Homosexuality In Islam Quotes

Democracy is a hegemonic tool of the West and contrary to Islam. Why do you act as though the entire world needs democracy? And when it comes to homosexuality, the issue is clearly dealt with by the Koran. It says it is forbidden and should be punished. ~ Abdul Sattar Abu Risha

There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that's it ~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Homosexuality is neither a sin, nor an anomaly or a disease. It is an evolutionary variation. ~ Abhijit Naskar

It is impossible to call yourself a Christian and defend homosexuality. There is no justification or acceptance of homosexuality ... Homosexuality means the death of society because homosexuals can recruit, but they cannot reproduce. ~ John Hagee

All people hope Islam helps everything in life. Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam will make everything. ~ Ahmed Ali

Islam and Sufism are one. Teaching that to understand Islam one must be a lover, how can one understand Islam when the heart is empty of love. ~ Zarina Bibi

The trouble with Islam is deeply rooted in its teachings. Islam is not only a religion. Islam (is) also a political ideology that preaches violence and applies its agenda by force. ~ Wafa Sultan

If Islam is not making you happy, then something is wrong with your Islam ~ Hamza Yusuf

Politics can be a factor neither in shaping Islam nor directing Muslims' acts and attitudes in Islam's name. ~ Fethullah Gulen

Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality. ~ Jon Stewart

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. ~ Abdurrahman Wahid

Islam is not just a religion. Islam is everything. ~ Cat Stevens

I think that rather than condemning Islam, Islam needs to be studied by those who are sincere. ~ Louis Farrakhan

Islam has always been part of America ~ Barack Obama

There is so much debate about moderate and radical Islam but there is only one Islam. ~ Imran Khan

Homosexuality is good for the environment. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That's not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don't represent peace. They represent evil and war. ~ George W. Bush

A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254) ~ Edward O. Wilson

If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I do not think homosexuality is immoral. ~ Hillary Clinton

Islam is not a race ... Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy. ~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

There is no such thing as one Islam. The Koran is ambiguous and Islam is not a monolithic entity. ~ Walter Kasper

[Mark] Epprecht's larger thesis [...] is that Europeans introduced homophobia, not homosexuality, to Africa. ~ Chantal Zabus

The Sufi Islam practiced in northern India is quite different from the Shi'a Islam practiced in Lebannon, which in turn is different from the Sunni Islam practiced in Pakistan. Even within a single branch of Islam there are customs and practices that vary by region and across time. Thus, the Islam of seventh-century Arabia is different from the Wahhabism that exists today in Saudi Arabia. ~ Deepa Kumar

Bit by bit, I was becoming the almost acceptable face of homosexuality. ~ Quentin Crisp

We cannot hope to win the ideological battle against Islam without criticism of Islam, it is essential that we continue to criticize Islam. ~ Ibn Warraq

We have this American president, Obama, born of an African father, who is saying we will not give you aid if you don't embrace homosexuality. We ask, was he born out of homosexuality? We need continuity in our race, and that comes from the woman, and no to homosexuality. ~ Robert Mugabe

Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of war, and most Muslims don't understand the true nature of Islam. ~ Mosab Hassan Yousef

Our leaders today cannot be honest about Islam with us. They will not even use the term "Islamic terrorism," "radical Islam." ~ Rush Limbaugh

In Islam religion and politics cannot be separated. Unlike other religions, Islam is political by its very nature. ~ Ali Sina

Sharia law is totally intolerant of homosexuality. It's not permissible. ~ Rush Limbaugh

If homosexuality were normal, God would have created Adam and Bruce. ~ Anita Bryant

It's a mistake to blame Islam, a religion 14 centuries old, for the evil that should be ascribed to militant Islam, a totalitarian ideology less than a century old. Militant Islam is the problem, but moderate Islam is the solution. ~ Daniel Pipes

Reformed rabbis are generally political in nature. It's almost like Islam, radicalized Islam in a way, to where it is just radicalized Islam is less about religion than it is about politics. When you look at the Reform Judaism, it is more about politics. ~ Glenn Beck

Homosexuality, to the limited extent it was discussed in our church, was little more than a political football, a quick test of orthodoxy. ~ Matthew Vines

I won't be a party to a conspiracy to mobilize the Arabs against the Persians. Only the forces of colonialism benefit from such a conspiracy. I won't be a party to a conspiracy that splits Islam into two - Shiite Islam and Sunni Islam - mobilizing Sunni Islam against Shiite Islam. ~ Muammar Al-Gaddafi

There is no problem with Islam itself or with the Muslims, but these are difficult times, and the difficulty stems from radical Islam. ~ Daniel Pipes

Muslims may fall short of Islam but Islam will never fall short of Muslims. ~ Habeeb Akande

We have the deepest respect and reverence for Islam and all who share the faith of Islam. ~ Jimmy Carter

Suddenly nothing in the world seemed to Guy more glamorous than homosexuality, as romantic as heady white gardenias nested in polished green leaves. ~ Edmund White

Change the world, give a chance and stay on your principles.. ~ Shahid Islam

Islam in the Arab world coexists with Indonesian, Pakistani and Turkish Islam. There is limited solidarity, even within the Arab world. ~ Walter Kasper

The Nation of Islam provides an antidote in the United States to fundamentalist Islam - which is why individuals from America have to go abroad to find radical teachings. ~ Wole Soyinka

