Malcolm Nance Quotes

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

Few remember that Trump was among the first in the country to recognize the danger of radical Islam.

We're dealing with an enemy now, ISIS, that has a very sophisticated social media program.

The United States did not choose to fight Islamic extremists. These terrorists chose to fight our way of life. They chose to challenge our existence.

We can't be afraid to call the enemy what it is: Radical Islamic terrorism.

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

Come to the so-called caliphate and live the life of some sort of glory ...; and if you can't come, kill somebody where you are; kill somebody in uniform; kill anybody; if you can cut their head off, great; videotape it; do it; do it; do it.... Kill, kill, kill.

The difference between Al Qaeda and ISIS is that instead of beheading their kidnapped victims, they shoot them in the head.

I think it's important to note that after the airstrikes began in Iraq and Syria, ISIS began a very aggressive social media campaign calling for these types of attacks, these lone wolf attacks.

I avoid continuously writing or tweeting about ISIS, as it centres them in the narrative and we end up reacting to them and reacting to the agenda they set.

Now we have a generational threat struggle called Islamist extremism.

Simply put, Guantanamo is one of the best propaganda tools that terrorists have today. Our enemies use it to justify terrorism and recruit others to carry out violent jihad, and our allies continue to criticize it as a violation of the rule of law.

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.

In the radical Islamist jihad world, you're seeing more and more recruits going to ISIS rather than al-Qaida.

Put simply, we are still at war with radical Islamic groups and an ideological movement that can't be ignored nor wished away.

I think ISIS is achieving the objectives that they have set out to achieve. I think that they feel probably very emboldened. They feel pretty good. Their resiliency is extraordinary.

ISIL is saying to a disenfranchised population, 'Come join us. Fight the good fight.' I think we're actually playing into it when they hear Trump's rhetoric. And I think it's dangerous and hurtful as a matter of national policy.

I believe it is actually fomenting the growth of ISIL; Donald Trump could be a recruitment poster for ISIL because he is fanning the flames of hate.

The Islamic State has proven that terrorists can seize and deploy modern military equipment on lesser-armed opponents.

ISIL particularly is very slick, very sophisticated, proselytizing and recruiting, and they are very astute users of social media.

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.

The Department of Justice will continue to pursue those that travel to fight against the United States and our allies, as well as those individuals that recruit others on behalf of ISIL in the homeland.

When mainstream Muslims defeat the Islamic State, that lessens the ability of the Islamic State to recruit and fund-raise.

We cannot be complacent about the determination of radical Islamic extremists to destroy our freedoms.

America must keep jihad out, especially when we know exactly where it is coming from.