Good people in the West have often failed to distinguish between Islam and Islamism. — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
Where radical Islamism is going to be a factor, it's going to be very, very tough. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I believe in Christianity, Judaism and Islamism, but I stay away from churches, synagogues and mosques. — Ted Lange Copy Share Image
Muslim societies must leave behind these dual aspects: secularism/Islamism. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism. — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
“You must remember, the so-called Jihadis who are in reality, mentally unstable individuals run by Quranic fundamentalists, do not represent the whole… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The only way we can challenge Islamism is to engage with one another. We need to make it as abhorrent as racism… — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
“regime had handled the military threat successfully.41 But the rise of Islamism as a social force was a different story.” — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
“Extremism manifests itself in different shapes and colors. 'The Absolute Truth' and 'the Only Way' beliefs are among them.” — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
“Nothing—not even the US Army—more threatens the future of a democratic, pluralistic and (dare we wish, secular) Iraq than the political ascendancy… — Marc Cooper Copy Share Image
Within our lifetime, we can remember a time when Islamism wasn't the dominant form of discourse or the aim should be to… — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
“Walking on the difficult and dangerous path which everything been destroyed is very hard if there is not the help from God.” — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically. — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
Political correctness is a poison to our security and defenses. It imposes a willful blindness, both at the macro level when unwilling… — Pete Hegseth Copy Share Image
What I see now is that even with the Islamists, who have been portraying themselves as the alternative to corruption and dictatorship… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Things need to be properly named. Political confusion starts with terminology confusion. Islamism implies some sort of political and social plan for… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Islamism implies some sort of political and social plan for Muslim people. In that classification, we find different categories. Legalist ones, traditional… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“Islamo-Fascism is NOT the result of economic deprivation or legitimate blowback because of Western foreign policies or even heinous drone attacks on… — Gary F. Patton Copy Share Image
“The simplistic nature of Islamism means that it thrives on victim narratives and clearly identifiable enemies. When there is no such simple,… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
I draw a distinction between traditional Islam and Islamism. Islamism emerged in its modern form in the 1920s and is driven by… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
“fact is that moderate Islamism is a myth. There are, to be sure, more than a billion moderate Muslims—people who pray five… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“The greatest evils since World War II have been Communism and, since the demise of Communism in the Soviet Union and most… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“We don't have the luxury to say that, there is no hope for reform in Islam, because by saying this, we would… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Now is as good a time as ever to revisit the history of the Crusades, or the sorry history of partition in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The transmogrification of Islam into Islamism is bad news not only for the West but also for the majority of Muslims who… — Robert R. Reilly Copy Share Image
“In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big pictures and grand narratives, its hard-nosed disenchantment with… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“As Islamic liberalism waned, and resistance arose against the West and its influence, that very resistance started to replace genuine religiosity as… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
Things need to be properly named. Political confusion starts with terminology confusion. Islamism implies some sort of political and social plan for… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“[T]he very multiculturalism and multiethnicity that brought Salman to the West, and that also made us richer by Hanif Kureishi, Nadeem Aslam,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Islam is a close union of the spiritual and the temporal; it is the reign of a dogma, it is the heaviest… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“It was sometimes feebly argued, as the political and military war against this enemy ran into difficulties, that it was 'a war… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradictions of a moment, and to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“A common error of western commentators who seek to interpret Islamism sympathetically is to view it as a form of localised resistance… — John Gray Copy Share Image
“As to the 'Left' I'll say briefly why this was the finish for me. Here is American society, attacked under open skies… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Remaining for a moment with the question of legality and illegality: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1368, unanimously passed, explicitly recognized the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“In this sense, Islamism in Turkey was at least partly an unintended consequence of Kemalism. The latter’s zeal against Ottoman tradition impoverished… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
“Whether most Muslims are peaceable is irrelevant. The fact is that fanatics rule Islam now & act-out what the Qur'an truly says… — Gary F. Patton Copy Share Image