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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

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LOUIS FARRAKHAN Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our...
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ABU BAKAR BASHIR The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.
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SHIRIN EBADI Saying of the Prophet
Accusations
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IDRIES SHAH Saying of the Prophet
Obligation to Learn
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IDRIES SHAH Saying of the Prophet
Helping others
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ABDOLKARIM SOROUSH I'm a person of faith, and the language that I use to define my faith, the symbols and metaphors...
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Tasks
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IDRIES SHAH Saying of the Prophet.
Lies, promises, trust
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SAM HARRIS Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
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AHMAD WAHIB I made the film to bring the story of Islam, the story of 700 million of people, to the West.
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