"This is what makes people in this country wary of Islam in many of its forms, in one place or another: the centrality and inescapability of religion, the loss of freedom of thought and expression, the harshness of sharia (Islamic law), the patriarchal suppression of women, including their inequality under sharia, the medieval punishments for apostasy, adultery and even theft, the insistence on a cruel form of animal slaughter, the violence and anti-Semitism of many sacred texts, the disinclination to integrate with the host culture and finally one can argue the incompatibility of theocratic Islam with democracy. To find all those things alarming as possibilities is not to be Islamophobic or racist. It is to be reasonable from a western point of view."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Minette Marrin "It's not a phobia – it's rational to fear Islam" at richarddawkins.net, 23 January 2011
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Suppression
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Suppression
7 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Suppression →
Related Quotes
"When intellectual formulations are treated simply by relegating them to the past and permitting the simple passage of…"
"I saw in the Soviet Union many opponents of the regime. I visited a dozen prisons — the political sections among them…"
"Let us put aside resolutely that great fright, tenderly and without malice, daring to be wrong in something important…"
"If we designate as intelligence, quantitatively, the total of mental functioning, it is evident that the suppression …"
"The suppression of natural sexual gratification leads to various kinds of substitute gratifications. Natural aggressi…"
"God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners."
"If you enjoy watching birds, you stand in good company. There are, in the estimate of the National Survey on Recreati…"
"Birds become more and more fascinating, not less, the more you watch them."
"It is a fun exercise among s to try to pinpoint a childhood moment when they deviated from the path of “ordinary” peo…"
"But since it was birders he was dealing with, there wasn’t any harm just letting us in on the honor system. There was…"