Quotes About Radicalization

Syria is attracting a lot more Westerners than the Iraq War ever did because it's the perfect Sunni jihad.

They go to Paris to learn how to make bombs and they come back having learned only how to write poetry, which they think is more explosive.

In the United States, the sacrosanct nature of dreams, never to be critically assessed, may be the most powerful impediment to political radicalization and collective action.

Extremists tend to grow more extreme, not less, as problems get closer to solutions

Britain faces an even worse crisis, with more of its Muslim young men volunteering to fight for ISIS than volunteering to serve in their own country's armed forces.

Social media is not only the most important tool for inciting terrorists, it can also be an effective weapon against them.

I believe we're stronger when we speak loudly and unapologetically for human rights; when we stand with our allies against common threats like terrorism, radicalization, and poverty; and when we unite to prevent the world's most dangerous regimes from acquiring the world's deadliest weapons.

Chance explorations on search engines do not 'accidentally' lead users to extremist websites.

The Internet offers the ability for people to consume poison and radicalize entirely in private, either through a device they're holding in their hands or inside their house.

Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.

Al-Qaida is a cult of martyrdom.

In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization.

Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and maim on religious grounds.

Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

There are millions of young children being educated to a very narrow-minded view of religion. And it's out of that education of large numbers of young people that you then get this extremism.

When a solidly conservative party is taken over by its most extreme wing in a campaign that includes attacks that are no less vicious when aimed at that conservative party's mainstream pillars than they are at the opposition party, we think "radicalization" is an objectively appropriate term.

Antagonism breeds extremism.

once becoming a mother, a woman might be radicalized in her feminism. She had a greater stake in saving the earth from male politicians. She had a greater stake in education and health, in the environment, in all social policy. She finally understood the way our society makes children and mothers the lowers of priorities. ...... I was hardly mellowed by the maternal transformation. If anything, my feminism grew more fierce.

The sons of torture-victims make good terrorists.

We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them.

Nobody knows what self-radicalized means, and that's one of the weird things about the way that we talk about terrorism. We talk about radicalization as though it were a thing, as though you could sort of track it and identify it, and that's not the case.

Extreme Islam is not just an Iraqi or Syrian problem. It is a problem for the Western and industrialized world, too.

If anything, prolonged overseas military presence breeds radicalization.

Let's have a conversation about how we destroy ISIS.