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“Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the West at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death… Muhammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.”
— Karen Armstrong, "Bill Moyers Interviews Karen Armstrong on NOW", PBS, March 1, 2002.
“How can people bear to live their lives bound by such insanely specific yet manifestly pointless rules?”
— Richard Dawkins, The Intellectual and Moral Courage of Atheism, in reference to examples of legalistic minutiae from the Concise Commandments of Islam handed down by Ayatollah Ozma Sayyed Mohammad Reda Musavi Golpaygani (Originally from 2007; quote is from the slightly revised 2019 version on the website)
“Purer than the system of Zoroaster, more liberal than the law of Moses, the religion of Muhammad might seem less inconsistent with reason than the creed of mystery and superstition which, in the seventh century, disgraced the simplicity of the gospels.”
— Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 5. p. 487.
“In most Muslim countries Islam is still the ultimate criterion of group identity and loyalty. It is Islam which distinguishes between self and other, between insider and outsider, between brother and stranger.”
— Bernard Lewis, The Political Language of Islam, University Of Chicago Press, 2018, p. 4, ISBN 9780226220154.
“The trouble with Islam is deeply rooted in its teachings. Islam is not only a religion. Islam (is) also a political ideology that preaches violence and applies its agenda by force.”
— Wafa Sultan, cited in: N. C. Munson, Noel Carroll. If You Can Keep It, Allen-Ayers Books, 2010, p. 215
“Indeed, I am The God. It is not god but Me, so worship Me and establish prayer for My remembrance. Surely the Hour is coming, I am about to make it manifest -- so that every soul may be rewarded as it strives. So do not let one avert you from it who does not believe in it and follows his desire, for you [then] would perish.”
— Quran 20:14-16

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