Asma Jahangir Quotes

Terrorism and extremism bear different names and labels. It uses diverse causes. But in each case, it is driven by distortion of religion and a misguided belief in its power to succeed.

Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies.

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.

Pakistan and its associates find it difficult to understand that there are no 'good terrorists and bad terrorists.'

Terrorism is perpetrated by individuals and cannot be blamed on any one religion, be it Sikhism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, or Christianity.

Terrorism is not something that is being conducted in dark corners of Pakistan. It's done in broad daylight.

We are not fighting against the Palestinian people, and we are not at war with Islam. We are fighting against terrorism.

You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montana, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.

There are works of fiction which seek to explain jihadi terrorists as the militant wing of Amnesty International. I don't buy that.

This is a war against terrorists. Not a war against a religion, but a war against terrorists.

There are two kinds of terrorism. Rational terrorism such as Palestinian terrorism and apocalyptic terrorism like Sept. 11. You have to distinguish between the two.

We must find out where the roots of terrorism lie.

It is necessary to name the enemy of human civilization, and this enemy is international terrorism associated with religious fundamentalism and religious intolerance.

The War on Terror is a religious war … We are dealing with a set of ideas that kill.

Terrorism is a means/a tactic, not an ideological or defined physical enemy

Terrorists hate the ideas America has championed around the world. It is inevitable that people will wonder if there are intellectual connections with others who have turned to violence to attack international finance, globalization and the United States

The real threat comes from terrorism.

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

I am concerned about any form of violent extremism.

We need to make sure these Islamic terrorist organizations don't become mainstream. We're fighting an ideology as much as a group of radical terrorists.

We give parity to all terrorism regardless of ideology.

Terrorists continue to be outliers with limited appeal at best.

International terrorists who pursue completely mad objectives such as establishing a world caliphate or something of the sort, are quite adept at disguising their real aims as a struggle for independence in Chechnya.

They’re nothing more than domestic terrorists.