Quotes About Extremism

This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.

He spent five years between 2007 and 2012 in prison, in which he was "radicalized," that is to say, he was given (and adopted) an ideological justification for his psychopathic behavior.

Cowardly multiculturalism thus makes itself the handmaiden of anti-Western extremism.

The fanatics and the bombers do not represent a resurgence of unreformed, fundamentalist Islam, but its death rattle.

Fascism is not fashion.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

Much extremist activity falls short of directly inciting people to violence or other crimes and so is not caught by laws on incitement. Neither does the Public Order Act, used to protect groups of people from harassment, deal with the problem.

The blame for the 9/11 attacks lays squarely and exclusively with the Al-Qaeda network.

Boko Haram, by itself, has destroyed large areas in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger.

There is no doubt something has happened that is lasting in terms of attractiveness of the nightmare that is the Islamic State.

jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them.

The magnitude of this event (9/11) turned the world into a scary place. And perhaps the scariest part of all was that these terrorists believed they were doing God's work. They were trained to view life on earth as of no value and that no act, no matter how barbaric, was off-limits if in pursuit of jihadd.

A place it was—or was meant to be—for prayer and good works and contemplation. But there are always some, aren't there, who believe what they believe is the only. And will do whatever it takes to force that belief on all. For me, those who would kill and burn and enslave in the name of a god, well, they don't hear the god they claim to worship. Or the god is a false and cruel one.

But there are always some, aren't there, who believe what they believe is the only. And will do whatever it takes to force that belief on all. For me, those who would kill and burn and enslave in the name of a god, well, they don't hear the god they claim to worship.

I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn't screw to save its species. I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers and smother all the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted to breathe smoke.

Still—leave it to an American to take something too far.

Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice

The pendulum had swung too far, as always, and now was swinging back, and the horror of intolerance had been loosed upon the land.

The Saudis think that God is on their side, and people who think God is on their side are capable of the most inhumane acts.

This may play well in certain extreme right- and left-wing political circles. But such unrest exacts a huge price on U.S. credibility abroad in all the challenging arenas summarized here, and in others yet to emerge. Political cannibalism at home will severely undercut the authority and credibility of America's role in the world. It will exacerbate U.S. efforts to manage a range of existing security issues and new ones yet unimagined.

I don't want to teach Pakistani's children to think like Americans...I just want them to have a balanced, non-extremist education

I have always been dismayed by the West's failure—or unwillingness—to recognize that establishing secular schools that offer children a balanced and nonextremist form of education is probably the cheapest and most effective way of combating this kind of indoctrination.

In Muslim societies, a person who has been manipulated unto believing in extremist violence or terrorism often seeks the permission of his mother before he may join a militant jihad and educated women as a rule, tend to withhold their blessings from such things.

We're living in weird times, Streak. I bet forty percent of the country wouldn't mind firing up the ovens as long as the smokestacks are blowing downwind.