Thread by @SasanRebels

A thread full of blasphemy 🧵

Quotes from historical figures and great thinkers who interacted with Islam and Muslims.

Starting with famed German philosopher, Arthur Schopenhauer who critiqued Islam and considered it to be one of the lowest forms of thought.

Persian polymath Muhammad Al Razi or “Rhazes” who Muslims champion as one of their “Islamic” Golden Age scientists:

He expressed criticisms of the religious Muslims he had to live under and like many scholars, had no choice but to identify as a Muslim or pay Jizya.

Byzantine Emperor Manuel II was educated on religious matters and well versed enough to have been an author and monk towards the end of his life.

He had worked with and sometimes against different Muslim leaders of his time and got to know the faith well.

Al-Maʿarrī was another “Islamic” Golden Age philosopher, poet, and writer stuck with carefully producing works under the Islamic Caliphate of his time.

He held controversial irreligious worldviews where he could.

Here’s what he had to say on the matter:

Maimonides was a Jewish polymath whom Muslims try to showcase as living a comfortable life under Islamic Rule despite being a Jew.

While living under their “protection”, Maimonides had this to say regarding the Muslims.

Omar Khayyam, another famed Persian Polymath and Poet who contributed to the “Islamic” Golden Age.

He expressed agnostic views in relation to God in his writings, and had this to say regarding Muslims.

Thomas Aquinas was a medieval Italian philosopher and theologian who was no stranger to Islam.

French writer and philosopher Montesquieu had a curiosity with regards to Islam. After studying and observing it thoroughly, he came to this conclusion.

Voltaire, the wise and influential French writer and intellectual had this to say after studying Islam and the life of Prophet Muhammad.

Sociologist and diplomat, Alexis De Tocqueville, also gave the “deep and meaningful” Quran a crack only to find it to resemble a mentality and culture of its place and time in the deserts of Arabia.

Sir William Muir, a scholar of Islam who also studied and travelled to the east didn't particularly hold Muhammad in high regard despite studying Islam and interacting with the Muslim world.

Winston Churchill had quite a few things to say regarding Islam, and while he relented that some Muslims were good people that focussed on the few positive aspects of the religion, the ideology was still simply parasitical on human development.

Sociologist Al Wardi had a few things to say with regard to Muslim Arab mentalities. This one was interesting.

Nobel Laureate, V.S. Naipaul, lamented on the destruction to culture and history that Muslim expansion has lead to.

Turkish Scholar and former Islamic cleric, Turan Dursun, had quite a bit to say before he was slaughtered for “humiliating the Quran”.

Mathemetician and philosopher, Blaise Pascal, put the comparison between Christianity and Islam promptly.

Iranian dissident and artist, Fereydoun Farrokhzad made a few comments about Muslims and Islamic systems before he was assassinated in Germany.

The wise Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, essayist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.

He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced"

He had this to say regarding Muslims.

Iranian Writer and intellectual Ahmad Kasravi had this to say regarding Islamists:

The Dutch politician and former sociologist was assassinated by a leftist activist for his views on Islam.

Pim Fortuyn, was exceptionally intelligent and a vocal critic of Islam. He foresaw a great disaster for Europe if Islam was left unbridled.

And finally the great British author, Christopher Hitchens. He had no reservations with calling out Islam as ultimately a large violent cult.

He also made a trip to Iran where he commented on how Iranians were a brilliant people and culture held back by a religious authority.

Oh and how could I forget. The famous Italian explorer Marco Polo experienced the cultures of the world of his time.

He had this to add on Muslims.

Doctor Carl Gustav Jung, a genius on collective thinking and one of the greatest figures in the field of psychology and psychotherapy had this comparison to make between Adolf Hitlers rise and the religious fervour with Islam that came with Mohammad.