"There are certain verses in the Quran which convey injunctions similar to the following: 'Kill them wherever you find them.' (2:191) Referring to such verses, there are some who attempt to give the impression that Islam is a religion of war and violence. This is total untrue. Such verses relate in a restricted sense, to those who have unilaterally attacked the Muslims. The above verse does not convey the general command of Islam. (pp. 42-43)"

-- Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

#War Quotes #Giving Quotes #Islam Quotes

“One of the oddities about responses that you get to what you write, if you get a fair number of them, is that people have very different ideas of what you said.”

Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.
“Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.”

Source : Orhan Pamuk (2011). “My Name Is Red”, p.72, Faber & Faber
“Do it with passion, or not at all.”
“So let me get this straight. Government can't track illegals and out of date visas, but they know who you called this morning?”
“The average man. The emergence of the concept.”
“Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all.”
“Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?”
“We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100 friends and family, and within a week we had 100,000 people sign the petition.”

Source : "MoveOn as an Instrument of the People". Interview with Terrence McNally, www.alternet.org. June 24, 2004.

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