Dan Barker Quotes

The attack of September 11 can be described as a very intense “Faith-Based Initiative.”

Here is America struck by God Almighty in one of its vital organs, so that its greatest buildings are destroyed. God has blessed a group of vanguard Muslims, the forefront of Islam, to destroy America.

I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.

There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000.

We saw when those World Trade towers came down what these terrorists will do.

September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever.

Before September 11, 2001, it was responsible for more American deaths than any other terrorist organization.

Especially dangerous is crime disguised under political and pseudo-religious motives, such as terrorism and the like.

I don't believe a religion affords any protection if they are connected to any kind of terror.

After the horrific massacre Wednesday at the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, perhaps the West will finally put away its legion of useless tropes trying to deny the relationship between violence and radical Islam.

We need to confront the crisis of Islamic extremism and the Islamists and Islamic terror of all kinds. We must stop what they're doing to inspire, because they do nothing to inspire but kill. Religious leaders must make this absolutely clear. Barbarism will deliver you no glory. Piety to evil will bring you no dignity. If you choose the path of terror, your life will be empty, your life will be brief, and your soul will be fully condemned. And political leaders must speak out to affirm the same idea. Heroes don't kill innocents. They save them.

Back on September 11, terrorists attacked our metropolitan cores, two of America's great cities. They did that because they knew that was where they could do the most damage and weaken us the most.

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

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.

The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community.

I absolutely believe that another 9/11 is possible.

You know that ISIS wants to go in and take over the Vatican? You have heard that. You know, that's a dream of theirs, to go into Italy.

The reality is that al Qaeda has been trying to attack the United States since long before Iraq.

Before 9/11, absolutely, there were concerns about terrorism; but the world fundamentally changed.

Verses of the Koran and of the Prophet are being isolated and used to justify violence.

I think Mohammed was a terrorist.

The Moslem terrorists are enemies for life as well as of life.

The Koran says that it is the duty of Muslims to bring terror to the enemy, so being a terrorist makes me a good Muslim.

We have been the victims of Islamic terrorism for 30 years now. You cannot split the terrorism from the origin of it---Islam.