Abu Bakar Ba'asyir Quotes

The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.

Islam has been transformed from a religion to an ideology.

I tend not to believe radical Muslim movements.

The Saudis are the primary sponsor of the Sunni version of Islamofascism.

'Islamist terrorism.' The very phrase is contentious. No one wants to make this problem harder by unfairly branding and alienating a quarter of the world's population, and even in this construction, no one should be thinking this means all of Islam or all Muslims.

The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.

Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of war, and most Muslims don't understand the true nature of Islam.

I think there is no reason for us to bring to Islamism or political Islam the fear and ignorance of Western commentators and their hysterical vocabulary.

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.

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

The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.

Just several years ago, Shaykh Kabbani, who is the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, when he was speaking at the State Department, said that more than 80 percent of the mosques were controlled by extremists. And from all I've seen over the last four or five years, the situation has even gotten worse.

What is really happening here is the radicalization of the Moslems throughout the world.

I am not big on the idea that a rapid injection of democracy will reform radical Moslems.

The growth of Islamic Fundamentalism is an earthquake.

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

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

There is a cancer of extremism that infects Islam today.

Islamic fundamentalism is attacking us at home.

When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.

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

The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam.

Islamists are nothing but guided missiles that pride themselves on taking out as many infidels as possible.

The overwhelming majority of Muslims in this country and overseas are peaceful, law-abiding citizens. However, a small number of Muslims are members of fundamentalist sects sworn to the destruction of the United States.

ISIL is not 'radical Islam.' Hamas, Hezbollah, Fatah, the Muslim Brotherhood - these are radical Islamic groups. They resort to armed struggle and terrorism to move toward their goals. But they are also deeply political organizations that have internal rules, standards, and codes of conduct.