Ahmed Zewail Quotes

Fundamentalist governments and organizations endanger stability in the world.

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as more recent attacks in Madrid, Spain, and London, England, showed in a very tragic way just how vulnerable many areas of the world are to these sorts of actions.

What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.

Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.

American wars in Muslim countries created some extremists and inflamed many more while producing a security vacuum that allowed them to wreak mayhem.

Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future

A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.

It is important to stress: Africa is also a victim of the September 11 attacks.

Less than a year after the Sept. 11 attacks, al-Qaida attacks were continuing: the firebombing of a synagogue in Tunisia in April, a bomb outside the U.S. Consulate in Karachi in June.

I think the War on Terror has succeeded in creating more terror, more terrorists, a less safe America, and a less safe world.

The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and put Muslims on the spotlight.

When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.

This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time.

All together, we know for many years that terror is the most dangerous thing for local, regional and international stability.

When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism.

Al Qaeda will always focus on us, the United States. And they will take advantage of any situation.

The growing menace of violent extremism and outright barbarism is our common threat today.

The jihadists watch carefully what's happening in the Middle East and take heart, or lose heart, depending on what's happening.

Verses of the Koran and of the Prophet are being isolated and used to justify violence.

They may be rich, they may be powerful, they may have atom bombs, but Americans and British are no longer safe anywhere in the world…. They may perhaps be able to put Al-Qaeda out of commission, but that does not mean that there will not be other groups. They have been killing so-called terrorist all these years, but there'll simply be more and more terrorists

We have had suicide bombers in London and we are seeing riots across the Channel. However the media and our Government try to cloud the issue by blaming British and French society and not the terrorists and rioters. They deliberately avoid pinpointing the driving force behind these attacks, which is a religion that is alien to these shores and in its latest fundamental form threatens our very way of life

The attack of September 11 can be described as a very intense “Faith-Based Initiative.”

Tragically however, even the adherents of Islam present it as a threat to international peace by promoting terrorism in the name of God and in the name of the Holy Prophet (sa) of Islam, who was a living paragon of peace. If the West presents Islam as a religion of terror and denial of fundamental human rights, the fault is not entirely theirs. It is largely shared, to say the least, by the clergy of various Muslim denominations.

Why is the Muslim world plagued by instability, undemocratic governments, and sectarian violence?

I have always wondered why the Muslim world is in the eye of virtually every storm, in my lifetime at least?