Abedi appears to be one of the many thousands of Western Muslims who have embraced militant Islam, often as a way of… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Sheikh Rahman had a doctorate in Islamic jurisprudence from al-Azhar University in Cairo, the Harvard of Islamic thought. He also had a… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Islam is, to be sure, a big tent, and the one and a half billion Muslims in the world run the gamut… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Apostasy is a grave crime in Islam and punishable by death in the eyes of members of al Qaeda. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Most Muslims don't want to live in some Taliban-style utopia, which is what bin Laden and allied groups are offering. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
It's hard to imagine any Muslim fessing up to their secret proclivity for Sharia law knowing they would be deported if they… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The less the ISIS 'caliphate' exists as a physical entity, the less the group can claim it is the 'Islamic State' that… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
American jihadists are generally motivated by a mix of factors, including dislike of U.S. foreign policy in the Muslim world. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
European countries simply do not have the ideological framework the United States has in the shape of the 'American dream' that has… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Candidate Trump had previously opined that 'Islam hates us' and had called for 'the total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the two brothers who carried out the marathon bombing, was a non-practicing Muslim who only became an Islamist… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
For Islamist terrorist groups such as ISIS, the holy month of Ramadan - a time of fasting and prayer for the vast… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Think of ISIS as a pathogen that preys on weak hosts in the Muslim world. In fact, there is something of a… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
ISIS may be a perversion of Islam, but Islamic it is, just as Christian beliefs about the sanctity of the unborn child… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Again and again since 9/11, terror attacks in the West have been carried out by second-generation Muslims who are citizens of the… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
In quiet ways far too complex to hold Trump's interest, Muslims in the United States and around the world are helping every… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
So Pakistan is a country that I'm very fond of and have spent a lot of time, but it is a country where conspiracy… — Peter Bergen Copy Share
The Trump administration launched the cruise missile strikes in Syria, an act of war, without a U.N. resolution or Congressional authorization. — Peter Bergen Copy Share
The deep problems that afflict the Middle East are not easy to fix, but they must be dealt with if we are not to… — Peter Bergen Copy Share
The dirty little secret of the intelligence world is that much of what you really need to know isn't exactly a secret anyway. — Peter Bergen Copy Share
Abedi appears to be one of the many thousands of Western Muslims who have embraced militant Islam, often as a way of trying to… — Peter Bergen Copy Share
Trump has claimed he knows more about ISIS than America's leading generals. Clearly, this is also total nonsense; he doesn't seem to have done… — Peter Bergen Copy Share
If you don't understand what al Qaeda was trying to do on 9/11, if you don't have a sense of who Osama bin Laden… — Peter Bergen Copy Share
As early as 1993, members of bin Laden's group had been planning an attack on the American Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. — Peter Bergen Copy Share
The reality is that Trump's focus on immigrants is to misconceive of the terrorist problem that exists in the United States. — Peter Bergen Copy Share
ISIS despises the Russian government for its support of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, and so it's no surprise that ISIS began targeting Russia… — Peter Bergen Copy Share
The Sunni militants that make up ISIS are not the underlying problem in Syria and Iraq, but rather they are a symptom of other… — Peter Bergen Copy Share
Keeping a relatively small, predominantly U.S. Special Forces presence in Afghanistan to continue to train the Afghan army past December 2016 is a wise… — Peter Bergen Copy Share
One of the themes of 'The Longest War,' my book, which came out before the Arab spring happened, was how al-Qaida and bin Laden… — Peter Bergen Copy Share
Because 9/11 was carried out by 19 foreign-born Arab hijackers, many assume that all terrorists who attack the West are foreigners. — Peter Bergen Copy Share
I was the only outsider to visit the Abbottabad compound where bin Laden lived before the Pakistani military demolished it. — Peter Bergen Copy Share
