Quotes About Extremism

What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.

We cannot be complacent about the determination of radical Islamic extremists to destroy our freedoms.

Past experience has shown that the Islamists gain space when civilian authority weakens.

Al Qaeda is closely aligned with the Chechens.

I want people to be confronted by the brutality of the Antifa movement.

The survival of ISIS's ideology is success enough for them. We must spare no effort in denying ISIS this success.

Moderation is regarded by the Republican base with suspicion.

While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, our critics seem suspicious of any assertion of United States power or influence against any government or group that claims to be on the left.

Britain First, the English Defence League, the British National Party, and the National Front are all guilty of using British symbols and institutions (notably support for the Armed Forces) to attempt to further their own deeply objectionable beliefs.

Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.

Our enemy in Syria is Daesh: it's not about containing but destroying this organisation.

The presence of jihadis in Syria should be no surprise.

Hamas does not represent the national aspirations of the Palestinians. It represents extreme Islamic ideas, which they share with Iran, Hezbollah, and Syria.

There's a conspiracy going on online every day between these top U.K. individuals within ISIS leadership out of Syria.

It's one thing for someone to travel over to Syria and Iraq and come back. But, boy, it's a lot easier if they activate someone who's already here.

The acronym ISIS stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. But increasingly, we see that it's not limited there. We see it in Egypt. We see it in Libya. We see it in Afghanistan.

ISIS is even at war with its most natural ally, al Qaeda in Syria.

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

no religion is inherently violent or peaceful; people are violent or peaceful.

The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real, decent religion. Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' So did Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have implacable faith that they are right and the other is evil. Each believes that when he dies he is going to heaven. Each believes that if he could kill the other, his path to paradise in the next world would be even swifter. The delusional "next world" is welcome to both of them. This world would be a much better place without either of them.

There is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and other people, and these extreme, radical fundamentalists who have shown a total lack of tolerance for people with different views, starting with people who they don't think are good Muslims, and going on to include Christians and Jews.

Protocols of the Elders of Zion, supposedly a transcription of a secret Jewish council's plans to subvert legitimate governments and take over the world, were sold internationally in the 1920s and 1930s; Henry Ford took the forgery as literally as Adolf Hitler did.

History's shown that in this world, when you take your ideals too far, all you ever create is Hell.