Deeyah Khan Quotes

It is not enough to tackle the mechanics of terror organizations. We must also tackle the situations that create terrorists. We desperately need to address the frustration, the loss and the despair that drive some to these actions.

Now, I am not saying that there is one single type of individual who is a better type of terrorist than another. What I am saying is that the circumstances that push certain individuals over the edge, to become terrorists, are generally very, very similar.

A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.

I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.

It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.

The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new.

But as I often say, terrorists won't check our party registration before they blow us up.

Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective.

Terrorism is partly linked to people who have no jobs in Pakistan.

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

Terrorism springs from sources other than the form of government of a state. There is no reason to believe that a more democratic Arab world will, simply by virtue of being more democratic, generate fewer terrorists.

It’s the confrontation with modernity that produces terrorism.

We know what causes terrorism. Terrorists cause terrorism.

It is a dangerously short step from frustration to fanaticism.

Half of Syria's refugees are children, and we know what can happen to children who grow to adulthood without hope or opportunity in refugee camps. The camps become fertile recruiting grounds for violent extremists.

When people don't have a hopeful vision before them or the possible resolution of their difficulties by peaceful means, then they can be attracted to violence and to separatism.

I am concerned about any form of violent extremism.

Corruption is rife in the Muslim world, and when it is coupled with the marginalization of religion, it manifests itself as frustration and becomes a fertile recruiting ground for extremism.

Terrorism and the fight against extremism is our fight.

I'm interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

There are trends in our societies... that can lead to some political decisions in America and in Europe that can give some ground to the radicalization discourse.

What we're seeing at the moment is people being radicalised or adopting Islamist, murderous Islamist ideology very, very quickly so that you have people that are not on the counterterrorism radar screen who then often, as a result of mental illness, will then attach themselves to this murderous ideology and then act very quickly.

Radicalism and extremism, while they are dangers, they exist in every society on some level.

Fascism is the frenzy of sexual cripples.

Somebody ought to have the courage to tell the truth. These people are terrorists.