Tony Blair, Napoleon, Sarojini dan Al-Quran

He was reported to have said that Islam was a good and peaceful religion, that he owned two copies of the Qur'an, and that he was quite inspired by it:
“If you read the Koran, it is so clear the concept of love and fellowship as the guiding spirits of humanity”.
Two or three days before the 9/11 attacks, the British newspaper The Mail on Sunday published an article in which Blair said that former US president Bill Clinton's daughter Chelsea had given him a copy of the Qur'an as a gift, that he had begun to read it and that it given him courage in times of difficulty. After the attacks, Blair once again said in an interview on Al-Jazeera television that had read the Qur'an. He also added:
“I read the message of the Koran, insofar as it can be translated. And I read about Islam and I enjoy doing that. And I think that I have learned things about the Koran that I never knew before and I think a lot of Christians would be interested”.
Time magazine described Blair as "long-time student of the Koran" in one article about him.
Napoleon Bonaparte

“I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the prinsiples of the Qur'an wich alone can lead men to happiness.”
- ‘Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte’ by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Sarojoni Naidu

“Sense of justice is one of the most wonderful ideals of Islam, because as I read in the Qur'an I find those dynamic principles of life, not mystic but practical ethics for the daily conduct of life suited to the whole world".
(From a lecture on "The Ideals of Islam" quoted in the book Speeches and Writings of Sarojini Naidu)
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