Mosab Hassan Yousef Quotes

Those prepared to die for the truth, as a rule make many others die with them, often before them, and at times instead of them.

Hamas is responsible for countless homicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Israeli citizens. They have waged a terror war with the sole intent of murdering innocent people.

Senseless violence is, almost by definition, hard to understand. Not that I can understand terrorists who kill from hate, but at least we can identify a reason - a terrifying one, to be sure, grounded in a violent belief system - for what they do. Two gangs go to war. Extremists kill in the name of belief.

Let there be no mistake, Hamas is a ruthless terrorist organization.

Hamas is a murderous gang of terrorists.

Extremism and terrorism are based on lack of hope and an ideology that takes advantage of that.

We need to view ISIS as an enemy.

History proves that those who seed extremist ideologies reap a bitter harvest.

A fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause.

Fanaticism is the greatest threat today. Literally, the 21st century threatened by fanatics, and we have fanatics in every religion, unfortunately, and what can we do against them? Words nothing else, I'm against violence but only words.

In short, ISIS is composed of religiously motivated psychopaths.

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.

Well, you got to remember, bin Laden killed 3,000 Americans and, in some ways, he and his ideology killed tens of thousands of his fellow Muslims, including Pakistanis. I understand that that was provocative and complicated for Pakistan, but only if you accept the idea that he was an acceptable member of Pakistani society.

I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

If I were a Palestinian of the right age, I'd eventually join one of the terrorist organizations.

I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.

Jihad will continue even if I am not around.

Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.

One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

We must find out where the roots of terrorism lie.

We are battling fanatics who kidnap and behead civilians and shoot fleeing children in the back. There can be no dialogue with such people, and the American people understand this.

You can't think about terrorism without thinking about Palestinian terrorism. Palestinians began international terrorism. It started with them in 1968. They used it as the first resort, not the last resort. They invented it, they perfected it, they benefited from it and they taught the world how to use it and that it would be successful.