Michael McCaul Quotes

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

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

The Muslim Brotherhood is the parent organization of extreme ideology. They are the godfather of all terrorist organizations. They spread it all over the world.

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

Where did Islamic radicalism grow in the past years? It grew under dictatorships.

Boko Haram Translation: Western education is sinful

There is a cancer of extremism that infects Islam today.

What we have seen with Islamist extremism, whether it is in Mali or Somalia or Afghanistan, is that the disease is not necessarily the individual country. The disease is the Islamist extremism, and that's what we have to fight; that's the narrative that we have to beat.

ISIL does something al-Qaida would never imagine: they test people by tasking them.

Islamic extremism may well be the greatest threat to Western values and Western security in the world.

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

The threat from radical Islam is real.

We cannot be complacent about the determination of radical Islamic extremists to destroy our freedoms.

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.

The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.

The terrorists hide behind Allah.

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

If you are a Christian, you are in danger. Even if you are an atheist, you are in danger, and if you decide to convert to Islam, this will not save you, either, because traditional Islam is inimical to the conditions and objectives set by them [the terrorists]. If you are prepared to become a most radical Islamist and are prepared to circumcise yourself, I invite you to come to Moscow. I will recommend having the operation done in such a way that nothing will grow for you there anymore.

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

You cannot stop an Islamist tsunami by building a small island somewhere in the ocean.

Think of ISIS as a pathogen that preys on weak hosts in the Muslim world. In fact, there is something of a political law: The weaker a Muslim state, the stronger will be the presence of ISIS or like-minded groups.

I do not believe that the Sunni tribes have gone over to the Islamic State.

Islamist terrorism is a cancer on Islam, and Muslims themselves must fight it at our side.

When mainstream Muslims defeat the Islamic State, that lessens the ability of the Islamic State to recruit and fund-raise.

ISIS takes a long-term approach to its apocalyptic war with West - we have to do the same.