 Compassion is not a popular virtue. |
| There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too. |
| After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful. |
| It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles. |
| Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion. |
| Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings. |
| At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France. |
| Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death. |
| Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength. |
| The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and put Muslims on the spotlight. |
| Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. |