The erotic economy of homosexual relations continues to be traced for our culture in the enduring equation of homosexuality with male homosexuality, of male homosexuality with sodomy, and of sodomy with anal intercourse, and, in particular, with the so-called "passive" or receptive position in anal intercourse. ~ Lee Edelman

I've never made a secret of my homosexuality. ~ Jens Spahn

This is the Homosexuality Is An Abomination Club, right? ~ John Green

To be calm when you've found something going on ~ Yusuf Islam

It is not difficult to destroy Islam. Islam is the pumped up ego of a megalomaniac psychopath. Muhammad was a narcissist madman. Just as a huge balloon can be deflated by a small needle, all it takes to make Islam explode is to ridicule its loony inventor and its brainless followers. ~ Ali Sina

If someone as deluded as I was can be brought out of homosexuality then surely anyone can. ~ Joe Dallas

My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam. ~ Shirin Ebadi

Homosexuality is a mental disorder that can be cured through counselling. ~ Stockwell Day

There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality. ~ Norman Mailer

Islam - a religion horribly misrepresented by terrorists, which is like the IRA saying they represented Irish people. Islam is a BEAUTIFUL religion. would make you cry it's so beautiful ... and gentle. ~ Sinead O'Connor

The term 'sexual orientation' ... is basically a code word for homosexuality. ~ Scott Lively

There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality. ~ Rupert Everett

Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable. ~ Abu Bakar Bashir

Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation ~ Barack Obama

If I was elected God for a day, homosexuality wouldn't be permitted, but nobody's electing me God. ~ Mark Neumann

Islam desists violence practised by terrorists who kill their brethren and commit all despicable actions under the shelter of religion. Islam dissociates itself strictly from these people and their actions. ~ Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan

I did a play called 'Disgraced' in 2012 at Lincoln Center, which ultimately won the Pulitzer Prize. I played the lead character, a Muslim American, who had renounced Islam and became very anti-Islam. ~ Aasif Mandvi

As is often the case, an individual who has been racially oppressed may be blind that the same mechanisms of exclusion and denigration are at work in gender oppression. ~ Chantal Zabus

The heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition. ~ Alfred Kinsey

It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

I see no difference between Islam and Islamism. Islam is defined as submission to the will of Allah, as it is described in the Koran. Islamism is just Islam in its most pure form. ~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam. ~ Barack Obama

Homosexuality is the handiwork of Satan, ~ Johnny Hart

It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam. ~ Zbigniew Brzezinski

History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence. ~ Camille Paglia

There was nothing abnormal about it when homosexuality was the norm. ~ Marcel Proust

When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves. ~ Tony Campolo

I am and always will be a Muslim. My religion is Islam. ~ Malcolm X

Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. ~ Lawrence M. Krauss

Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America ~ Rosie O'Donnell

Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality. ~ Kate Millett

If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the observer that heterosexuality issues from a disappointed homosexuality? ~ Judith Butler

God must be a designer. Everything around us is well-done ~ Islam Atef Aly

The point of Islam is to promote peace. ~ Lupe Fiasco

She is Islam, and I am in Love ... ~ Boonaa Mohammed

The distinction between radical Islam and moderate Muslims is important, as are the differences between Sunnis and Shiites, and between militant and mystical Islam. ~ Walter Kasper

Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism. ~ Feisal Abdul Rauf

I wonder why religion is so strict on homosexuality than massacre. ~ M.F. Moonzajer

There are more scriptural reasons to oppose homophobia than to oppose homosexuality. ~ John B. Cobb

There is a great deal of sin that comes from homosexuals who believe their homosexuality is a sin. ~ Andrew Solomon

If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness. ~ Tori Amos

It's funny that they've called homosexuality a crime ... At this rate, everyone will be a criminal. ~ Kangana Ranaut

So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed ~ Barack Obama

Islam's middle position can be recognized by the fact that Islam has always been attacked from the two opposite directions: from the side of religion, that is too natural, actual, and tuned to the world; and from the side of science that it contains religious and mystical elements. There is only one Islam, but like man, it has both soul and body. ~ Alija Izetbegovic

Most Americans are unaware that Thomas Jefferson was the first American president to go to war against radical Islam. Jefferson was very concerned with Islam's war-like doctrine and its inability to separate mosque and state. ~ Brad Thor

I realised that the idea of enforcing sharia is not consistent with Islam as it's been practised from the beginning. In other words, Islam has always been secular, and I had been totally ignorant of the fact. ~ Maajid Nawaz

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. ~ Abdurrahman Wahid

We shall therefore compare the concept of homosexuality as heresy, prevalent in the days of the witch-hunts, with the concept of homosexuality as mental illness, prevalent today. ~ Thomas Szasz

Homosexuality is the sexual plague of a monogamous society gone promiscuous. These societies that sow the winds of heterosexual freedom ironically reap the whirlwind of homosexual perversion. ~ John W. Miller

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam. ~ George Bernard Shaw

I'm afraid that a lot of things that people believe about Islam are totally different from the religion that most of us recognize. I was really fortunate that I got to know Islam before it became a headline. ~ Cat Stevens

Swaraj will favour Hinduism no more than Islam, nor Islam more than Hinduism. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

We who don't want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would happen if Christians, feminists and Enlightenment thinkers were to start proselytizing in the Muslim community. ~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living. ~ Andrew Lang

Legalizing homosexuality is not the first step on a slippery slope to legalizing everything. ~ Jonathan Haidt

Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change. ~ Maajid Nawaz

I don't have the sort of temperament that submits to Christianity or Islam. ~ Wole Soyinka