Asma Jahangir Quotes

We can see that immigration has become favorable terrain for the development of Islamism.

During the 1990s, world leaders looked at the mounting threat of terrorism, looked up, looked away, and hoped the problem would go away.

We can't afford to see Afghanistan roll backwards into a failed state that could become a base from which terrorist campaigns can be launched anywhere in the world.

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

Democratization is not necessarily the best way to fight Islamic extremism, because the transition to democracy has been found to be an especially vulnerable period for states across the board.

We can't completely isolate ourselves from international terrorism and the problem the world faces.

This issue of terrorism is as much an issue for Pakistan as it is a Western issue.

The biggest danger for any organism is to not identify that it's being threatened. I want to hope that people realize that the source of danger and risk in the Middle East is not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but the deep radical Islamic vision of forming a global caliphate.

[Roots of terrorism] come out of a long dialectic of U.S. involvement in the affairs of the Islamic world, the oil-producing world, the Arab world, the Middle East - those areas that are considered to be essential to U.S. interests and security.

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

Daesh is the enemy of Europe, and Europe cannot live with the idea that the crises that surround it don't have an effect on it.

If you think you can finish ISIS off with the PYD and YPG, you cannot, because they are terrorist groups as well.

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

Where the West has intervened in African domestic affairs, such as it did in Libya 2011, the country became a cradle of extremism that exports weapons, jihadists, and ideology to the rest of Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.

Let's have a conversation about how we destroy ISIS.

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 safe haven that al-Qaida has found in Pakistan is very troubling.

I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.

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.

We have to fight all terrorist groups, and not arm one to fight another.

One thing is certain: we will not be successful in this fight against ISIS and other extremist groups unless countries in the region are a major part of the coalition.

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.

A country without a strong leader will go down.

We need to eradicate these terrorist groups, wherever they are. If we failed to do it, we are just waiting for the next.

I truly do believe that history teaches that weakness arouses evil, and whether it be the horrific attack in France, the inspired attacks here in the United States, the instability in Turkey that led to a coup.