Lois Frankel Quotes

Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.'

Are we fighting too many wars? And I would say no. We're fighting one war. And it's a war against radical Islamic Jihad.

We are in a conflict, whether we like it or not. I think we have to identify the enemy and call it by its name. And the enemy is an ideology rooted in militant Islam.

9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us.

We can't be afraid to call the enemy what it is: Radical Islamic terrorism.

The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.

The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.

The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.

We have to target the place of the enemy, not countries where many Muslims live. according to bin Laden, if Muslims come across Americans, they have to attack them. Osama believes in total war. This concept I don’t agree with. If this occurs in an Islamic country, the fitnah [discord] will be felt by Muslims. But to attack them in their country [America] is fine

Islam is not the enemy, religious extremism is.

Islamic terrorism is the handiwork of people who’ve heeded, not hijacked, Islam.

The West needs leaders with the courage and the will to fight the scourge of radical Islam.

Radical Islam, it has grown into a global jihad.

Put simply, we are still at war with radical Islamic groups and an ideological movement that can't be ignored nor wished away.

We need to recognize the reality of the threat from radical Islam: that it will be an enduring conflict, that there are no easy decisions, and that mistakes have and will be made.

We cannot be complacent about the determination of radical Islamic extremists to destroy our freedoms.

Political Islam's parallel societies and radicalizing tendencies have no place in our country.

The war against Islamic extremism will be long. They are in it for the long haul, which means that we have to be also.

Islamic extremism is the prime enemy of civil society and social peace, both in Italy and in Israel.

After the horrific massacre Wednesday at the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, perhaps the West will finally put away its legion of useless tropes trying to deny the relationship between violence and radical Islam.

ISIS is very similar to the Kharijites, who were a toxic off-shoot of Islam. It's not Islam; it's a perversion of Islam, and to label these militant externalities as Islam is to legitimize their actions.

We have an even worse situation in Syria, where the United States' allies are actually supporting people who are violently opposed to the United States, who are dangerous, radical Islamist fanatics. I mean, where is the logic of that? When are we going to call the Saudis on the support of intolerant, bigoted, fanatical types of Islam? When are we going to call this ally?

We need to aggressively take on radical Islamic terrorism but not at the expense of our American values.

You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.

I think, broadly speaking, the US military's role - US military activism in various parts of the Islamic world over the past several decades has been counterproductive.