Robert Pape quotes
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“You could not have done it better than Hughes.”
-- Robert PapeSource : "Bin Laden's little helper" by Sidney Blumenthal, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2005.
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“What nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from territory that the terrorists consider to be their homeland.”
-- Robert PapeSource : Robert Pape (2005). “Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism”, p.4, Random House
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“The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion.”
-- Robert PapeSource : "The Logic of Suicide Terrorism". Interview with Scott McConnell, www.globalpolicy.org. July 18, 2005.
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“Suicide terrorist groups are [not] religious cults isolated from the rest of their society, ... Rather, suicide terrorist organizations often command broad social support within the national communities from which they recruit, because they are seen as pursuing legitimate nationalist goals, especially liberation from foreign occupation.”
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“What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.”
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Source : "Aasif Mandvi talks about acting, comedy and Middle Eastern Corresponding". IFC Interview, www.ifc.com. November 02, 2011.
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“I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.”
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Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.249, Simon and Schuster
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