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Quotes About Islamists

Again and again, when Westerners are perceived as denigrating Muhammad, the Koran, or Islam, Islamists demonstrate, riot or kill.
~ Daniel Pipes
I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
The Nazis believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
For years, Islamists and other extremists have taken advantage of grievances of Muslims in Britain and have successfully identified ways to integrate them under one 'Islamic' banner.
~ Maajid Nawaz
Past experience has shown that the Islamists gain space when civilian authority weakens.
~ Asma Jahangir
Both sides in Syria are bad. One side is a brutal dictator, and the other includes Islamists and terrorists who are dangerous already and who would be brutal in power if given the chance.
~ Newt Gingrich
The time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while they demand our weakness and submission is over.
~ Newt Gingrich
No one is as murderously 'Islamophobic' as Islamists are.
~ Nick Cohen
Según Harris, islamistas, liberales y nacionalistas no tienen ningún conflicto ético: tienen una discrepancia fáctica acerca de cómo alcanzar su objetivo común.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
There was an insurgency under President Hosni Mubarak in the 1990s. Egyptian police and soldiers fought weekly battles with Islamists in the sugarcane fields and thick reeds along the Nile in rural southern villages like Minya, Sohag, Enna and Assiout.
~ Richard Engel
I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
~ Orhan Pamuk
It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason just couldn't manage to integrate into Western society, even though they had good opportunities for advancement.
~ Otto Schily
Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
~ Jack Keane
Neoconservatism had the philosophy that you go in with a supply-led approach to impose democratic values from the top down. Whereas Islamists and far-right organizations, for decades, have been building demand for their ideology on the grassroots.
~ Maajid Nawaz
Islamists are nothing but guided missiles that pride themselves on taking out as many infidels as possible.
~ Greg Gutfeld
Strike read how Chiswell the corrupt capitalist had been murdered by the Russian mafia after failing to pay back interest on some seedy, illegal transaction, while Chiswell the defender of solid English values had been dispatched by vengeful Islamists after his attempts to resist the rise of sharia law.
~ Robert Galbraith
But this experience taught me that our civilization cannot survive if we continue to appease the Islamists.
~ Roger Scruton
The main object of the Islamists' struggle was to impose Islamic law—Sharia. They believe that the five hundred Quranic verses that constitute the basis of Sharia are the immutable commandments of God, offering a road back to the perfected era of the Prophet and his immediate successors—although the legal code actually evolved several centuries after the Prophet's death.
~ Lawrence Wright
At present, the most powerful forces for change in Iran's social landscape are emanating from women as well as from the younger generation of Iranians, the very children who, the Islamists had hoped, would in time rekindle their parents' long-lost political fervor.
~ Lila Azam Zanganeh
Christianity is under attack globally, and particularly in the Middle East and North Africa, where Christian populations are ceasing to exist at astonishing rates due to widespread persecution by Islamists.
~ Mark Meadows
The world has devolved into a much more hardened and lethal place since that devastating September morning when Islamists assassinated nearly 3,000 Americans in the worst terror attack on U.S. soil.
~ Pete Hoekstra
Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.
~ Azar Nafisi
You wonder, how could socialists, true socialists work with Islamists? Because if those Islamists take over, the first thing they're going to do is kill the socialists.
~ Louie Gohmert
On some occasions the only people making accurate claims about the motivations of Islamists and jihadists are themselves dangerous bigots. That's terrifying.
~ Sam Harris