Driven Quote by Robert Pape

The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion.

— Robert Pape

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

— Christopher Hitchens

What nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces…

— Robert Pape

My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but that religion is the principal label, and…

— Richard Dawkins

Suicide attacks are the actions of losers who have nothing left to lose. In this case, Islam serves as a mask, a cover for…

— Walter Kasper

(God) gives the weak a weapon for self-defense that the strong, despite his military and nuclear arsenals, can do nothing against. There are clerics…

— Yusuf al-Qaradawi

It goes without saying that any religion that justifies terrorism or war has undermined the spiritual basis for its own existence.

— Senora Roy

“Terrorism is born of fundamentalism not of religion.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Suicide terrorist groups are [not] religious cults isolated from the rest of their society, ... Rather, suicide terrorist organizations often command broad social support…

— Robert Pape

It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.

— Thomas Keating

“Terrorism is not an ideology of any religion; it is a business policy of weapon-selling countries like America,israel and france.”

— Mohammed Zaki Ansari

Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia,…

— James Buchan