Driven Quote by Robert Pape

The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear strategic objective.

— Robert Pape

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

— Christopher Hitchens

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

“Terrorism is born of fundamentalism not of religion.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Killing people in the name of religion does not make it religious.”

— Youssef Ziedan

It is not difficult to find a religious justification for killing.

— Karen Armstrong

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

— Senora Roy

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

— Thomas Keating

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

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

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

No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.

— Barack Obama