"Islam doesn’t need a reform. It is nobody’s business! All it needs is people to step down and say that no public laws can come from a divine text. I don’t care if you believe like most Christians that snakes can talk or the Muslims believe that horses can fly or Hindus that chariots can roam in the sky. But the day that you start making laws based on those myths then I have a problem. So we are looking at a nation state in which our laws should be governed by the International Charter of Human Rights of 1948. If it runs counter to that law, that country shouldn’t be a member of the UN or be able to trade with anyone. The embargoes placed on Iran should be placed on Saudi Arabia. Iran has not invaded any country. It’s mischief is very trivial compared to the mischief of Pakistan. Iran doesn’t have people in Philippines hijacking planes. Pakistan is there at the Thailand-Malaysia border. It is involved in Myanmar, Bangladesh, Nepal, India, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, Turkey, the US and UK, and yet is a US ally."
React to this quote
More by Tarek Fatah
See allResonant Thoughts
"The world needs new moral impulses which, I'm afraid, won't come from the churches, heavily compromised as they have been throughout the centuries. Perhaps those impulses must come from scientists in …"
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"I want to be able to show up and raise the hell at the precise right moment that might tip the scales in a …"
— Tressie McMillan Cottom"A librarian is not a legal process. There is not librarian in the country — unless she or he is a lawyer — …"
— Judith Krug"The judiciary. The docket of the Supreme Court is becoming congested. At the opening term last year it had …"
— Calvin Coolidge"The queen of virtues is the recognition of one’s own flaws."
— Jack McDevitt"Machiavel's The Prince is to ethics what the work of Spinoza is to faith. Spinoza sapped the fundamentals o…"
— Frederick the Great"Scientists and business leaders who care about social justice should join forces with environmental and rel…"
— Freeman Dyson