James Woolsey Quotes

The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.

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.

We have been the victims of Islamic terrorism for 30 years now. You cannot split the terrorism from the origin of it---Islam.

Children are being beheaded, women are being raped, men are being crucified, and Christians are being forced to “convert or die”. This is the essence of radical Islam: the barbarians even kill Muslims, as well as Christians, Jews, and others who are not like them.

Nobody can deny there is a rise of Islamic fundamentalism.

The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.

When Muslims enter a mosque, for example, and blow it up, or go and behead people while reading the Koran --- these people believe their Islam permits this. You talk about the war on terror. The only way we can overcome these terrorists is with ideology. We Muslims must show the Muslim terrorists that their way is wrong. We must draw the line.

It is now abundantly clear the source of Muslim terrorism is situated within the body politic of Islam and its adherents, irrespective of how many times, on the one hand, some Muslim spokespersons try to obscure this reality and, on the other, politicians of whatever stripe for electoral purposes behave as ostriches with their heads in the sand

Despite their claims to be acting in the name of Islam, the groups that instigate suicide bombings have nothing in common with “mainstream Muslims.”

Boko Haram Translation: Western education is sinful

Islamic terrorism is the handiwork of people who’ve heeded, not hijacked, Islam.

Islamist terrorism is a cancer on Islam, and Muslims themselves must fight it at our side.

There is no doubt that terrorists acting under the banner of Islam have declared war on us.

There's a difference between being a fundamentalist and being al-Qaeda and being Muslim. It's absurd to think otherwise.

The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy.

It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.

The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.

Verses of the Koran and of the Prophet are being isolated and used to justify violence.

Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.

Conversion to Islam substantially increases the probability of a person's involvement in terrorism.

The silence of the [Moslem] clerics around the world is frightening to me. How come they haven’t … apologized to the American people? How come they haven’t assured the American people that this is not true Islam and that these people [Moslem terrorists] are not acting in the name of Allah.

Terrorism is a part of mainstream Islam. The Koran preaches violence.

Our fight with Soviet Communism may turn out just to have been a small diversion from the 1500 year struggle that Islamic Fundamentalism has had with the West.

Radical extremists have tried to use Islam as a cause for attacks on America. As I have stated before, they are not true followers of Islam. In my view they are simply terrorists, much like the so-called "Christians" of the white supremacy groups.

If there were an election held in any country of the Muslim world between the existing leaders and Osama bin Laden, bin Laden would win hands down