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Abdurrahman Wahid Quotes
Page 1 of 1Abdurrahman Wahid
August 4, 1940 -
Nationality: Indonesian
Category: Statesman
|  I do not like violence. | | All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion. | | Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam. | | I don't talk in ifs. | | I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi. | | If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam. | | I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it. |
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