El Fadl Quotes

#1. Liberty and choice are the essential components that constitute human dignity.

Khaled Abou El Fadl

#2. I can pick your lock anytime I want a taste of your pussy.

Ainsley Booth

#3. The critical question is how a religious tradition is interpreted. Is it interpreted in ways that are pro-human rights or in ways that are a throwback to the Dark Ages?

Khaled Abou El Fadl

#4. I've written a book entitled Islam: the Challenges of Democracy, because it is a challenge. It requires careful interpretation of the Islamic tradition and Islamic theology, and there's a lot in there that would support democratic ideals.

Khaled Abou El Fadl

#5. There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

Thomas Carlyle

#6. Islamic tradition is full of examples of supporting the autonomy of women and the empowerment of women. Very few people know that in Islamic history there have been well over two thousand women jurists.

Khaled Abou El Fadl

#7. Once when I visited her, she scuffed around the house in pink pile-lined slippers you'd wear only while waiting for the police to discover you many days dead.

Melissa Bank

#8. Wahhabism goes and takes elements from the Islamic tradition that are most oppressive of women, and highlights and enlarges them and makes them the whole of Islam. In my view, that's a clear corruption of the Islamic tradition.

Khaled Abou El Fadl

#9. 'The system made me do it' is the perfect cop-out for today's managers.

Pankaj Ghemawat

#10. The Apostle Paul wrote, The things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal (2 Corinthians 4:18). The physical dies away, but the spiritual is forever.

David Berg

#11. The American obliviousness towards the suffering of Palestinians refugees plays a major part in radicalizing people. And we are fanning the flames of puritanism.

Khaled Abou El Fadl

#12. If human beings pretend to be God, then forget about democracy. If they understand that no human being can represent God, then sure.

Khaled Abou El Fadl