Mona Eltahawy Quotes

ISIS is an idea. And we have to fight this idea with the same tools that they're using.

'Terrorism' itself is not an objective term or legitimate object of study, but was conceived of as a highly politicized instrument and has been used that way ever since.

We are in a battle, and more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media

ISIL are already using the Internet for hideous propaganda purposes - for radicalisation, for operational planning, too.

ISIL does something al-Qaida would never imagine: they test people by tasking them.

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.

One of the scariest things about ISIS is their ability to leverage social media to inspire individuals who have never been to Syria and Iraq.

The terrorists may want to try and legitimize their violence by cynically appealing to Islamic motifs or doctrines, but there is no reason the rest of us should help them do it.

The survival of ISIS's ideology is success enough for them. We must spare no effort in denying ISIS this success.

We have already seen ISIS use Donald Trump in their propaganda directly. I mean, I will go so far as to say Donald Trump is the ISIS candidate.

Anyone who kills women and children is not devout. ISIS cannot dress themselves up in false religious garb and say that somehow this message has dignity. We're going to strip them of any kind of legitimacy.

It is the thing that keeps me up at night - the notion that you have individuals in the United States who are looking at computer screens and who are becoming radicalized.

ISIL's widespread reach through the Internet and social media is most concerning, as the group has proven dangerously competent at employing such tools for its nefarious strategy. ISIL uses high-quality, traditional media platforms as well as widespread social media campaigns to propagate its extremist ideology.

Some of the people involved in ISIS are going to Iraq, and some of our young people are being radicalised through the Internet.

Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.

I think that in our society we use the word 'terrorism' a lot - individuals throw the word around a lot without carefully considering it.

We don't allow praise or support of terror groups and terror acts.

The success of terrorism anywhere breeds terrorism everywhere.

We know what causes terrorism. Terrorists cause terrorism.

The media can be a megaphone for terrorists to communicate their message. The media should put things in perspective and context and not instinctively do what the terrorists want the media to do.

How did ISIL grow? It's real simple: social media.

Social media campaigns and the savviness of ISIS and propaganda is what greatly concerns us Homeland Security officials.

We have about 200,000 ISIS tweets per day that hit the United States. The chatter is so loud and the volume is so high that it's a problem that's very hard to stop and disrupt in this country.

I think these al Qaeda franchise groups have clearly evolved into a much more dangerous strain.

Not all of the Islamic State killers are going to die on the battlefield.