20 Obama Quotes About Islam
Contrasted With 20 Obama Quotes About
Christianity:
20 Quotes By Barack Obama About
Islam
#1 “The future must not belong to
those who slander the Prophet of Islam”
#2 “The sweetest sound I know is the
Muslim call to
prayer”
#3 “We will convey our deep
appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the
centuries to shape the world — including in my own country.”
#4 “As a student of history, I also
know civilization’s debt to Islam.”
#5 “Islam has a proud tradition of
tolerance.”
#7 “we will encourage more Americans to
study in Muslim communities”
#8 “These rituals remind us of the
principles that we hold in common, and Islam’s role in advancing justice,
progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings.”
#9 “America and
Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they
overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and
the dignity of all human beings.”
#10 “I made clear that America is
not – and never will be – at war with Islam.”
#11 “Islam is not part of the
problem in combating violent extremism – it is an important part of
promoting peace.”
#12 “So I have known Islam on three
continents before coming to the region where it was first
revealed”
#13 “In ancient times and in our
times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and
education.”
#14 “throughout history, Islam has
demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious
tolerance and racial equality.”
#15 “Ramadan is a
celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial
equality”
#16 “The Holy Koran tells us, ‘O
mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into
nations and tribes so that you may know one another.’”
#17 “I look forward to hosting an
Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan
here at the White House
later this week, and wish you a blessed month.”
#18 “We’ve seen those results in
generations of Muslim immigrants – farmers and factory workers, helping to
lay the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim innovators who helped
build some of our highest skyscrapers and who helped unlock the secrets of
our universe.”
#19 “That experience guides my
conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what
Islam is, not what it isn’t. And I consider it part of my responsibility as
president of the United
States to fight against negative stereotypes of
Islam wherever they appear.”
#20 “I also know that Islam has
always been a part of America’s story.”
20 Quotes By Barack Obama About
Christianity
#1 “Whatever we once were, we are no
longer a Christian nation”
#2 (Preview) “We
do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.”
#3 “Which passages of scripture
should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which
suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or
we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays
from the faith?”
#4 “Even those who claim the Bible’s
inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some
passages – the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ’s divinity – are
central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and
may be modified to accommodate modern life.”
#5 “The American people intuitively
understand this, which is why the majority of Catholics practice birth
control and some of those opposed to gay marriage nevertheless are opposed
to a Constitutional amendment to ban it. Religious leadership need not
accept such wisdom in counseling their flocks, but they should recognize
this wisdom in their politics.”
#6 From Obama’s book, The
Audacity of Hope: “I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers equivalent rights on such basic matters
as hospital visitation or health insurance
coverage simply because the people they love are of the same sex—nor am I
willing to accept a reading of the Bible that considers an obscure line in
Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the
Mount.”
#7 Obama’s response when asked what
his definition of sin is: “Being out of alignment with my
values.”
#8 “If all it took was someone
proclaiming I believe Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins, and that
was all there was to it, people wouldn’t have to keep coming to church,
would they.”
#9 “This is something that I’m sure
I’d have serious debates with my fellow Christians
about. I think that the difficult thing about any religion, including
Christianity, is that at some level there is a call to evangelize and
proselytize. There’s the belief, certainly in some quarters, that people
haven’t embraced Jesus Christ as their personal savior that they’re going to
hell.”
#10 “I find it hard to believe that
my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can’t imagine
that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts
with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. That’s just
not part of my religious makeup.”
#11 “I don’t presume to have
knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether
the reward is in the here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself
to my faith and my values is a good thing.”
#12 “I’ve said this before, and I
know this raises questions in the minds of some evangelicals. I do not
believe that my mother, who never formally embraced Christianity as far as I
know … I do not believe she went to hell.”
#13 “Those opposed to abortion cannot
simply invoke God’s will–they have to explain why abortion violates some
principle that is accessible to people of all faiths.”
#14 On his support for civil unions
for gay couples: “If people find that controversial then I would just refer
them to the Sermon on the Mount.”
#15 “You got into these small towns
in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have
been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell
through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush
Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow
these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not
surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion
or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or
anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
#16 “In our household, the Bible,
the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek
and Norse and African mythology”
#17 “On Easter or Christmas Day,
my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist
temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient
Hawaiian burial sites.”
#18 “we have Jews, Muslims, Hindus,
atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that we
have to revere and respect as much as our own”
#19 “All of us have a responsibility
to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and Palestinians can see
their children grow up without fear; when the Holy Land of the three great
faiths is the place of peace that God intended it to be; when Jerusalem is a
secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for
all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story
of Isra — (applause) — as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and
Mohammed, peace be upon them, joined in prayer.
(Applause.)”
#20 “I believe that there are many
paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power,
a belief that we are connected as a people.”
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