Mohsin Hamid Quotes About Terrorists

Quotes about: Terrorists

• It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Obvious Things, Assassins, Imagine

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.' And each time we hear of Pakistan it's in that context.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Friday, Pakistan, Horror

  "Real Life Terror Reflects An Author's Imagination". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. May 14, 2010.

• Well, one thing that has changed is the number of people killed by terrorists in Pakistan. Civilians killed has gone down really quite dramatically. There was a newspaper article here about a month ago that got big headlines which said that civilian deaths from terrorism were down something like 80 percent or 90 percent from their peak of two or three years ago.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Years, Two, Numbers

  "Pakistan Ends Another Year With A Horrifying Attack". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 30, 2015.

• So in many ways, the bombing at the end of this year and the terrorist attack of last year in Peshawar have bookended both those years in a very unfortunate way. But at a bigger picture since, the impression in Pakistan is that things are actually improving on the terrorism front quite dramatically.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Years, Pakistan, Way

  Source: www.npr.org

• I think that things were getting really very bad a couple of years ago, and there's been a very significant change in response to that on the part of the security forces and the government, but particularly the army. And you see Pakistan actually fighting terrorism and terrorists in a much more wholehearted way than had been occurring previously. It's not anywhere close to over yet, but you've seen a big change in the antiterrorism campaign here.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Couple, Fighting, Army

  "Pakistan Ends Another Year With A Horrifying Attack". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 30, 2015.

• When people, particularly young people and especially young men, can't imagine themselves as heroes in narratives that they construct for themselves, they look to be heroes in some other way. So young men in America of, let's say, Muslim background, only a tiny, tiny minority - so small as to be almost zero - are likely to ever commit terrorist acts.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Zero, Hero, Men

  "From Refugees To Politics, Mohsin Hamid Writes The Change He Wants To See". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. March 9, 2018.

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