Quotes About Extremism

Fundamentalists of all faiths are the fundamental evil of our time.

We've been dealing with this kind of terrorism since the fifties, since the Muslim Brotherhood came to Syria at that time.

...when men ignite in their hearts a religious fury, they inflict at the same time a blindness on their eyes.

Consisten en sostener que, pese a su odio recíproco, hay entre el comunismo y el nazismo un denominador común: el colectivismo.

El «espíritu tribal», fuente del nacionalismo, ha sido el causante, con el fanatismo religioso, de las mayores matanzas en la historia de la humanidad.

I believe that am entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few extremists.

I was too much of an extremist to be able to live under the eye of God and at the same time say both yes and no to life

Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.

I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks.

Godwin's law states that the longer any online debate goes on, the likelier it is that someone will play the Nazi card. It's the rhetorical equivalent of going nuclear and stupid at the same time.

Who kills people in the world today by severing their heads from their bodies?

Therefore, moving to a nation that today has a resident Muslim population will most likely result in living in a fully Muslim nation, soon after the fall of the Daughter of Babylon, along with Jihadists who believe that Christians and Jews must "revert" to Islam, or be decapitated. Not a good choice.

Jihadists are thoroughly committed, with a burning desire, to make Allah the god and Sharia Law the law, of every nation on the globe. That

Jihadists are thoroughly committed, with a burning desire, to make Allah the god and Sharia Law the law, of every nation on the globe.

Either there will be a coup d'état, or we will have Muslim extremism.

This is the story everywhere in the wider Muslim world. Students go to the Middle East on generous scholarships and study Salafi or Wahhabi doctrine, and they learn there that jabbering on at top volume about martyrs and violent jihad is a highly effective way of whipping up religious fervor. In the home country, hardline religious schools spring up, like the one I visited in Thailand, and spread their obsession with ritual, code, dress, and other apparent trivia.

Fundamentalism only ever deepens public hypocrisy, not public morality.

Wahhabis fight against everything that has enriched Islamic culture and Islamic tradition throughout history."33

there are as many nuts on the left as there are on the right, and in the long run, the lefties are probably more dangerous.

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.

If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse.

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is the monster.

A man who loves his god unduly forces other men to love his god, eager to exterminate them if they refuse.