Who Is My Enemy? Quotes

“Moreover, there is so much more that needs to be said; but book writing is like picture painting in this regard: it can never be “done,” never “perfected.” One must simply find a good stopping place, and I pray that I have chosen such a place to stop working on this particular project.”
― Lee C. Camp, Who Is My Enemy?: Questions American Christians Must Face about Islam and Themselves

“I thank my many students who have paid attention to the questions we raise together, who have never let me utter glib platitudes without asking how the gospel must be embodied in real life, and how it is embodied in my own life.”
― Lee C. Camp, Who Is My Enemy?: Questions American Christians Must Face about Islam and Themselves

“Book writing, like any good work, demonstrates that our myths about individualism are untrue. All work worth doing is necessarily dependent upon the work, goodwill, support, and kindnesses of others.”
― Lee C. Camp, Who Is My Enemy?: Questions American Christians Must Face about Islam and Themselves

“But neither life, nor human history, turn out to support such a notion.”
― Lee C. Camp, Who Is My Enemy?: Questions American Christians Must Face about Islam and Themselves

“These are hard times. Imperial death-pangs are never pleasant; and it seems we find ourselves in the midst of the geo-political playground when the empire is thrashing about in a vain attempt to maintain its idolatrous pursuit of wealth and power, seeking to be “great again,” seeking to demonize those whose own violence it fears.”
― Lee C. Camp, Who Is My Enemy?: Questions American Christians Must Face about Islam and Themselves