35 Quotes by Ibn Warraq

We cannot hope to win the ideological battle against Islam without criticism of Islam, it is essential that we continue to criticize Islam.

While many Islamic countries pay lip service to the idea of freedom of religion, they don’t put up with conversion from Islam to another religion.

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.

The West has given us the liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction.

Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way.

The rich countries are rich because of their practices at home, and because of their readiness to adopt and adapt new things, such as Chinese inventions or New World crops.

Slavery had very little to do with the economic success of the West. Just look at the facts and figures and how much slavery actually contributed to development.

By working and living in New York, you are breathing Western civilization, continuously reminded of its benefits and its values.

All religions are sick men’s dreams, false – demonstrably false – and pernicious.