The Muslim penalty for apostasy – that’s to say giving up Islam – is death. Richard Dawkins, interview CNN 22nd September 2009
Islam is among the great evils of the world – the chief victims of it are Muslims themselves. Richard Dawkins, with Matt Dillahunty, Vancouver 6th November 2016
Muslims Against Fascism would be great. Christopher Hitchens, lecture Islam and the West
The Wahhabi want to kill the Shia; the Shia really hate the Wahhabi. Get used to it. Anyone who says, don’t let’s offend Muslim opinion doesn’t know what Muslim opinion is. Doesn’t know what happened in Afghanistan. Doesn’t know what’s happening in Iran and Iraq now. There is no such thing as a unified Muslim opinion. There never will be. Christopher Hitchens, in conversation with Stephen Fry
The Muslim world can know no peace until everyone has become Muslim. Christopher Hitchens, interview Divine Impulses
In some ways converting was becoming a second-class citizen in my own country ... I’ve been spat at, insulted – rag-head, sand-nigger. And I have been out with my stepdaughter and been attacked. We’ve had glass bottles thrown at us. Myriam Francois-Cerrah, British Muslim
There seems to be a very small number of people that are brought into this bizarre cult that to be a Muslim you’ve got to follow the kind of societal cultural protocols of sixth-century Arabia. Anwar Akhtar
So what turns an angry young man into a potential murderer? The young of Generation Jihad often share a similar profile: isolated, empty and lacking a purpose in life. Peter Taylor, Generation Jihad
[Aabid] Khan did all this on his computer at home. Yet his father, a former textile worker, remained completely in the dark ... But this ordinary son first became fascinated by radical Islam at the age of just twelve. Over the years it became an obsession. ibid.
Britain faces a clear and present terrorist threat unlike any we’ve faced before. The threat isn’t from Afghanistan, Iraq or Pakistan, it’s here from angry young British Muslims. In Muslim communities across the country there is a small minority who support violent Jihad. ibid.
But there is a risk that the effects of the new terror laws may only serve to harden the views of the extremists. ibid.
Racism against British Asians became endemic in many parts of the country. Most suffered in silence. But in the late ’80s a landmark event changed the way many young Muslims came to regard themselves. The first seeds of Generation Jihad were about to be sown. In 1988 the novelist Salman Rushdie published The Satanic Verses. To Muslims the book was blasphemous and insulted the prophet Muhammad. Years of frustration exploded. ibid.
Ramadan is a month-long Muslim festival with emphasis on prayers, fasting and charity. Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset throughout the month. Eid is the final day of Ramadan and is a day of celebration. Daniel Jewel, Ramadan in London (short), cited Religion Uncovered
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
Muslims should be made to feel welcome in this country because we’ve been here for such a long time. And what we’re seeing now is not a progression in attitudes but a regression. Moazzam Begg, former Guantanamo-Bay victim, interview Channel 4, 2011
We as the Muslims in Europe are beginning to be like the Jews in Europe … We are different ... The rise we see here in the UK of the far right and anti-Muslim rhetoric is extremely frightening. ibid.
How hard is it to be a Muslim in today’s United States? Islam and Life, Edge Media 2012
Muslims are often targeted by systematic state surveillance, hatred and social discrimination. ibid.
British Muslims threatened with death for converting to Christianity. Dispatches: Unholy War, Channel 4 2007
Certain Islamic texts brand converts apostates and demand they be punished. ibid.
An ideology of bigotry and intolerance spreading through Britain with its roots in Saudi Arabia. Dispatches: Undercover Mosque, Channel 4 2007
A Dispatches investigation has uncovered a fundamentalist message spreading from the Saudi Arabian religious establishment through Mosques run by major UK organisations. ibid.
Wahhabism is opposed to the traditional tolerant beliefs of classical Islam. ibid.
This is how British children are being taught to read the Koran in a Muslim faith school in the north of England [teacher assaults pupils]. Dispatches: Lessons in Hate and Violence, undercover Durul Uloom, Birmingham, British Muslim faith school, Channel 4 2011
Dispatches investigates how some faith schools are operating behind closed doors ... Children being taught a hard line, intolerant and deeply antisocial brand of Islam. And pupils as young as six or seven being routinely hit and kicked. ibid.
Four years ago we investigated hard-line teaching in some of Britain’s mosques and filmed undercover in Birmingham in a mosque near the school. ibid.
We found evidence of the same kind of teaching being spread by teachers and graduates elsewhere in Britain. ibid.
‘You know when the Angel of Death comes and he rips their soul out. He will give them such a beating that this forked iron rod will enter his body and it will enter every single joint, and the Angel of Death will twist it and he will twist it and he will twist it. He will feed on the pain on that day.’ ibid.
Britain’s most important mosque promised vigilance against extremism. So we’ve gone back undercover to see what message they are promoting now. Disaptches: Undercover Mosque Return, Channel 4 2012
‘You have to kill him, you understand?’ ibid. lesson on dissenters
‘What they say with their tongues is so vile and disgusting. It’s an abomination.’ ibid.
Regents Park Mosque was set up 60 years ago to represent British Muslims to the government. ibid.
Dispatches has been undercover in a lobby group competing to become the voice of Britain’s three million Muslims … but are they the right people to speak for British Muslims? … It’s called Mend. Dispatches: Who Speaks for British Muslims? Channel 4 2018
It’s controversial: some Muslim and civil rights groups say it alienates the very people it wants to help. ibid.
Tell your children to pray when they are seven; and hit them when they are ten. The Grand Mufti, Saudi broadcast May 2006
Men are in charge of women. ibid.
If she doesn’t wear hijab we hit her. Sheikh al-Jabari
The pinnacle ... of Islam is jihad. Sheikh Feiz
Put in their soft tenders hearts the zeal of jihad and the love of martyrdom. Sheik Feiz
When you teach children that they should be intolerant of other faiths, have no respect for them, you are breeding hostility, antipathy and animosity to others. Is that not hate? Dr Taj Hargey, Muslim Education Centre of Oxford
We are going into full-scale religious apartheid and social segregation and separation. And unless we tackle it now we will reap the whirlwind. Dr Taj Hargey
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
Innocent white paper until black ink is applied. Storyville: Why Democracy? Bloody Cartoons, BBC 2007
On 30th September 2005 twelve cartoons of the prophet Muhammad are published in the Danish national newspaper Jyllands-Posten, a provocation that was just intended to show that you must be able to satirise religious figures in a modern democracy. ibid.
Danish flags and embassies were suddenly set on fire all over the world. ibid.
A Muslim is a person who has dedicated his worship exclusively to God ... Islam means making one’s religion and faith God’s alone. Ibn Arabi