Alexander Haig Quotes

The suicide bomber who blows up Israeli children cannot transform himself into a martyr. The Palestinian problem is not an Islamic problem.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.

Terrorists convince thousands of people to kill themselves in the name of God. I can't convince two of my friends to help me move.

The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.

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

The Fiqh Council of North America wishes to reaffirm Islam's absolute condemnation of terrorism and religious extremism. Islam strictly condemns religious extremism and the use of violence against innocent lives. There is no justification in Islam for extremism or terrorism. Targeting civilians’ life and property through suicide bombings or any other method of attack is haram – or forbidden -- and those who commit these barbaric acts are criminals, not martyrs.

I can in one week assemble five hundred faithful ready to throw themselves into suicide operations. No frontier will stop them.

Terrorism and religious extremism are huge challenges. They go hand in glove.

In every religion, you find the same extremists.

You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.

Let's make two things clear: Isil is not "Islamic." No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of Isil's victims have been Muslim. And Isil is certainly not a state.

Islamic terrorists are new examples of an old problem with fascism.

Our enemies send other people's children on missions of suicide and murder. They embrace tyranny and death as a cause and a creed. We stand for a different choice - made long ago, on the day of our founding. We affirm it again today. We choose freedom and the dignity of every life.

There's nothing heroic about suicide bombers. They're mostly just dumb, brainwashed kids, stoned out of their minds.

I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.

The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.

We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new.

Jewish extremism and Islamic fanaticism fed each other.

I condemn suicide bombings; it’s not acceptable as a Muslim to kill innocent people. It’s explainable. But explainable doesn’t mean justifiable.

In our [Arab] countries, religion is the sole source of education, and is the only spring from which that terrorist drank until his thirst was quenched. He was not born a terrorist, and did not become a terrorist overnight. Islamic teachings played a role in weaving his ideological fabric, thread by thread, and did not allow other sources – I am referring to scientific sources – to play a role. It was these teachings that distorted this terrorist and killed his humanity

A suicide bomber is a two-legged missile. Once it’s launched, it’s very difficult to intercept.

Terrorists have hijacked our religion.

Why are the Muslim religious leaders silent on the killing of innocent people in the name of religion?

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