Daniel Pipes Quotes

I think the American people pretty well understand that radical Islam has an agenda that includes us.

We need to be focused on defeating radical Islamic terrorists.

We are not at war with Islam. We are at war with people who have perverted Islam.

I would say, we have had a lot of problems with radical Islamic terrorism, that's what I'd say.

The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.

We've got jihadists. That doesn't mean that all Muslims are problems with respect to terrorism, but there is something going on here. We've got a problem dealing with one aspect of one portion of modern Islam - just as hundreds of years ago the world had a problem with Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition.

If you are a Christian, you are in danger. Even if you are an atheist, you are in danger, and if you decide to convert to Islam, this will not save you, either, because traditional Islam is inimical to the conditions and objectives set by them [the terrorists]. If you are prepared to become a most radical Islamist and are prepared to circumcise yourself, I invite you to come to Moscow. I will recommend having the operation done in such a way that nothing will grow for you there anymore.

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

If we … are going to ask the decent, silent majority of Muslim men -- and women -- to have the courage to face down the extremist bullies, then we need to have the courage and character to stand shoulder to shoulder with them doing it.

Children are being beheaded, women are being raped, men are being crucified, and Christians are being forced to “convert or die”. This is the essence of radical Islam: the barbarians even kill Muslims, as well as Christians, Jews, and others who are not like them.

We are in a global war with a radical and violent form of the Islamic religion, and it is irresponsible and dangerous to deny it.

We have a toxic ideology, hopefully very small, within Islam; certainly most people, most Muslims, don't agree with this violent, jihadist approach.

It may be politically incorrect to say, but it is nevertheless true that a terrorist today is exponentially more likely to be a Muslim than a Christian.

'Islamist terrorism.' The very phrase is contentious. No one wants to make this problem harder by unfairly branding and alienating a quarter of the world's population, and even in this construction, no one should be thinking this means all of Islam or all Muslims.

The threat from radical Islam is real.

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

We're not at war with all Muslims, we're at war with a subset of Islam that believes in killing in the name of religion, as jihadis do.

I would say, we have had a lot of problems with radical Islamic terrorism, that's what I'd say. We have had a lot of problems where you look at San Bernardino, you look at Orlando, you look at the World Trade Center, you look at so many different things. You look at what happened to the priest over the weekend in Paris, where his throat was cut, 85-year-old, beloved Catholic priest. You look at what happened in Nice, France.

It's not religious war, but Al-Qaeda always use religions, Islam - actually, as a pretext and as a cover and as a mantle for their war and for their terrorism and for their killing and beheading and so on.

Radical Islamic terrorism came into effect even more so than it has been in the past. People like what I say. People respect what I say. And we've opened up a very big discussion that needed to be opened up.

I don't think we're at war with Islam. I don't think we're at war with all Muslims. I think we're at war with jihadists.

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

Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries.

Chechens are Muslim, and some share the belief that the West is engaged in a global campaign against Islam.

Nobody can deny there is a rise of Islamic fundamentalism.