“Islam is not the religion of peace, but the religion "rest in peace."”
Waleed Al-Husseini (1989) Palestinian essayist and writer
"Presidential Candidates Proposing to Ban Muslim Immigration to the United States" http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/muhammad-ali-hits-trump-misguided-murderers-sabotaging-islam-n477351 (9 December 2015). <br class="br">Context: I am a Muslim and there is nothing Islamic about killing innocent people in Paris, San Bernardino, or anywhere else in the world... True Muslims know that the ruthless violence of so called Islamic Jihadists goes against the very tenets of our religion... We as Muslims have to stand up to those who use Islam to advance their own personal agenda... They have alienated many from learning about Islam. True Muslims know or should know that it goes against our religion to try and force Islam on anybody.
“Islam is not the religion of peace, but the religion "rest in peace."”
Waleed Al-Husseini (1989) Palestinian essayist and writer
“Islam was never a religion of peace. Islam is the religion of fighting.”
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (1971–2019) leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
As quoted in "Islamic State releases 'al-Baghdadi message'", BBC (14 May 2015)
2014, 2015
Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32744070
Fathi Yakan (1933–2009) Lebanese Islamic cleric-politician
Top Lebanese Sunni Cleric Fathi Yakan: Bin Laden a Man After My Own Heart; I Am Not Sad Because of 9/11 and I Have Never Condemned this Attack, MEMRI, March 2007 http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1408.htm,
Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 3, hadith number 470
Sunni Hadith
Jussi Halla-aho (1971) Finnish Slavic linguist, blogger and a politician
Jussi Halla-aho (2008), published in the blog Scripta Muutama täky Illmanin Mikalle http://www.halla-aho.com/scripta/muutama_taky_illmanin_mikalle.html, June 6, 2008 <br class="br">2005-09
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and the first President of Turkey
As quoted in Kemalizm, Laiklik ve Demokrasi [Kemalism, Laicism and Democracy] (1994) by Ahmet Taner Kışlalı
Context: Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive. Yet it is also very important to note that religion is a link between Allah and the individual believer. The brokerage of the pious cannot be permitted. Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We are against such a situation and will not allow it. Those who use religion in such a manner have fooled our people; it is against just such people that we have fought and will continue to fight. Know that whatever conforms to reason, logic, and the advantages and needs of our people conforms equally to Islam. If our religion did not conform to reason and logic, it would not be the perfect religion, the final religion.
Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 2, hadith number 222
Sunni Hadith
Sayyid Qutb (1906–1966) Egyptian author, educator, Islamic theorist, poet, and politician
[Fiqh al-Da’wah, Fiqh al-Da’wah, IslamQA, http://web.archive.org/web/20061017053855/http://www.islamqa.com/index.php?ref=43087&ln=eng, 217–222, 2007-11-22, 2006-10-17]
Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
He said, 'No.'"
Muwatta of Malik ibn Anas, chapter 61, hadith number 19
Sunni Hadith