Christopher Hitchens Quotes

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.

The unimaginable brutality of this latest manifestation of Political Islam in the Arab world is too much to bear for many Muslim Arab

I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.

Boko Haram Translation: Western education is sinful

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

There is a cancer of extremism that infects Islam today.

Now we have a generational threat struggle called Islamist extremism.

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

Pakistan and its associates find it difficult to understand that there are no 'good terrorists and bad terrorists.'

The threat from radical Islam is real.

[ Jihadists] are going to be against you sooner or later.

It's my duty to fight those who have chosen to belong to the party of death, those who say they receive their orders from God somewhere and believe they have a duty to set the world on fire to achieve their own salvation.

One thing that I don’t know if people have come to grips with yet is just how serious ISIS is, just how serious militant Islamists are about Sharia. There is no compromise. There is no halfway. There is no mutual cohabitation plan.

This sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on your TV everyday letting off bombs and killing people in the name of God. Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.

This is a global effort we're going to have to lead to overcome this jihadist effort. It's more than Osama bin Laden. But he is going to pay, and he will die.

I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.

Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies.

The terrorists hide behind Allah.

This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.

The Muslim Brotherhood is the parent organization of extreme ideology. They are the godfather of all terrorist organizations. They spread it all over the world.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and maim on religious grounds.

Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.

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

I think Mohammed was a terrorist.