Peter Bergen Quotes

When 9/11 hit, the second thing I said to myself was, 'This really is what religious people do.' Those people flying the plane were very good, very pious, truly faithful believers. There's no other way to paint them. Of course, they are extremists by definition, but they certainly aren't going against Islam in any real way.

We can't be afraid to call the enemy what it is: Radical Islamic terrorism.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

Conversion to Islam substantially increases the probability of a person's involvement in terrorism.

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

Islamic terrorism is the handiwork of people who’ve heeded, not hijacked, Islam.

The Islamic State’s signature black flag will fly over 10 Downing Street not to mention the White House. And it won’t happen peaceably, but only after a great battle that is now under way…. there will be a complete domination of the world by Islam.

We do not want to live under the yoke of the threat of Islamic fundamentalism.

Now we have a generational threat struggle called Islamist extremism.

There is no link between the terror attacks of Daesh and the dress of a woman on the beach.

ISIS and Al-Qaeda and whoever else, that is the only way they stop is after we convert. That’s what they say. The only way this stops is when the infidels convert.

Americans are going to see that as the more religious a Muslim is, the more likely they're going to end up somehow fighting for ISIS' cause.

Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us.

Nobody can deny there is a rise of Islamic fundamentalism.

The terrorists hide behind Allah.

Many Muslims may not seek to kill the infidel, but they don't want to condemn those carrying out the holy book command.

The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community.

I know people who support Hamas, but they never got involved in terrorist attacks, for example... they follow Hamas because they love God and they think that Hamas represents God. They don't have knowledge, they don't know the real God, and they never studied Christianity. But Hamas, as representative for Islam, it's a big problem.

I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.

Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and maim on religious grounds.

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

The Moslem terrorists are enemies for life as well as of life.

We have been the victims of Islamic terrorism for 30 years now. You cannot split the terrorism from the origin of it---Islam.

The Fiqh Council of North America wishes to reaffirm Islam's absolute condemnation of terrorism and religious extremism. Islam strictly condemns religious extremism and the use of violence against innocent lives. There is no justification in Islam for extremism or terrorism. Targeting civilians’ life and property through suicide bombings or any other method of attack is haram – or forbidden -- and those who commit these barbaric acts are criminals, not martyrs.

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