The origins of the modern West are often seen in the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, but the roots of the Enlightenment can be found in habits of mind cultivated in Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem, and the institutions that grew from them.
Human rights transcend local or ethnocentric values, conferring equal dignity and value on all humanity regardless of sex, ethnicity, sexual preferen… - Ibn Warraq
Human rights transcend local or ethnocentric values, conferring equal dignity and value on all humanity regardless of sex, ethnicity, sexual preferen…
- Ibn Warraq
Muslims have not ever been told to examine their faith in a critical way, so the shock is going to be even greater for them, as it is for any child w… - Ibn Warraq
Muslims have not ever been told to examine their faith in a critical way, so the shock is going to be even greater for them, as it is for any child w…
The idea that the West was economically successful because of slavery, it's just nonsense. - Ibn Warraq
The idea that the West was economically successful because of slavery, it's just nonsense.
All religions are sick men's dreams, false - demonstrably false - and pernicious. - Ibn Warraq
All religions are sick men's dreams, false - demonstrably false - and pernicious.
We cannot hope to win the ideological battle against Islam without criticism of Islam, it is essential that we continue to criticize Islam. - Ibn Warraq
We cannot hope to win the ideological battle against Islam without criticism of Islam, it is essential that we continue to criticize Islam.
A culture that gave the world the spiritual creations of the Classical Music of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and Schubert, the paintings of Michelangelo… - Ibn Warraq
A culture that gave the world the spiritual creations of the Classical Music of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and Schubert, the paintings of Michelangelo…
Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way. - Ibn Warraq
Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way.
We are free, in the West, to choose; we have real choice to pursue our own desires; we are free to set the goals and contents of our own lives; the W… - Ibn Warraq
We are free, in the West, to choose; we have real choice to pursue our own desires; we are free to set the goals and contents of our own lives; the W…
While many Islamic countries pay lip service to the idea of freedom of religion, they don't put up with conversion from Islam to another religion. - Ibn Warraq
While many Islamic countries pay lip service to the idea of freedom of religion, they don't put up with conversion from Islam to another religion.
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