De-Radicalization Quotes

When it is not possible to reason with holy warriors, it is necessary to immobilize them or crush them.

We have an unfinished worldwide war against Al Qaida, a war that has to be won in conjunction with friends and allies and that ultimately will be won as much by persuasion as by the use of force. We've got to turn off the Al Qaida recruiting machine.

I think these Al-Qaida terrorists need to be forcibly converted to Christianity ... It's the only thing that can probably turn them into human beings

You can’t negotiate with them. You can’t buy them off. They want a change of the world. The only way to defeat the Islamic Fundamentalist terrorists is to persuade them to abandon their effort…. It must be an intellectual victory.

The goal of isolating extremists and making them unwelcome in Muslim communities has been abandoned.

Imagine if somebody were to really sit down with Osama bin Ladin and say, 'Listen man, what is it that you're so angry at me about that you're willing to have people strap bombs to themselves, or get inside of airplanes and fly them into buildings?' That would be the miracle if we can get, sit down and talk to our enemies and find a way for them to hear us.

How can you prevent an attack by returning foreign fighters if you are not cognizant of their names and links to ISIS?

Simply killing everyone who is already a terrorist today won't solve the problem.

I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.

We want to go further than preventing people from becoming terrorists and focus on a broader approach to counter-extremism - both violent and non-violent.

America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.

Of course, Islamist terrorists must be captured or killed and their networks disrupted. But to stop their movement’s growth, their ideology must also be undermined.

To fight extremism, we will need to pursue a two-pronged strategy: both 'hard,' through stricter control of our borders and a more robust and technologically advanced security response, and 'soft,' based on better intelligence-gathering, working to return our mosques to their spiritual function and barring entry to foreign preachers.

We need a clear plan to put radical Islamic terrorism out of vogue, and it should be eliminated at its roots. American SOF are part of the puzzle, but they do not, by themselves, complete the picture.

These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.

With awareness and a social movement against extremism, we can prevent our children from becoming terrorists.

Even for defeating extremists, you need more than a military strategy.

I actually don't think we should ban Jihadi videos because I don't think that is what causes the issue of Islamist violence. We have to confront these things beyond banning them.

We think there should be a better countering-violent-extremism effort, that there should be a lead agency tasked to handle that.