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“Fear does not incline people to be moderate in their use of extreme tactics.”
“Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the”
“The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real, decent religion. Voltaire got it right long ag...”
“Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."]”
“What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?”
“The queer thing is that we do trust you," said Bodisham. "In spite of your -- extremism.""You'd better," said Rud with grim conviction. "I'm right. What is extremism? The whole truth and nothing bu...”
“How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene.'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come ...”
“Gradually, I realized that the ideas I had embraced and defended blindly all my life represented a singular, and highly radical, point of view. I began to question everything.”
“Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying ”
“The Islamic States ideology exerts powerful sway over a certain subset of the population. Lifes hypocrisies and inconsistencies vanish in its face. Musa Cerantonio and the Salafis I met in London a...”
“It would be facile, even exculpatory, to call the problem of the Islamic State 'a problem with Islam.' The religion allows many interpretations, and Islamic State supporters are morally on the hook...”
“Centuries have passed since the wars of religion ceased in Europe, and since men stopped dying in large numbers because of arcane theological disputes. Hence, perhaps, the incredulity and denial wi...”
“There can be no religious discourse which is in conflict with its environment and with the world and therefore, we Muslims need to modify this religious discourse. And this has nothing to do with c...”
“The truth, however, is that most Muslims appear to be "fundamental-ist" in the Western sense of the wordin that even "moderate"approaches to Islam generally consider the Koran to be the literal and...”
“But what is it that drives haters crazy with rage? Many times, it's being ignored. To a person with pride, being ignored is often worse than out-and-out hate; it's that much more of an insult, that...”
“They hate us because we don't even know why they hate us.”
“I fear for the world the Internet is creating. Before the advent of the web, if you wanted to sustain a belief in far-fetched ideas, you had to go out into the desert, or live on a compound in the ...”
“No one can pretend that because a people may be oppressed, every individual member is virtuous and worthy.”
“But, he thought, what does it mean, insane? A legal definition. What do I mean? I feel it, see it, but what is it?He thought, It is something they do, something they are. It is their unconsciousnes...”
“If I were a Palestinian at the right age, I would have joined one of the terrorist organizations at a certain stage.”
