Christine Leunens Quotes

It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere.

In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.

Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.

At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.

Some people are afraid that there will be an European “us verses them” dichotomy with the Moslems. There already is an “us verses them” dichotomy. What else can you call it when “them” is killing “us.”

There are four Muslim families in San Angelo...and that's four too many …. There is 1.6 billion...Muslims in the world, and they claim that only 10 percent of the Muslims is radical Islamists. That means there is 160 million Muslim terrorists in the world.

Ethno-nationalism - it's losers. It's a fringe element. I think the media plays it up too much, and we gotta help crush it, you know, eh, help crush it more.

The threat from the far right is as corrosive as the twisted Islamist ideologies so many Muslims have spoken out against.

It annoys me right-wing extremism is not equated to Islamic extremism.

If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.

We must maximize our efforts to counter violent extremism, radicalization and recruitment in the United States and stop using xenophobia and ethnic stereotyping.

Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.

I think that anybody can become a terrorist. That's my point of view. But, not everybody can actually kill. In order to reach that level, you have to be deeply convinced.

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

Senseless violence is, almost by definition, hard to understand. Not that I can understand terrorists who kill from hate, but at least we can identify a reason - a terrifying one, to be sure, grounded in a violent belief system - for what they do. Two gangs go to war. Extremists kill in the name of belief.

The government wants to be able to attack extremism and hatred wherever it occurs.

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.

Holy war against lackeys, Jews, Christians and atheists.

… whose hatred of the Jews in unbridgeable.

National sentiments can cause such sinful phenomena as aggressive nationalism, xenophobia, national exclusiveness and inter-ethnic enmity. At their extremes, these phenomena often lead to the restriction of the rights of individuals and nations, wars and other manifestations of violence

A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.

Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying word.

Too often, we have failed to enforce international norms when its inconvenient to do so. And we have not confronted forcefully enough the intolerance, sectarianism, and hopelessness that feeds violent extremism in too many parts of the globe.

People don’t get radicalized overnight. It’s a process that takes 3 or 4 years.

My critics began saying I was a chauvinist, nationalist, mad nationalist.