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Quotes About Extremism

Libya became a rat's nest of extremism after NATO helped depose dictator Moammar Gadhafi, and it now exports weapons, jihadists, and ideology to Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
~ Pete Hoekstra
Certainly, the JCPOA was not a perfect agreement. It did not deal with the threat from Iranian missiles, or their support for violent extremism. And it contains a 'sunset clause,' meaning it expires after a decade. But it was accomplishing the one goal it set out to achieve: stopping Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
~ Joe Sestak
The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.
~ Narendra Modi
Anyone can go to 8chan, a website entirely for Gamergaters. You can read what they post about me and other women. It's not just casual sexism, it's angry, violent sexism.
~ Brianna Wu
Chance explorations on search engines do not 'accidentally' lead users to extremist websites.
~ Maajid Nawaz
I want to make sure those who view despicable terrorist content online, including jihadi websites, far-right propaganda, and bomb-making instructions, face the full force of the law.
~ Amber Rudd
There are networks now and websites that make Fox News blush, that, you know, people at Fox News say to me, well, those are radicals; those are extremists. And President Trump - if he does not win the election, he may well end up with a show on one of those networks.
~ Brian Stelter
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.
~ James Comey
The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.
~ John Avlon
In 1988, when democracy was restored, the military establishment was still very powerful. The extremist groups were still there. And when the aid and assistance to Pakistan was cut, we had to adopt harsh economic policies. So in a way, it showed that democracy doesn't pay, and the military was able to reassert itself.
~ Benazir Bhutto
The politically correct illiberal left far too often side with the extremists.
~ Munira Mirza
You see in times of crisis that extremist forces, populist forces, have a better ground to oversimplify things and to manipulate feelings. Feelings of fear.
~ Jose Manuel Barroso
Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.
~ Viktor Orban
There have been many examples in the world of people doing crazy things because they want to keep war going.
~ Juan Manuel Santos
Al-Qaida is a cult of martyrdom.
~ Benjamin Wittes
The people and the mindset that killed 3,000 of our fellow citizens on September 11 2001, would have killed not 3,000, but 300,000 if they could have or 3 million or 30 million. We need to do everything we can within our value systems and legal structures to make sure that doesn't happen.
~ Tim Pawlenty
The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.
~ Maajid Nawaz
Indeed, by refusing to tackle Assad's brutality, we may actively alienate more of the Sunni population, driving them towards ISIS.
~ Jo Cox
The British and French governments have taken a strong stance against 'extremist content' online when addressing their approach to tackling extremism.
~ Maajid Nawaz
The Islamic State is using medieval tactics.
~ Tom Cotton
There is no doubt that counterterrorism takes time because it is not action against a regular army.
~ Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.
~ Salman Rushdie
I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban.
~ Malala Yousafzai
People will politicize religion; we see it in every faith, in every religion. We see it with Pat Robertson, in my opinion, and we see it with the Taliban.
~ Keith Ellison