Nadia Murad Quotes

ISIS is in many ways a creation of the Syrian regime.

ISIS filled the vacuum in Iraq and Syria created by a lack of effective governance.

The deep problems that afflict the Middle East are not easy to fix, but they must be dealt with if we are not to see a son of ISIS, or even a grandson of ISIS, developing in the years to come.

Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands.

Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.

When it is over, if it is over, this war will have horrible consequences. Instead of having one Bin Laden, we will have 100 Bin Ladens.

Terrorism often finds a home in states mired in civil war …

The Sunni militants that make up ISIS are not the underlying problem in Syria and Iraq, but rather they are a symptom of other deeper problems.

The answer as to why ISIS gained power and influence, and why stability in the Middle East has disastrously deteriorated, does not require extensive analysis.

If anything caused ISIS, it was the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

I've often said that the ISIS-Syria-Iraq mess is about as bad as it could be.

Anytime ISIS takes ground, it's a bad thing.

I have long argued that ISIS and Assad are not separate problems to be chosen between, but are action and reaction, cause and symptom, chicken and egg: impossible to untangle no matter how much we might like to.

I think that ISIS is a problem and it's really a symptom of a much greater problem.

Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.

I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.

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

The war being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq is bringing about a fundamental change to the environment that has given rise and power to the extremists who export terrorism.

The Wahhabists are the boogeymen, the guys who will chop the head off any American they catch. And they will destroy Iraq without a second thought if they believe that the instability will benefit them.

I think it is absolutely correct to solve the problem of terrorism in Iraq and Syria and Libya.

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

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

Extremism in Syria cannot be contained within Syria.

Terrorism is only a problem in failed states with significant Muslim populations.

Failed states have become breeding grounds for conflict.