Miss Iran 2001 Contest

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

Men are creatures with two legs and eight hands. - Jayne Mansfield

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

Don't feel pity for the rider's hanging legs. - Greek Proverb

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now. - Salman Rushdie

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

The moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow. - Henry David Thoreau

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

I don't teach my children what is Hindu and what is Muslim. - Shah Rukh Khan

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

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

They invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs. - Martin Caidin

My legs are so sore from the gym that I almost couldn't walk to the donut shop. - Bill Murray

There goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class. - David Coleman

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

Iran is not getting rid of any of its nuclear plants. They're not getting rid of anything. - 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

It was one of the most ancient terrors, the one that meant that no sooner had mankind learned to walk on two legs than it dropped to its knees. - Terry Pratchett

No matter that we may mount on stilts, we still must walk on our own legs. And on the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom. - Michel de Montaigne

Do not empower your negative thoughts by giving them "legs" so they can run around your mind, creating worries, frustrations, and anxiety in your life. - Rodolfo Costa

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

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

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

There is no more effective way to radicalize American Muslim youth than for political leaders to make public displays of prejudice against all Muslims. Suspicion will undermine their sense of identification with America and alienate some from both the culture and from politics. - Miroslav Volf

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