Quotes About Extremism

I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.

Al Qaeda has dominated the battlefield of the soul among the disaffected, disenfranchised, and dissatisfied. It promises action instead of discussion.

I'm not even religious, but I get fanaticism. I get the appeal of it.

The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

I don't say for a moment that the far right is no longer a problem. We have seen the neo-Nazi nutters in Charlottesville in America.

I'm very afraid of being linked with the wrong, rightist, Fascist groups.

I want the fascist Qur'an banned.

By cutting off Hezbollah's lifelines to international financing, we can break its cycle of violence around the world.

The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why al Qaeda was there in the first place.

Bombs are not going to fix ISIS.

I'd say putting another Clinton in the White House is only going to make that right-wing extremism greater. We will see more of these neoliberal policies, like Wall Street deregulation, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which Hillary has always supported. She's changed her tune a little bit, but Hillary has walked the walk.

Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.

Always, with any sort of politics, which is why we haven't got any, you get extremists, and once you get extremists, you get people doing great things and terrible things... for every following of some sort, you get followers who distort things.

Why are fanatics so terrified of girls' education? Because there's no force more powerful to transform a society. The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

You can't get much more egregiously wrong and wicked than the views expressed by al-Muhajiroun.

Nazism is still widespread in the West.

Well, I think the worst part about tribalism is its tendency to fundamentalize, and if I can fight fundamentalism in any of its forms I'm happy.

Political Islam's parallel societies and radicalizing tendencies have no place in our country.

Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions.

Britain First is an extremist organisation which seeks to divide communities through their use of hateful narratives which spread lies and stoke tensions.

We can put a stake through the heart of Islamic State as an army. We can put a stake through the heart of its leaders. You can take away its territory. But you can't put a stake through the heart of the ideas, of the ideology, that sadly, tragically, still has some attraction for some small numbers in the Islamic faith.

We must take all that territory away from ISIS.

I don't doubt that the war on terror, at its core, is a war on ideology.

I support this war on terror and the war on radical Islam.