Barack Obama Quotes

Social media has allowed groups, such as ISIL, to use the Internet to spot and assess potential recruits. With the widespread horizontal distribution of social media, terrorists can identify vulnerable individuals of all ages in the United States - spot, assess, recruit, and radicalize - either to travel or to conduct a homeland attack.

London. Another terrorist attack and ISIS claimed credit. I am surprised because I thought we had wiped out ISIS on day one as Donald Trump said.

I condemn any form of terrorism and especially the terrorism that would affect my country and me.

Through the Internet, ISIS and other terrorist groups reach people they wouldn't ordinarily be able to reach.

Do you call the people in Los Angeles in the nineties - do you call them rebels or opposition ? They are rebels. They are not rebels even, they are beheading. This opposition, opposing country or government, by beheading ? By barbecuing heads ? By eating the hearts of your victim ? Is that opposition ? What do you call the people who attacked the two towers on the 11th of September ? Opposition ? Even if they're not Americans, I know this, but some of them I think have nationality - I think one of them has American nationality. Do you call him opposition or terrorist ?

ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.

More people are realising that ISIL's not a caliphate. It's a crime ring.

They’re nothing more than domestic terrorists.

Terrorists and their allies believe the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the American Bill of Rights and every charter of liberty ever written are lies to be burned and destroyed and forgotten.

ISIS is a terrorist entity whose barbarities have been condemned by all those who value our common humanity. In the current political climate, when hate crimes are rising and political rhetoric is increasingly divisive, this is all the more shocking.

Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere

How do we deal with not just the acts of violence, but the extremist ideology that lies behind them? Because though the numbers of fanatics that go and join and kill for a group like ISIS are measured in tens of thousands, those that support the wider ideology, I'm afraid, you measure in tens of millions or more.

ISIS is on its way to defeat but terrorism threat persists.

If you join ISIS, if you wage jihad on America, then you are signing your death warrant.

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

ISIL's widespread reach through the Internet and social media is most concerning, as the group has proven dangerously competent at employing such tools for its nefarious strategy. ISIL uses high-quality, traditional media platforms as well as widespread social media campaigns to propagate its extremist ideology.

We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

As far as Zarqawi is concerned, there is a network of extremists; it's not just Zarqawi.

The entire world is the front line for terrorism.

People are becoming more accustomed to terrorism.

Especially dangerous is crime disguised under political and pseudo-religious motives, such as terrorism and the like.

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.

This is the new wave, the new generation of terrorism. It's gone viral. It's very dangerous, and it's very hard to stop.

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

Using vehicles as weapons is a tactic that has often used by Palestinian terrorists to target Israelis, but in 2014, an ISIS spokesman had encouraged such vehicular attacks in the West, saying of ISIS' enemies, 'Run him over with your car.'