Blaming the imperialists nowadays is obviously absurd, as is blaming the Americans, who obviously don't have the slightest desire to control anything….

Mustafa Kemal's government was certainly authoritarian, but he had a saying which is profoundly true, I don't remember the exact words, but what he s….

When we talk about the Judeo-Christian or the Judeo-Muslim tradition, it's important to remember that we are speaking of a Jewish component of civili….

You see in Turkey, they had a remarkable success story in building up a democracy. I was in Istanbul for most of the year 1950. That was the year whe….

Islam does give human dignity, certainly. The point I wanted to make is that it is great foolishness to try to impose our notions of democracy. They ….

Muslims naturally saw Christendom as their arch rival. One point that is really important to bear in mind, particularly in addressing an American aud….

During the first formative centuries of its existence, Christianity was separated from and indeed antagonistic to the state, with which it only later….

The Jewish Talmud says that the righteous peoples have an equal place in paradise. The Christians and Muslims agree in rejecting that; they claim tha….

Christians and Muslims share the belief that they are the fortunate recipient of the final God message..

The object of jihad is to bring the whole world under Islamic Law..

Moses led his people through the wilderness and he wasn't permitted to enter the Promised Land. Jesus was crucified. Mohammad founded a state which s….

My position on that has been misrepresented again and again and again in the media. Let me make it clear. There are two wars in Iraq. The first one w….

These internal clashes in Israel nowadays are in a sense a continuation of a clash between Islam and Christendom through their former Jewish minoriti….

You see in the Muslim traditions, it's very clear: maintaining law and consultation, not being arbitrary and oppressive. Consultation. And also in th….

The golden age of equal rights in Spain was a myth, and belief in it was a result, more than a cause, of Jewish sympathy for Islam. The myth was inve….

I think the important point which I've been trying to get across is that Islam, from the very beginning, is strongly, clearly opposed to autocratic d….

Certainly Tunisia was the first in Muslim world. It's been like that for a long time and women play an important part in Tunisia. There are women in ….

I think confronted with the modern world or with the rest of the world, I think people are becoming aware that the Western and Islamic civilizations ….

To accept the story of the Arab destruction of the library of Alexandria, one must explain how it is that so dramatic an event was unmentioned and un….

Muslims are very keenly aware of the history of their community, of the history of that relationship between their community and the rest of the worl….

If you look at the movement of refugees, in Vladimir Lenin's phrase, "the people who voted with their feet," the movement of refugees until comparati….