Bennie Thompson Quotes

The government wants to be able to attack extremism and hatred wherever it occurs.

What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.

Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying word.

When Western politicians propose blanket discrimination against Islam, they bolster the terrorists' propaganda.

Being subjected to Islamophobic abuse makes integration less likely and amplifies the views of the extremists rather than the mainstream. It's divisive and dangerous and puts British lives at risk.

I see no difference between a violent Islamist and a far-Right terrorist.

I have watched the spread of violent extremism and jihadism across Europe and the U.K. with dismay, particularly given my history of experiencing threats, abuse, and harassment by Muslim fanatics.

It annoys me right-wing extremism is not equated to Islamic extremism.

History teaches us that, whatever we say, racists will always distort the words of mainstream politicians to make themselves sound more respectable.

At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.

In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.

Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.

Since 9/11, every time there is an incident overseas attributed to Muslims or Arabs, we go on orange alert ourselves …. There are individuals here who are off the wall, who think that every woman who wears a hijab or every man named Muhammad is out to blow things up.

Holy war against lackeys, Jews, Christians and atheists.

The Truth About Islam, Intolerance Slaughter Looting Arson Molestation of Women

There are four Muslim families in San Angelo...and that's four too many …. There is 1.6 billion...Muslims in the world, and they claim that only 10 percent of the Muslims is radical Islamists. That means there is 160 million Muslim terrorists in the world.

All extremists derive from one pool. This extreme mind-set is nurtured by religious rhetoric that needs to be reformed.

Because of the 9/11 attacks, the framing of terrorism by politicians, the media, and the public too often in the past decade and a half has been that it is Islamist political violence that is the terrorism we need to be concerned about.

We have not learned the lessons of 9/11. This wrongful suspicion, racial hatred, and profiling is what I keep seeing.

There is a line in which populism can cross over into demagoguery. Demagoguery is the crossover where populism becomes a bad thing, and people make things up, and they assign responsibilities that aren't fair and justified, and scapegoat communities. And then it becomes a very bad thing.

If you do a Google search, you will probably read a lot of stuff about how I am someone who wants to kill all the Jews and hates the United States.

As it happens, the National Front has never been guilty of racism.

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.

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

We want to go further than preventing people from becoming terrorists and focus on a broader approach to counter-extremism - both violent and non-violent.