extremism quotes

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

All movements go too far.

The Qataris have cut off support for the most extreme elements of terrorist organizations.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be… The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.

There is every likelihood that the Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of bin Laden, could have been split and undermined after 9/11.

Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions.

We don’t have to let extremists define us.

We should pass the U.N.’s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don’t. We need to delink terrorism from religion – to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.

I’m opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you’ve got all the answers, then don’t call what you do ‚faith.‘

Basically, Islamic State is a combined al Qaeda and Lebanese Hezbollah on steroids, destabilizing the region, dissolving borders/changing the political geography in the Mid-east, and hardening political positions that make Mid-east peace-building more remote by the day.

There is only one ‚retirement plan‘ for terrorists.

No violent extreme endures.

I consider ISIS nothing more than an excuse for Iran to continue its mischief.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.