American Quote by George Packer

Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.

— Marvin Olasky

American jihadists are generally motivated by a mix of factors, including dislike of U.S. foreign policy in the Muslim world.

— Peter Bergen

For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September 11th, 2001.

— Zach Wamp

Many Muslims consider the United States hostile to Islam and to Arab interests. In fact, the United States saved tens of thousands of Muslims…

— Antony Blinken

The most extreme individuals and factions in Islamic countries are now more motivated than ever to kill Americans, and the number of potential terrorists…

— John Olver

An aggravating feature of this post-9/11 atmosphere is to cast suspicions on Muslims and on Islam as a religion that is interpreted as either…

— Richard A. Falk

Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the number of violent extremist groups has grown across multiple continents. From Syria to Somalia to Pakistan, the…

— Patrick Leahy

America is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization.

— Newt Gingrich

They [root causes of terror] come out of a long dialectic of U.S. involvement in the affairs of the Islamic world, the oil-producing world,…

— Edward Said

The United States did not choose to fight Islamic extremists. These terrorists chose to fight our way of life. They chose to challenge our…

— John Boehner

America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists.

— Barack Obama

The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.

— Pierre Salinger