Miss Iran 2001 Contest

Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. - Niccolo Machiavelli

He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest. - Abu Bakr

The best part of him ran down his mother's legs. - Jackie Gleason

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. - Victor Hugo

I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now. - Malcolm X

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. - H G Wells

There's more to marriage than four bare legs in a bed. - English Proverb

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. - Ambrose Bierce

Without doubt, Malaysia is the great economic star of the Muslim world. - Martin Jacques

People think a Muslim has to have a turban or a big beard. It's stupid. - T-Pain

Tell her I ain't crawlin' home to her with my tail between her legs. - Archie Bunker

If you fall out of that window and break both your legs, don't come running to me. - Groucho Marx

I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and forty-two hundred hits. - Pete Rose

'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim. - Feisal Abdul Rauf

Years ago, I predicted that Iran would take over Iraq. Iran and Iraq used to fight back and forth. - Donald Trump

Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God. - Abu Bakr

When you have an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. - Abraham Lincoln

The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism. - Dennis Prager

The Muslim Prophet Mohammed was a big believer in charity and firmly established helping those in need as a basis of the religion. - Richard Engel

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. - Rumi

Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you are righteous, you will become a righteous Christian or Jew. - Gary Zukav

The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrenders to God.' But the press makes us seem like haters. - Muhammad Ali

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past. - Muhammad Ali Jinnah

There is no sign saying 'good Muslim' or 'bad Muslim.' How many lives will be lost or destroyed trying to determine who is good or who is bad? - Pauline Hanson

Allah's the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner. - Muhammad Ali

I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over. - Will Smith

Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized. - Ulrich Beck

And whosoever fears Allah and keeps his duty to Him, He will make a way for him to get out (from every difficulty). And He will provide him from (sources) he never could imagine. - Unknown

Many cultures believe that on a certain day - Halloween, the Irish Samhain Eve, Mexico's 'Dia de los Muertos' - the veil between this world and the next is especially thin. - Michael Dirda

I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek, who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades, who also happens to be Muslim. - Reza Aslan

Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that. - Terry Eagleton

We who don't want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would happen if Christians, feminists and Enlightenment thinkers were to start proselytizing in the Muslim community. - Ayaan Hirsi Ali

We certainly love the Muslim people. But that is not the faith of this country. And that is not the religion that built this nation. The people of the Christian faith and the Jewish faith are the ones who built America, and it is not Islam. - Franklin Graham

If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it? - Dennis C. Blair

This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world. - Salman Rushdie

To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction. - Randa Abdel-Fattah

I'm a firm believer in God himself, but that's as far as I can go. I'm not any denomination. I'm not Catholic or Presbyterian or Baptist or Methodist or Jewish or Muslim. I'm none of those things. And I'm sure that's just fine with God. - Ray Charles

The Muslim world just doesn't believe that skin color is all that important. Obama may be half-black, but he's still all-Western, according to them. It doesn't matter whether you're black, white or green - if you're not a devotee of Muhammad, you don't matter. - Ben Shapiro

A Muslim fanatic and a Christian fanatic, a Jewish fanatic, a secular fanatic, an atheist fanatic, a communist fanatic - all of them are the same. The thinking that, 'If you don't think like me, that if you are not with me, then you are against me;' this is something to condemn. - Marjane Satrapi