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The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.
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Iraq was home of the Abbasid Caliphate, a golden age when the Muslim world was at the forefront of math, science and medicine.
Richard Engel
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For a journalist who covers the Muslim world, we have responsibilities to be familiar with that culture and to know how to respond to that.
Lynsey Addario
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Since Sept. 11, many of the wars of our generation are in the Muslim world. So as a woman, I have access to 50 percent of the population that my male colleagues don't.
Lynsey Addario
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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I can bear my own sorrows, but the sorrows arising from the calamities visiting Islam and Muslims have crushed me. I feel each blow delivered to the Muslim world as delivered first to my own heart.
Said Nursi
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To understand the fanatic rejection of women's liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.
Fatema Mernissi
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When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.


Rodney Dangerfield
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I don't know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on.


Betty White
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The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.


Norman Mailer
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The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.
Abu Bakar Bashir
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I'm just overwhelmed with the fact that I had a signature shoe. It's actually 'my shoe.'


Allen Iverson
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Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition.
Iain Sinclair
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I don't write about Google except to insult the company.


Kara Swisher
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Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.


Bernie Taupin
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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.


Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I would not invest in any shoe that is too trendy.


Rachel Roy
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We Egyptians reject any kind of assault or insult against our prophet.


Mohammed Morsi
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I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.


Barack Obama
You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes.
Allan Sherman
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