Ehud Barak Quotes

… the Middle East has experienced a general ‘Islamization’ and radicalization of society ensuing from the rigid religious and often intolerant character of the civil society organizations now performing functions previously in the hands of state authorities.

I have traveled a lot in the world, and wherever Islam is in charge, it's just terrible.

You would be wrong to assume democracy would be the only alternative if the old regimes [in the Middle East] fell. There is a much better-organized alternative already waiting, and that is ... fundamentalism.

If someone is supporting Sharia, that is doing something wrong.

A real totalitarianism is at work in the world and wants to impose its views not only on Arab Muslims, but on the West. The same way that they veil women, Islamic radicals want to veil cartoons in the press.

The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil.

Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror.

Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society - the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanatacism.

Political Islam is exclusive in its claims.

Islam is a dragon ... the terrible mortal enemy of all our fundamental values and something which, unchecked, will bring misery and disaster to this country.

The danger of the Shiite heretics to the region, is not less than the danger of the Jews and the Christians.

If you can’t find any Christians or Jews to kill, vent your wrath against the next available Shia.

Palestinian terrorism is in part not national at all, but religious. Therefore, granting national satisfaction will not solve the problem of this terrorism.

You are unjustified if you use the Koran to justify murder.

Islamic fundamentalism is going to make a hell of a lot of trouble for the peace of mankind …. The so-called mullahs and Muslim scholars in the mosques want to keep the people ignorant because that is where they get their power. They are ruining the modern generation of Muslims who were born and bred here, telling them they have no loyalty to this country. Unless you do something about Muslim fundamentalism, there is going to be a huge fifth column in our midst.

Saudi Arabia is the mother and father of political Islam.

I do not believe that the Sunni tribes have gone over to the Islamic State.

The Islamic State is using medieval tactics.

Terror outfits like ISIS don't believe in a plural society and diversity of faith, which reflects inherent beauty of human beings.

Palestinians are becoming religiously fanatic. Israel is becoming irrelevant. They do it for religious purpose, fanatic, they want to conquer the Middle East under the command of the Iranians.

The rise of what's called Islamic fundamentalism is to a significant extent a result of the collapse of secular nationalist alternatives which were either discredited internally or destroyed, leaving few other options. Something like that may be true of American society.

What they have done, ISIS is very well outspoken about how much they hate our freedom, who we are as Americans.

If there is one thing French Muslims want, it is to be rid of the daily pressures imposed on them by Islamic fundamentalists.

Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.

Islamism is a monstrous totalitarian ideology that has declared war on our nation, on reason, on civilization.