Quotes by Ibn Warraq

Ibn Warraq

I always have tendency to form very strong local attachments, so I was very keen to find out about the school I was going to, its history, and the countryside. I was acquiring a kind of English character if you like, Englishness about things and my attitudes.

Attitude

School

Strong

I have always felt that many Christians, deeply sincere Christians, support the idea of separation of State and Church and the secularist in that sense as well. They believe that religion should be very much a private affair and should not be given special treatment. The State should not fund churches for example.

Believe

Christian

Ideas

I maintain that Western popular culture at its best is worthy of respect and should be cherished as much as the operas of Wagner.

Culture

Opera

Should

I think forgiveness plays a very important part in Western society and it comes from the Judeo Christian heritage.

Christian

Play

Thinking

I wish more people would belabor the obvious, and more often.

Obvious

People

Wish

In Saudi Arabia, among other countries, Muslims are not free to convert to Christianity, and Christians are not free to practice their faith. The Koran is not a rights-respecting document.

Christian

Country

Rights

In the West we are free to think what we want, to read what we want, to practice our religion, to live as we choose. Liberty is codified in human rights, a magnificent Western creation but also, I believe, a universal good.

Believe

Rights

Thinking

It is the West that has liberated women, racial minorities, religious minorities, and gays and lesbians, recognizing and defending their rights. The notions of freedom and human rights were present at the dawn of Western civilization, as ideals at least, but have gradually come to fruition through supreme acts of self-criticism.

Civilization

Gay

Religious

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization.

Civilization

Liberty

Pursuit Of Happiness

Monotheism is in its turn doomed to subtract one more God and become atheism

Atheism

Monotheism

Turns

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Breathing

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Country

Criticism

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Development

Dream

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Ethnicity

Feet

Gay

Growing Up

Home

Ideas

Islam

Islamic

Law

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Library

Looks

Marketing

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Men

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Quotes by Ibn Warraq

Ibn Warraq

I always have tendency to form very strong local attachments, so I was very keen to find out about the school I was going to, its history, and the countryside. I was acquiring a kind of English character if you like, Englishness about things and my attitudes.

I maintain that Western popular culture at its best is worthy of respect and should be cherished as much as the operas of Wagner.

I think forgiveness plays a very important part in Western society and it comes from the Judeo Christian heritage.

I wish more people would belabor the obvious, and more often.

In Saudi Arabia, among other countries, Muslims are not free to convert to Christianity, and Christians are not free to practice their faith. The Koran is not a rights-respecting document.

In the West we are free to think what we want, to read what we want, to practice our religion, to live as we choose. Liberty is codified in human rights, a magnificent Western creation but also, I believe, a universal good.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization.

Monotheism is in its turn doomed to subtract one more God and become atheism

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