Quotes About Radicalism

Meanwhile, Quakers used outrageous behavior to draw more attention to their beliefs and provoke a response. A Quaker man walked into a Boston church holding a bottle in each hand, then smashed them to the floor; he shouted, "Thus will the Lord break all to pieces!" A Quaker woman stripped herself naked and paraded through the Newbury church during worship. Another Quaker woman paraded nude through the streets of Boston.

I knew she was a political radical, but when you're nineteen that's sexy.

It cultivated the same hatreds (industrial capitalism, soulless liberalism, cultural degradation) as its academic mentors, and many of the same goals. There was, however, one important difference. Radicals like Eckhart, Rosenberg, and Hitler were willing to contemplate direct action to overturn what they saw as a sick civilization, not just talk about it.

con el creciente radicalismo atizado por la cada vez más arrogante Iglesia católica, las persecuciones contra moros y judíos menudearon en la zona cristiana (hubo un poco en todas partes, pero los navarros se lo curraron con verdadero entusiasmo, asaltando un par de veces la judería de Pamplona y luego arrasando la de Estella, calentados por un cura llamado Oillogoyen, que además de estar como una cabra era un hijo de puta con balcones a la calle).

is foolish to insist, as our leaders habitually do, that the violent acts of radical Islamists can be divorced from the religious ideals that inspire them. Instead we must acknowledge that they are driven by a political ideology, an ideology embedded in Islam itself, in the holy book of the Qur'an as well as the life and teachings of the Prophet Muhammad contained in the hadith. Let me make my point in the simplest possible terms: Islam is not a religion of peace.

Bin Laden's quotes from the Quaran resonated in my brain: "When you meet the unbelievers, strike them in the neck." "If you do not go out and fight, God will punish you severely and put others in your place." "Wherever you find the polytheists, kill them, seize them, besiege them, ambush them." "You who believe, do not take the Jews and Christians as friends; they are allies only to each other. Anyone who takes them as an ally becomes one of them.

This view was born of his long years in Islamist movements, witnessing countless young hotheads mellow with time through long-term engagement with politics. Political scientists call this approach the "inclusion moderation hypothesis," which holds that the more a society democratizes and allows radical groups to participate politically, the more such groups are inclined to soften their rhetoric and behavior.

But in the words of Olfa, who struggled with this question every day, "What is the difference between an extremist and a very upset Muslim?

In 2015, the government redefined its thinking around counterterrorism, declaring that radicalism wasn't fueled by economic marginalization or political grievances, but by the ideology of conservative Islam. Prime Minister David Cameron set out the new approach in a speech that year: Britons who rejected "liberal values" were "providing succor" to violent extremists.

Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.

There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore fighting until surrender was the only alternative.

The real threat comes from terrorism.

The threat from radical Islam is real.

True enough, Osama bin Laden is dead and other al-Qaeda leaders have joined him. But, the assassination of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi is a brutal reminder that radical Islamic terror groups have not disappeared and certainly are not dormant.

Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.

I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.

You cannot fight terrorism with terrorism.

Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.

Fundamentalists of all faiths are the fundamental evil of our time.

I was an avowed professional revolutionary by the time I was 15.

It is not the radicalism of hate that is our biggest danger today; our biggest danger is that we lack the radicalism of love.

Radicalism and old-fogyism, of which we have lately heard from a political master, whose eloquence has been employed in teaching us that progress can only be expected from those whose declared purpose is to stand still.

Radicalism is a luxury of stability because only when we have everything under control can we dare to change things.

RADICAL MUSLIM LEADERS BELIEVE THEY HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO RESTORE THE CALIPHATE AND THUS BRING ABOUT THE END OF WORLD HISTORY