Deeyah Khan Quotes

Young men without prospects are open to radical offers.

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

P of what al Qaeda tries to do, and terrorists, is disrupt. Americans should live their lives just as they have every day, but just be aware.

I want to highlight once again that when we talk about the fight against terrorism and the circles around it and when we talk about ensuring the safety and the peace of all, we are not talking about fantasies.

Some of the people involved in ISIS are going to Iraq, and some of our young people are being radicalised through the Internet.

Terrorists convince thousands of people to kill themselves in the name of God. I can't convince two of my friends to help me move.

It's very difficult to tell someone how to protect themselves from a terrorist attack, whether it occurs in the U.S. or on foreign soil, particularly when you have terrorists with no concern for human life.

There has been a failure to grasp how competing narratives fight for the attention of angry young Muslims, and we have grossly underestimated the appeal of the jihadist brand.

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.

There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as more recent attacks in Madrid, Spain, and London, England, showed in a very tragic way just how vulnerable many areas of the world are to these sorts of actions.

We are not going to damage our safety and our security. We're not going to give those extremists the privilege to come so freely to Israel in order to carry out more attacks against us and kill us one day after another.

Islamic terrorist organizations use sections of the Koran to recruit and brainwash idealistic young Moslems to engage in violent, murderous attacks on non-Moslems. The important question facing Moslem leaders … is, how do they teach and explain these passages from the Koran to their Moslem congregations and Moslem school students? Is it made absolutely clear that even though those passages are in the Koran, which is their Holy Book, they only applied in the 7th century not the 21st century? It is vitally important that moderate Moslem leaders … do not let Islamic extremists use these passages to recruit vulnerable, Moslem young people into any Islamic terrorist organization.

The American people do not want to be blown up. Anything that prevents the American people from being blown up is all right with the American people.

Nations unfortunately have to be prepared for security problems that arise from symbolic and irrational behavior…

There is a lot of talk of the growth of radicalization [of Moslems in America]. Yes there has been growth, but between December 11, 2001 and December 31, 2009, we had 46 cases prosecuted… so I would say that the number of extremists are very small. Let’s stay calm.

We are much safer in the United States, but not yet safe.

People don’t get radicalized overnight. It’s a process that takes 3 or 4 years.

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

If you look at the terrorist attacks around the world, they're in places where there is no security - a club or a movie theater or wherever.

ISIL are already using the Internet for hideous propaganda purposes - for radicalisation, for operational planning, too.

What I'm concerned about are two things. I think one that John Miller talked about, and that's the radicalization over the Internet that ISIS is very adept at doing. The other one is a foreign fighter threat.

The poor people of the world tend to be the places that al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups can recruit.

I worry a bit about the unknowns when it comes to travelers to the war zones in Syria and Iraq. Who don't I see? And I worry about the people who may be in their basements radicalizing that I can't see.

Al Qaeda asks its recruits to establish their bona fides as a condition of membership, even requiring answers to a long questionnaire. But ISIS has democratized and globalized jihad by lowering the entry bar to an eve-of-destruction YouTube pledge of allegiance to the caliphate - and even that could probably be waived.