipes

#Attitude #Exotic
Anti-Islamist Muslims - who wish to live modern lives, unencumbered by burqas, fatwas and violent visions of jihad - are on the defensive and atomized. However eloquent, their individual voices cannot compete with the roar of militant Islam's determination, money (much of it from overseas) and violence. As a result, militant Islam, with its West-phobia and goal of world hegemony, dominates Islam in the West and appears to many to be the only kind of Islam.
-- Daniel Pipes

#Determination #Voice #Goal

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