Islamic State Quotes - Page 2

• It is not true that only those people come to Islamic State who have experienced no success in life. Among them are many people who have university degrees, people who were well-established. But they all see the inequities that we Muslims have long experienced and want to fight against them.

  Abdul Sattar Abu Risha

  Islamic, Fighting, University Degrees

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• This is a core principle of my presidency - if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven.

  Barack Obama

  Safe Haven, America, Principles

  Source: www.today.com

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• We will send an additional 475 service members to Iraq. As I have said before, these American forces will not have a combat mission - we will not get dragged into another ground war in Iraq. But they are needed to support Iraqi and Kurdish forces with training, intelligence and equipment.

  Barack Obama

  War, Safe Haven, Iraq

  President Obama's Speech on Combating ISIS and Terrorism, www.cnn.com. September 10, 2014.

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• The latest developments in Iraq are deeply troubling, but as the United States considers military and diplomatic responses to the actions of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) action, we should be clear that U.S. troops on the ground cannot go a million miles near a sectarian civil war-it's simply not an option.

  Sean Patrick Maloney

  Military, War, Islamic

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• Let's make two things clear: Isil is not "Islamic." No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of Isil's victims have been Muslim. And Isil is certainly not a state.

  Barack Obama

  Islamic, Safe Haven, Two

  "Is It ISIS or ISIL? That Depends On Who You're Asking". "All Things Considered" with Arun Rath, wskgnews.org. September 14, 2014.

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• Isil poses a threat to the people of Iraq and Syria, and the broader Middle East - including American citizens, personnel and facilities. If left unchecked, these terrorists could pose a growing threat beyond that region, including to the United States.

  Barack Obama

  Safe Haven, Iraq, People

  "James Foley on the Dehumanization of War: Acclaimed Filmmaker Haskell Wexler Shares 2012 Interview". www.democracynow.org. September 12, 2014.

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• I have made it clear that we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are. That means I will not hesitate to take action against ISIL in Syria, as well as Iraq. This is a core principle of my presidency: if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Mean, Safe Haven

  "Obama outlines ISIS strategy: Airstrikes in Syria, more U.S. forces". Nationally televised address, edition.cnn.com. September 11, 2014.

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• This is American leadership at its best: We stand with people who fight for their own freedom, and we rally other nations on behalf of our common security and common humanity.

  Barack Obama

  Islamic, Fighting, Safe Haven

  Statement by the President on ISIL, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 10, 2014.

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• It will take time to eradicate a cancer like Isil. And any time we take military action, there are risks involved - especially to the servicemen and women who carry out these missions. But I want the American people to understand how this effort will be different from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It will not involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil.

  Barack Obama

  Cancer, Military, War

  Statement by the President on ISIL, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 10, 2014.

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• This counter-terrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort to take out Isil wherever they exist, using our air power and our support for partner forces on the ground. This strategy of taking out terrorists who threaten us, while supporting partners on the front lines, is one that we have successfully pursued in Yemen and Somalia for years.

  Barack Obama

  Safe Haven, Years, Air

  "Obama Declares War on Syria". Interview with Mike Whitney, www.counterpunch.org. September 12, 2014.

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• [Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left for Muslims lies in their observance of the God-made law.

  Abul A'la Maududi

  Lying, Islamic, Law

  "The Islamic Law & Constitution". Book by Abul A'la Maududi, Islamic Books, p. 74, 1980.

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• It is convenient for Hillary Clinton and Tony Blair to say the rise of the Islamic State has nothing to do with the Iraq War because that takes the culpability off their shoulders. The Islamic State is a product of the Iraq War. It took about a 100 years to build the Iraqi state, and the Americans and the British destroyed it in an afternoon.

  Vijay Prashad

  War, Islamic, Years

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• Now, six months after he sent the military back into combat to take on the terror group calling itself the Islamic State, Mr. Obama has acquiesced and sent a measure to Congress asking it to formally authorize what he has been doing all along. And now that they have gotten what they asked for, few in Congress seem all that enthusiastic about the prospect.

  Peter Baker

  Military, Islamic, Groups

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• We are all descended from cavemen who broke the skulls of their enemies with rocks for fun or profit. But that hardly mitigates the crimes of a man who does the same thing today. I see no problem judging the behavior of the Islamic State and its apologists from the vantage point of the West's high horse, because we've earned the right to sit in that saddle.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Horse, Fun, Islamic

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• Unhappy voters thought the anemic economy, Obamacare, the collapse of U.S. foreign policy, the scandals in government, and the incompetent handling of everything from the Islamic State to Ebola were the only real issues. Democrats'€™ refusal to acknowledge them did not make these failures go away.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Real, Islamic, Government

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• It's time to "stop being ambivalent." ... They (groups like the Islamic State) have no ideology beyond violence and chaos and the slaughter of innocent people.

  Barack Obama

  Islamic, People, Groups

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• Obama has committed the U.S. to war on the Islamic State. To then allow within a month an allied enclave to be overrun - and perhaps annihilated - would be a major blow.

  Charles Krauthammer

  War, Islamic, Blow

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• Did Hillary Clinton short-circuit when she advocated for the overthrow of Muamar Gaddafi and Libya is now an Islamic State stranglehold?

  Rudy Giuliani

  Islamic, Gaddafi, Short Circuit

  "'This Week' Transcript: Rudy Giuliani and Michael Morell". abcnews.go.com. August 7, 2016.

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• We call for, on the other hand - how do you deal with ISIS [Islamic State], of course, is the question that comes up immediately, ISIS and other terrorist groups.

  Jill Stein

  Islamic, Isis, Hands

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• Donald Trump, like most Americans, like most Republicans, believe in protecting America's core national interests. He believes as do I, as do most Americans, that we aren't yet doing enough to take the fight to the Islamic State.That the intervention in Libya was ill-considered and slapdash at the time. And we're living with the consequences of it now. That we have to get tougher when it comes to our intelligence and law enforcement practices to stop Islamic terrorism.

  Tom Cotton

  Islamic, Believe, Fighting

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. July 3, 2016.

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• Our Jewish friends are no more responsible for the actions of Israel or the Netanyahu government than our Muslim friends are for those of various self-styled Islamic states or organisations.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Islamic, Government, Israel

  "Jeremy Corbyn launches antisemitism report amid controversy" by Harriet Sherwood, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2016.

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• In fact all the Islamists, that is the reformists not the Salafis, now they all say that they want a civil state, a civil state with Islamic reference points. They are not talking about an Islamic state, or sharia in the way this was once understood in the fight against the colonisers, or just afterwards in the 70's, 80's and 90's.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Islamic, Fighting, Talking

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• Saying that the origin of the Islamic State (IS) is within the Muslim Brotherhood organisation only strengthens IS.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Islamic, Brotherhood, States

  Source: www.middleeasteye.net

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• The fact that this organisation is called the Islamic State reveals something even deeper. In fact, it implies that every single Islamist party in Egypt, Iraq or Tunisia are not really representing Islam and Muslim people. Nowadays, political Islam is going through a crisis, however this crisis is necessary, for it will lead to a changing way of thinking. In order to make it out of this dead-end, reviewing political Islam becomes mandatory.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Islamic, Party, Thinking

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• IS [Islamic State] has played a major role in helping Bashar al-Assad to reposition Syria on the international scene. Now, it is almost impossible to come up with a solution that would exclude him. The political game appears to be very cynical indeed.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Islamic, Games, Political

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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