Quotes About Radicalization

Muslims who commit terrorist acts are perverting their religion.

No one is born a terrorist, but the route to become one is surprisingly easy. We need to listen to those who have been there, and those who have made their way back, if we want to stop others from taking their first steps down this same path into darkness.

The poor people of the world tend to be the places that al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups can recruit.

Every lethal terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11 has been carried out by an American citizen or a legal permanent resident, not by recent immigrants or by refugees. So tamping down immigration won't fix the real issue, which is 'homegrown' terrorism.

The root causes of terrorism is terrorists.

With awareness and a social movement against extremism, we can prevent our children from becoming terrorists.

There is only one 'retirement plan' for terrorists.

Homegrown terrorists are a real problem for even the most modern, democratic societies.

When a man sits in our jails for a number of years, and around him friends and family become angry, that is how we create terrorists.

That's what really concerns me about the modern-day terrorists that we face is this global expansion.

Since 9/11 we have somehow come to accept the 'radicalization' narrative, which basically holds that people become terrorists through a series of consecutive, traceable steps laid out for them by large international Islamic organizations. Reality is messier, and also smaller.

Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives.

The reality in Iraq is that we are creating new terrorists and severely damaging the public impression of the United States in the Muslim world.

Today's terrorists do not share a particular ethnic, educational or socioeconomic background.

Now, I am not saying that there is one single type of individual who is a better type of terrorist than another. What I am saying is that the circumstances that push certain individuals over the edge, to become terrorists, are generally very, very similar.

Foreign terrorists are using technology to radicalize Americans at a troubling pace that continues to increase.

I think that a lot of terrorists have been middle class and, more surprisingly, many of them have been people who were not directly affected by the things they're angry about.

You cannot have good terrorists and bad terrorists.

No amount of intelligence or security can stop terrorists who are willing to give up their lives. They can only be stopped if their motivation is eliminated.

ISIL does something al-Qaida would never imagine: they test people by tasking them.

Terrorists follow tried and tested tactics.

Extreme radicalization remains latent in all fascisms, but the circumstances of war, and particularly of victorious wars of conquest, gave it the fullest means of expression.

Al-Qaeda is simply an especially virulent outgrowth of Wahhabism. And ISIS is just an especially virulent outgrowth of al-Qaeda.

the four factors in radicalization: a grievance narrative, whether real or perceived; an identity crisis; charismatic recruiters; and ideological dogma.