Saladin’s legacy of mercy and compassion is echoed today on the modern battlefield. ibid.
Only 15% of Muslims are Arab. Inside Islam – What a Billion Muslims Really Think, 2009
Does The West Respect The Muslim World – No ... The majority of Americans agreed. ibid.
Militants ... A fraction of 1%. ibid.
A distorted vision of a wider reality. ibid.
There’s very little difference between men’s and women’s agreement that women should be working in any job they are qualified for. ibid.
Terrorism they believe is against their faith. ibid.
America simply not seeing them as equals. ibid.
7% we found said that 9/11 was completely justified. ibid.
They are as likely as the American public to reject attacks targeting civilians. ibid.
The primary victims of terrorists are Muslims. ibid.
1%: They are politically radical ... They really fit the profile of a revolutionary rather than a political zealot. ibid.
Only a small percentage of the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims are radical. The Third Jihad: Radical Islam’s Vision for America, 2008
Over three hundred hostages were killed including 156 children. The terrorists were Muslims and they carried out the attacks in the name of Islam. ibid.
A strategy to infiltrate and dominate America. We all know about terrorism; this is the war you don’t know about. ibid.
There are also those Muslims who hold more radical views. These groups are not Al Qaeda ... When groups like these talk about wanting to create a global Islamic state, and Islam dominating the world, you realise they hold some of the same goals as Al Qaeda. ibid.
In Iran you’ll find the so-called Modesty Police. ibid.
The US government has stopped over 31 attacks against the US since 9/11. ibid.
Many so-called moderate Muslim leaders have been convicted on terror-related charges. ibid.
The Muslims see the extension of Jihad as a war liberating the infidels from their infidelity and a privilege for them. Bat Ye’or, author The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians Under Islam
We want to give children a military education. Mansoor Dadullah, Taliban commander
I prepared all my sons for Jihad for the sake of Allah. Umm Nidal, mother of three terrorists, Egyptian TV February 2005
Islamic civilisation has been one of humanity’s grandest achievements. A worldwide power founded simply on faith. A spiritual revolution that would shape the nations of three continents, and launch an empire. Empires: Islam: Empire of Faith I: The Messenger, PBS 2000
His name was Muhammad ... Muhammad was born in or around 570 A.D. ibid.
Muhammad became a merchant. ibid.
One God meant one people – no more tribal divisions. ibid.
Muhammad’s followers began to grow; they called themselves Muslims. ibid.
There was no easy description of God; the mystery would remain. ibid.
Muhammad also spoke of eternal damnation for the unjust. ibid.
Muslims faced their own tribes ... For three years the Muslim army held out against staggering odds. ibid.
By now the empire was larger than Rome. ibid.
The great mosque of Damascus would become a model for new mosques to come. ibid.
In just a hundred years Muhammad’s vision had transformed the spiritual and political map of the world. ibid.
During the 7th and 8th centuries A.D. a powerful new faith was about to change the world: the faith of Islam. Empires: Islam: Empire of Faith II: The Awakening
The scientific process was born. ibid.
Muslim hospitals had separate wards for patients suffering from different kinds of disease. Even mental illness was treated. ibid.
In Europe anti-Muslim sentiment simmered. By 1095 it reached the boiling point: Pope Urban II spent most of that year travelling through France imploring his feudal lords to unite in a campaign of bloodshed. ibid.
Days of incomprehensible horror ... The Crusaders entered Jerusalem. ibid.
Saladin’s men set fire to the tall grass. And a strong wind carried the flames into the Christian encampment. ibid.
Three months later Saladin entered Jerusalem. ibid.
Remarkably, Saladin levels no retaliation against Christians or their holy places. ibid.
Saladin’s victory did not put an end to Western aspirations in the Near East. ibid.
As the barrier of language dissolved, ideas born in the great Muslim cities began to filter into Europe. Ideas that would ever change Western thought ... And led to the European Renaissance. ibid.
The great cities of the Islamic empire would be brought to ruin ... Devastation that descended upon them not from the west but the east: it’s known as the Mongol Catastrophe ... Terror was the Mongols’ principle tactic. ibid.
In the city of Istanbul the soaring domes and minarets reveal the culmination of a thousand years of empire and faith. Empires: Islam: Empire of Faith III: The Ottomans
It was an age of regal splendour. ibid.
The Ottoman Turks began as a nomadic people. ibid.
They began to organise the new empire. ibid.
By the middle of the 15th century the Ottoman empire spread from present day Turkey, known as Anatolia, deep into the Balkans, with one critical exception: Constantinople. ibid.
The single greatest church in Christendom was now a mosque. ibid.
The Ottomans had reached the gates of the West. ibid.
The Ottoman Empire would reach its apex under Suleiman’s reign. ibid.
The Muslim community has largely been in denial. And they have been this way since after 9/11, after 7/7 and after the recent Toronto arrests because to them it seems that this is some sort of mistake ... They don’t want to really accept that there’s anything wrong with their own children so to speak. The second thing is, that this is being done as some sort of conspiracy. Raheel Raza, writer & activist
When the Crusaders captured Jerusalem the first thing that happened – there was a bloodbath of almighty proportions. They slaughtered everybody, Christian, Jew, Muslim alike. It’s not a pretty event. Dr Tim Wallace-Murphy, co-author Custodians of Truth
When the Christians captured Jerusalem there was a bloodbath. And the horses were knee-deep in blood. They slaughtered everybody – Muslim, Jew, Christian, without mercy. Dr Tim Wallace-Murphy
Jerusalem was stormed in 1099. The entire population of the holy city was put to the sword. Jews and well as Muslims. 70,000 men, women and children perished in a holocaust, which raged for three days. In places men waded in blood up to their ankles and horsemen were splashed by it as they rode through the streets. Desmond Seward, The Monks of War
The Muslims had had a very clear idea of what the peoples of northern Europe were like. They were of the wrong religion, they were boorish, they were unhygienic, they were like lumbering animals. Professor Carole Hillenbrand, author The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives
There is no doubt on both sides of the historiography for this event that the crusaders were exceptionally bloodthirsty. The memory of the brutality of the crusaders is still with Muslims today. Professor Carole Hillenbrand
Saladin failed to remove the Crusaders permanently from Muslim soil. Professor Carole Hillenbrand
He allows the Crusaders to leave. Professor Carole Hillenbrand
He [Saladin] allows those who can ransom themselves to go. And then when those people cannot afford to pay ransom he allows them to go and pays for them by his own estates. Akbar Ahmed, American University
One of the unhappiest spectacles to be seen on our streets today is the image of a woman swathed in shapeless black from head to toe, peering out at the world through a tiny slit. Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion