Maajid Nawaz Quotes

Social media is not only the most important tool for inciting terrorists, it can also be an effective weapon against them.

The British and French governments have taken a strong stance against 'extremist content' online when addressing their approach to tackling extremism.

Social media campaigns and the savviness of ISIS and propaganda is what greatly concerns us Homeland Security officials.

It is the thing that keeps me up at night - the notion that you have individuals in the United States who are looking at computer screens and who are becoming radicalized.

Twitter is providing a communication device, a loudspeaker for ISIS. If you are promoting violence and a call to violence. If you are promoting violence and a call to violence, you are providing material support. Twitter should be part of the solution. If not, they are part of the problem.

The threat from terrorists - from extreme ideologies - needs to be challenged head-on.

We have about 200,000 ISIS tweets per day that hit the United States. The chatter is so loud and the volume is so high that it's a problem that's very hard to stop and disrupt in this country.

You and I can go on YouTube and learn how to fix a tractor engine or learn Farsi. Groups are using those tools to recruit young people into a climate of hatred.

The goal of isolating extremists and making them unwelcome in Muslim communities has been abandoned.

Law enforcement has seen an unprecedented use of social media by ISIL. They're just kind of flooding the airwaves.

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

Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.

Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home.

I don't like showing my privacy online.

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

When you were growing up, your mom and dad told you to look both ways before crossing the street or not to get into a car with a stranger. It's the same with the Internet. We have a big responsibility and a huge role in bringing all the stakeholders to the table - users, parents, educators, law enforcement, government organisations.

There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them.

I do go online a lot.

How did ISIL grow? It's real simple: social media.

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.

Just take terrorism, for example. We have a team of more than 200 people working on counterterrorism. I mean, that's pretty intense. That's not like what people think about what Facebook is.

The condition that the Taliban part with al Qaeda is not just a condition, it is an objective. We must convince them that al Qaeda ideology and dogma will not help them.

We think there should be a better countering-violent-extremism effort, that there should be a lead agency tasked to handle that.

Social media companies must work closely with the U.S. government to ensure their platforms are not being used by terrorist organizations to do harm to our country.

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.