Karan Mahajan Quotes

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

In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.

Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.

Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives.

Terrorists convince thousands of people to kill themselves in the name of God. I can't convince two of my friends to help me move.

The Fiqh Council of North America wishes to reaffirm Islam's absolute condemnation of terrorism and religious extremism. Islam strictly condemns religious extremism and the use of violence against innocent lives. There is no justification in Islam for extremism or terrorism. Targeting civilians’ life and property through suicide bombings or any other method of attack is haram – or forbidden -- and those who commit these barbaric acts are criminals, not martyrs.

The fact that the Moslem fundamentalist terrorists have these odd beliefs doesn’t mean that they are stupid.

Terrorism is not a cause; it is a crime.

We know what causes terrorism. Terrorists cause terrorism.

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

There is an extremism of ends and there is an extremism of means. The Muslim Brotherhood desired ends are extreme, but their means are not. They are committed to non violence as a means.

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

Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context.

Since 9/11 we have somehow come to accept the 'radicalization' narrative, which basically holds that people become terrorists through a series of consecutive, traceable steps laid out for them by large international Islamic organizations. Reality is messier, and also smaller.

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.

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.

Islamic terrorists are new examples of an old problem with fascism.

The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.

It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.

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

There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist techniques.

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

Terrorists, in ungoverned spaces, disseminate poisonous propaganda and training materials to attract troubled souls around the world to their cause.

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.