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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

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Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.

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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

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The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and put Muslims on the spotlight.

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Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.

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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.

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There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine.

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I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for very few people.

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Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.

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I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: November 14th, 1944

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