Dalai Lama Quotes

Let's make two things clear: Isil is not "Islamic." No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of Isil's victims have been Muslim. And Isil is certainly not a state.

You can't differentiate between an Islamic terrorist and a Christian terrorist. Or a politically motivated terrorist who's anti-abortion or someone who may have differing views.

Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization.

Terrorism needs to be fought against and certainly delegitimized or attacked, but some of the underlying grievances that might in fact lead individuals astray to terrorism cannot be ignored.

Terrorism is you winning hearts and minds of people.

What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.

Palestinian terrorism is in part not national at all, but religious. Therefore, granting national satisfaction will not solve the problem of this terrorism.

This is the new wave, the new generation of terrorism. It's gone viral. It's very dangerous, and it's very hard to stop.

Terrorism and religious extremism are huge challenges. They go hand in glove.

I am concerned about any form of violent extremism.

I see no difference between a violent Islamist and a far-Right terrorist.

Since 9/11 we have somehow come to accept the 'radicalization' narrative, which basically holds that people become terrorists through a series of consecutive, traceable steps laid out for them by large international Islamic organizations. Reality is messier, and also smaller.

ISIS uses traditional media platforms as well as widespread social media campaigns to propagate its ideology. With the broad distribution of social media, terrorists can spot, assess, recruit, and radicalize vulnerable persons of all ages in the U.S. either to travel to foreign lands or to conduct an attack on the homeland.

Terrorism and extremism bear different names and labels. It uses diverse causes. But in each case, it is driven by distortion of religion and a misguided belief in its power to succeed.

Terrorists continue to be outliers with limited appeal at best.

From Jewish terrorism against Arabs it is a short step to Jewish terrorism against Jews.

Terrorist bombers on the left, fascist plots on the right.

Islamic terrorists are new examples of an old problem with fascism.

You may think that those aeroplanes in this city on 9/11 came out of a clear, blue sky. I believe they emerged out of a swamp of hatred created by us.

No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.

Terrorism is nothing new. Lots of terrorist attacks are nothing new, but we pay a lot more attention to them today.

Terrorism is everywhere. You think of the tribal terrorism of some African countries.

The suicide bomber who blows up Israeli children cannot transform himself into a martyr. The Palestinian problem is not an Islamic problem.

We can't accommodate terrorism. When someone uses the slaughter of innocent people to advance a so-called political cause, at that point the political cause becomes immoral and unjust and they should be eliminated from any serious discussion, any serious debate.

Terrorism emanates from weakness, not strength. It is the sign of despair.