Penn Jillette Quotes

Terrorism is not related to Islam.

When fundamentalism comes to kill, it can kill with the language - the Apostle James says this, not me - and even with a knife, no?

I think everybody who commits a violent killing is in some way crazy. But that doesn't mean we can let them off the hook for that.

A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

All religions accept that there is something called 'criminality.' And criminality cannot be excused by religious fervour.

He who kills even one unbeliever of those who rule over us, whether he does it secretly or openly, shall be rewarded by God. And let every Moslem, in whatever part of the world he may be, swear a solemn oath to kill at least three or four of the infidels who rule over him, for they are the enemies of God and of the faith. Let every Moslem know that his reward for doing so shall be doubled by the God who created heaven and earth. A Moslem who does this shall be saved from the terrors of the day of Judgment, of the resurrection of the dead. Who is the man who can refuse such a recompense for such a small deed? ... Yet the time has come that we should rise up as the rising of one man, in one hand a sword, in the other a gun, in his pocket balls of fire and death-dealing missiles, and in his heart the light of the faith.

In El Paso, the people are homicidal but orthodox.

Suicide mass murderers, not suicide bombers. Horrorism, not terrorism

Terrorists have hijacked our religion.

Terrorism is perpetrated by individuals and cannot be blamed on any one religion, be it Sikhism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, or Christianity.

I do not believe it is right to identify Islam with violence. This is not right or true.

There is no such things as "Islamic terrorism," because terrorism differs from Islam. There's just terrorism, not Islamic terrorism. But the term "Islamic terrorism" has become widespread.

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

Terrorism is usually fueled by poverty, and the fanatical faith of the terrorists who truly believe that the more people they kill who do not subscribe to their faith, the greater their reward in heaven.

I do not believe, that it is true or right that Islam is terrorist.

Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have implacable faith that they are right and the other is evil. Each believes that when he dies he is going to heaven. Each believes that if he could kill the other, his path to paradise in the next world would be even swifter. The delusional "next world" is welcome to both of them. This world would be a much better place without either of them.

People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.

In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.

Just because a man is a homicidal maniac doesn't make him wrong.

Jihad is our path and death in the name of Allah is our goal.

Americans understand we fight not a religion; ours is not a campaign against the Muslim faith. Ours is a campaign against evil.

Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.

Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. . . . . . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.