Quotes About Extremism

Should I act violently in defense of my religion, absolutely.

As long as there are those who are willing to shed blood and take innocent life in the name of religion, the name of God, the world will never know a true and lasting peace.

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

Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion, too.

You're always going to have extremists in every religion.

There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.

It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts.

No one is as murderously 'Islamophobic' as Islamists are.

Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches.

I think that the religious and the military right wings are just two sides of the same coin if somebody uses God and religion and somebody uses country and security.

I don't believe a religion affords any protection if they are connected to any kind of terror.

ISIS goes after any group that deviates from its extreme ideology, dissident Muslims, for example, or the Yazidis who practice an ancient religion distinct from both Islam and Christianity.

No-one wants to see violence of any kind on our streets, certainly not any violence that's justified by extreme nationalist ideas or that targets people because of their religion.

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.

I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.

People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.

In my opinion, fundamentalist Christians are just as bad as fundamentalist Islam and, at the very core, neither religion is like that.

It's important to understand that violent Islam is only one face of violent religion.

People call you extremist when you are spreading Islam but always remember that you are not..they are extremist because they are endangering there own life with there own hands.

Religion poisons everything

The most dangerous aspect of religion is its tendency to glorify the absurd and justify the abhorrent.

It's rather simple. God deliver us from people who know so little that they will kill for what little they know.

Terrorism is the weapon of a marginal and weak segment of humanity. How did it come to dominate global politics?

This is the God of the Crusaders and jihadists, of the inquisitors, misogynists, and homophobes. This is the God we talk about when we stand around a burning pyre, hurling stones and abuses at the heretics being grilled there.