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À propos de certaines actes liés à la communauté musulmane suisse et à l'Initiative populaire suisse du 29 novembre 2009 contre la construction de minarets.
“A partir de son initiation religieuse, vers l’âge de dix ou douze ans, l’enfant musulman, jusque-là quelquefois assez éveillé, devient tout à coup fanatique, plein d’une sotte fierté de posséder ce qu’il croit la vérité absolue, heureux comme d’un privilège de ce qui fait son infériorité. Ce fol orgueil est le vice radical du musulman.”
Conférence prononcée à la Sorbonne en 1883.
Islam
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folie , enfants , vérité , enfant , fait , âge , coupe , vice- , privilège , fierté , coup , radical , infériorité , parti , fanatique , vers , douze , plein , initiateur , possédé , tout , musulman , orgueil , ans , dixième , religieuxErnest Renan 34
écrivain, philologue, philosophe et historien français. 1823–1892Citations similaires
Conférence prononcée à la Sorbonne en 1883.
Islam
Many of the visions and revelations handed down as having been given by him are spurious. The miracles ascribed to him are all fabrications of Moslem zealots. He expressly and repeatedly disclaimed all miracles excepting the Koran ; which, considering its incomparable merit, and the way in which it had come down to him from heaven, he pronounced the greatest of miracles. And here we must indulge a few observations on this famous document. While zealous Moslems and some of the most learned doctors of the faith draw proofs of its divine origin from the inimitable excellence of its style and composition, and the avowed illiteracy of Mahomet, less devout critics have pronounced it a chaos of beauties and defects; without method or arrangement; full of obscurities, incoherencies, repetitions, false versions of scriptural stories, and direct contradictions. The truth is that the Koran as it now exists is not the same Koran delivered by Mahomet to his disciples, but has undergone many corruptions and interpolations.
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Mahomet and his successors, 1849
Combattant pour la liberté et la gloire
Kabbalah does not turn man into a fanatic nor oblige him to give
The Science of Kabbalah (2005)