Islamic Fundamentalism Quotes:

Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism

- Jurgen Habermas

topic: Religious, Islamic, Political, Islamic Fundamentalism, Motifs

Both Hindu, as well as Islamic fundamentalism, feed on the poverty of the masses.

- Michel Chossudovsky

source: "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order". Book by Michel Chossudovsky, 2003.

topic: Islamic, Poverty, Mass, Islamic Fundamentalism

Everyone has the right to practice their religion, to worship as they choose. My war is against Islamic fundamentalism.

- Marine Le Pen

source: Source: www.cbsnews.com

topic: War, Islamic, Practice, Islamic Fundamentalism

The rise of what's called Islamic fundamentalism is to a significant extent a result of the collapse of secular nationalist alternatives which were either discredited internally or destroyed, leaving few other options. Something like that may be true of American society.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: chomsky.info

topic: Islamic, Leaving, Alternatives, Islamic Fundamentalism

I wouldn't give up on Russia. I think they have legitimate security concerns from Islamic fundamentalism, not only on their border but in their country.

- John Bolton

source: Source: humanevents.com

topic: Country, Giving Up, Islamic, Islamic Fundamentalism

Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism.

- Jacob T. Schwartz

topic: Islamic, Cocktails, Radical, Islamic Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism

Critics of the war plans (including myself) have pointed to the disastrous political results that must be expected: Iraq would break into three parts (Kurds in the north, Sunnis in the center, Shi'ites in the south), the Middle East would be exposed to the onslaught of Iranian fanaticism, pro-Western Arab regimes would collapse. Israel would be surrounded by aggressive Islamic fundamentalism, like the Crusader kingdom with the advent of Saladin.

- Uri Avnery

source: "War Now!" by Uri Avnery, September 9, 2002.

topic: War, Islamic, Israel, Iranian, Kurds

Nobody can deny there is a rise of Islamic fundamentalism.

- Dominique de Villepin

topic: Islamic, Deny, Islamic Fundamentalism

It is my responsibility to make sure that the fear is overcome… “This attack must instead free our speech about Islamic fundamentalism. We must not be silenced.

- Marine Le Pen

topic: Islamic, Responsibility, Overcoming, Islamic Fundamentalism

Military intervention to maintain the global status quo will become a constant feature of international relations, whether this is justified in terms of fighting drugs, fighting terrorism, containing 'rogue states', opposing 'Islamic fundamentalism', or containing China.

- Walden Bello

topic: Military, Islamic, Fighting, Military Intervention, Islamic Fundamentalism

Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilisation whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power.

- Samuel P. Huntington

source: "American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear". Book by Khaled A. Beydoun, April 3, 2018.

topic: Islamic, People, Different, Islamic Fundamentalism, Clash Of Civilizations

The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq.

- Bill Richardson

topic: Islamic, Talking, Iraq, Sparking, Invading

Enemies are somewhere else, as the fighting is almost always “over there,” with Islamic fundamentalism now replacing Russian and Chinese communism as the implacable, furtive menace. And “terrorist” is a more flexible word than “communist.” It can unify a larger number of quite different struggles and interests. What this may mean is that the war will be endless---since there will always be some terrorism.

- Susan Sontag

source: Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.200, Macmillan

topic: War, Struggle, Islamic, Islamic Fundamentalism