Peter Bergen Quotes

Isis Remains! ISIS Expands!.

Any time you have someone's first-hand account of the sheer terror that ISIS can provoke... that's powerful.

There is no doubt that terrorists acting under the banner of Islam have declared war on us.

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.

The truth is our country, our people, our liberties, and our way of life are under attack by radical Islamic terrorists who kill and destroy in the name of religion.

Blood is shed over politics, religion and the two in combination.

Children are being beheaded, women are being raped, men are being crucified, and Christians are being forced to “convert or die”. This is the essence of radical Islam: the barbarians even kill Muslims, as well as Christians, Jews, and others who are not like them.

I am certain - I am deadly certain that we cannot win this war unless we are free to call our enemy by name: Radical Islamicists and failed tyrants.

The acronym ISIS stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. But increasingly, we see that it's not limited there. We see it in Egypt. We see it in Libya. We see it in Afghanistan.

Put simply, we are still at war with radical Islamic groups and an ideological movement that can't be ignored nor wished away.

I think ISIS is achieving the objectives that they have set out to achieve. I think that they feel probably very emboldened. They feel pretty good. Their resiliency is extraordinary.

ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.

To ISIS and others: We will defeat you.

What they have done, ISIS is very well outspoken about how much they hate our freedom, who we are as Americans.

The Islamic State is using medieval tactics.

ISIS has never fought a real battle.

Incitement and anti-Arab hatred increased significantly during the Gaza conflict.

I don't believe ISIS is real.

Well, you got to remember, bin Laden killed 3,000 Americans and, in some ways, he and his ideology killed tens of thousands of his fellow Muslims, including Pakistanis. I understand that that was provocative and complicated for Pakistan, but only if you accept the idea that he was an acceptable member of Pakistani society.

What could be better in al-Qaeda's mind than to have India and Pakistan going at each other? What more to further their aims?

Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives, just to create chaos for news cameras.

For many foreign fighters, the jihad in Iraq and Syria is a commuter war.

Well, today, we are in the struggle brought on to us by the terrorists of Islam. It is a war that we did not choose. It was a war that was declared against us as Americans, against our people, against our Constitution.

Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.

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