Bashir Assad Quotes

Terrorism and religious extremism are huge challenges. They go hand in glove.

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

The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

ISIL does something al-Qaida would never imagine: they test people by tasking them.

Since 9/11 we have somehow come to accept the 'radicalization' narrative, which basically holds that people become terrorists through a series of consecutive, traceable steps laid out for them by large international Islamic organizations. Reality is messier, and also smaller.

Terrorists continue to be outliers with limited appeal at best.

Let's make two things clear: Isil is not "Islamic." No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of Isil's victims have been Muslim. And Isil is certainly not a state.

Terrorism is the intentional use of, or threat to use violence against civilians or against civilian targets, in order to attain political aims.

They’re nothing more than domestic terrorists.

Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman.

We must be certain that we all realize that our enemy is not an enemy that is located in one single place. There are terrorist cells all around the globe.

It is changing the face of terrorism. It is basically bringing it to the United States, to our great citizens. We know the terrorists are barbaric and murderers that attack innocent civilians, as they did in this case.

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

There are two kinds of terrorism. Rational terrorism such as Palestinian terrorism and apocalyptic terrorism like Sept. 11. You have to distinguish between the two.

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.

Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.

What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.

Of course, Islamist terrorists must be captured or killed and their networks disrupted. But to stop their movement’s growth, their ideology must also be undermined.

Terrorism has no motherland and terrorists have no nationality.

Now we have a generational threat struggle called Islamist extremism.

ISIL is inspiring groups that already exist to rebrand themselves, but in rebranding themselves into a more radical ideology. That's what makes it dangerous.

The Iranian state sponsors radicalism.

We will continue to work around the world to beat ISIS about where they may exist, these are horrible ideologies or murderous ideologies.

Homegrown terrorists are a real problem for even the most modern, democratic societies.

We need to make sure these Islamic terrorist organizations don't become mainstream. We're fighting an ideology as much as a group of radical terrorists.