Michael McCaul Quotes

For Islamist terrorist groups such as ISIS, the holy month of Ramadan - a time of fasting and prayer for the vast majority of Muslims - is seen as a particularly auspicious time to launch terrorist attacks.

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

I think Mohammed was a terrorist.

The terrorists hide behind Allah.

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.

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

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.

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

Muslims who commit terrorist acts are perverting their religion.

In late May 2016, an ISIS spokesman called for attacks in the West during the month of Ramadan.

The most extreme individuals and factions in Islamic countries are now more motivated than ever to kill Americans, and the number of potential terrorists has greatly expanded.

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

We have to target the place of the enemy, not countries where many Muslims live. according to bin Laden, if Muslims come across Americans, they have to attack them. Osama believes in total war. This concept I don’t agree with. If this occurs in an Islamic country, the fitnah [discord] will be felt by Muslims. But to attack them in their country [America] is fine

We are successful every time. Martyrdom, victory, fighting with the infidel is always a success.

Boko Haram Translation: Western education is sinful

Islamic fundamentalism is attacking us at home.

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

Islamic terrorists do not need an excuse to attack the United States. To attack us is what they do; they attack us for what we are.

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

For many, embracing the ideology of Osama bin Laden or ISIS allowed them to become the heroes of their own story as well as actors in a cosmic crusade. For others, a 'cognitive opening' to militant Islam was often precipitated by a personal disappointment or loss.

Islamist terrorism has declared war against us, against France, Europe, the entire world.

Islamists are nothing but guided missiles that pride themselves on taking out as many infidels as possible.

ISIS hates the West as an abominable nest of infidels - infidels who reject the Quran and Shariah Law and so must be annihilated. We are the obstacle to the new Caliphate.

ISIS and radical Islam have declared war on us not because of anything we have done - not because we are a friend to Israel and not because we have not yet toppled the bloody Syrian dictator Assad. ISIS and radical Islamists hate us for who we are. The irony is, we ourselves do not know who we are.

The threat from radical Islam is real.