Richard Engel Quotes

My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.

Over the course of history many religions have fallen victim to violent interpretations.

There are many people who live with terrorism every day.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

If I have been guilty of no violation of law, why am I hunted up and down continually like a partridge upon the mountains? Why am I threatened with the tar barrel? Why am I waylaid every day, and from night to night, and my life in jeopardy every hour?

I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions.

When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

I've had threats.

Violence is not a function of the Islamic faith.

Religion is as much a living spring of violence today as it was at any time in the past. The recent conflicts in Palestine (Jews versus Muslims), the Balkans (Orthodox Serbians versus Catholic Croatians; Orthodox Serbians versus Bosnian and Albanian Muslims), Northern Ireland (Protestants versus Catholics), Kashmir (Muslims versus Hindus), Sudan (Muslims versus Christians and animists), Nigeria (Muslims versus Christians), Ethiopia and Eritrea (Muslims versus Christians), Sri Lanka (Sinhalese Buddhists versus Tamil Hindus), Indonesia (Muslims versus Timorese Christians), Iran and Iraq (Shiite versus Sunni Muslims), and the Caucasus (Orthodox Russians versus Chechen Muslims; Muslim Azerbaijanis versus Catholic and Orthodox Armenians) are merely a few cases in point. In these places religion has been the explicit cause of literally millions of deaths in the last 10 years.

They will not stop fighting you until they turn you back from your faith if they can

The whole history of the last thousands of years has been a history of religious persecutions and wars, pogroms, jihads, crusades. I find it all very regrettable, to say the least

Violence is the tax that Moslems must pay for gaining authority on earth.

You may kill me, but don’t think that I am the only white man in the country. There are many others who will be willing to avenge my death, and let me tell you that in less than two years from now there won’t be an Arab left in the entire country now held by your people.

to vex and oppress each other.

O ye who believe, Fight those of the disbelievers who are near to you and let them find harshness in you.

The theory that our religion is a peaceful and loving religion is a wrong theory

… fight idolaters wherever you may find them; take them and besiege them, and waylay them at every outpost.

The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.

Organized groups claiming roots in religious ideologies have unleashed an all-pervasive fear of mob violence in many parts of the country.

We often speak of domestic terrorism and hate crimes in the same breath, and there is a fine line between the two, and certainly overlap in some cases.

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

I am thankful that all the people in the world who absolutely, positively, know what God wants, usually kill mostly each other.

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.