Asma Jahangir Quotes

The terrorists hide behind Allah.

True terrorism, you know, weaponized fear. In defense of ourselves, we're fighting - actively fighting something else. But if you're going to fight terrorism, to me, you fight the root causes of terrorism.

We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.

The fight against terrorism is not a confrontation against any religion.

Terrorism is perpetrated by individuals and cannot be blamed on any one religion, be it Sikhism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, or Christianity.

Terrorism and the fight against extremism is our fight.

The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.

I believe terrorism cannot be won over by military action. Terrorism must be condemned in the strongest language. We must stand solidly against it, and find all the means to end it. We must address the root causes of terrorism to end it for all time to come.

In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.

Afghanistan must never again be a safe haven for terrorism.

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

This is a war against terrorists. Not a war against a religion, but a war against terrorists.

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

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.

We can't be politically correct - right or left - in the war on terrorism. Period.

Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.

To win the war on terror, we must know who our friends are and where our enemies are hiding. We can't continue fighting terrorism using the same foreign policy blueprints that were in place before September 11th.

Terrorism seems to be the ugly twin of democracy. We need to learn to live with it because we are vulnerable to it.

I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.

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

Terrorism has no nationality or religion.

Mr. Speaker, I agree with those who say that the Global War on Terrorism is actually a Global War of Ideas and that terrorism is one of the tactics used in that War.

If you are a Christian, you are in danger. Even if you are an atheist, you are in danger, and if you decide to convert to Islam, this will not save you, either, because traditional Islam is inimical to the conditions and objectives set by them [the terrorists]. If you are prepared to become a most radical Islamist and are prepared to circumcise yourself, I invite you to come to Moscow. I will recommend having the operation done in such a way that nothing will grow for you there anymore.

The only way to fight terrorism is to fight it, not to reward it…. When terror receives one victory, terror seeks other victories.

It is not about a war against a country, or a war against a religion but rather about the struggle against terrorist violence. As such I do not exclude the use of repressive police and military measures.