Islamic State Quotes

• So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Determination, Book, Islamic

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• All talk on Islamic States is just an empty dream. No man in his right sense would accept a nation which bases its political administration on religion, and in a country like Malaysia with its multiracial and multireligious people, there is no room for an Islamic State.

  Tunku Abdul Rahman

  Dream, Country, Islamic

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• If we want to defeat Islamic State, we first have to arrive at a cease-fire agreement in Syria. Once that has been achieved, an anti-IS coalition can be assembled, including Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iran. That, however, will be significantly more difficult in the wake of Turkey's downing of the Russian plane.

  Martin Schulz

  Islamic, Fire, Russia

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Some French politicians have said that the European Union should drop sanctions against Russia so everybody can join together in this fight against the Islamic State. But we're hearing from French officials that [Francois] Hollande hasn't changed his stance. He's - he's still saying that sanctions shouldn't be lifted until the Minsk agreement has been implemented.

  Corey Flintoff

  Islamic, Fighting, Russia

  Source: www.npr.org

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• So I think if we want to turn the table around, more than thinking about how can we starve the Islamic State in terms of money, we should think about how can we maximise the amount of resources that we have in order to secure ourselves. For us, instead of bombing so much, which is extremely expensive, perhaps, you know, we should use some of that money in order to protect ourselves.

  Loretta Napoleoni

  Islamic, Thinking, Order

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• It is not possible to starve an organised terrorist group because it is number one a state, so it levies taxation inside the territory that is controlled by Islamic State. But also the activity, for example the smuggling of oil, is taking place in an area which is a war zone. So of course people will buy that oil because they don't have any alternative. So even if we wanted to stop that kind of trade, it will be very, very difficult to do that.

  Loretta Napoleoni

  War, Islamic, Oil

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• 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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• Our allies in the Middle East know that the Islamic State is their fight - and they have asked for very specific things to help push back against ISIL.We must give our allies the help they need to confront and defeat this evil.

  Carly Fiorina

  Islamic, Fighting, Evil

  "Carly Fiorina, the other woman". Interview with Glenn Harlan Reynolds, www.usatoday.com. July 19, 2015.

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• Since Khomeini's death, the popular appeal of an Islamic state - and of fundamentalism - has surely dimmed. Thinkers still debate and warriors kill, but no country seems prepared to emulate Iran. Perhaps revolutions happen only under majestic leaders, and no one like Khomeini has since appeared.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Country, Islamic, Warrior

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• Islamic state means a state based on justice and democracy and structured upon Islamic rules and laws.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Islamic, Mean, Law

  "Imam's Sahife", Volume 5 (p. 133), December 17, 1978.

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• When I first raised the issue of the so-called Islamic State at the Munich Security Conference in February, speaking about its economy, its flexibility and pathology, people thought I was trying to scare them. But now we have experienced just that. If al-Qaida was version 2.0 of terror, then the Islamic State is version 5.0.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Islamic, Issues, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• What is common among all of these groups [Taliban, Islamic State etc.] is the intent to destroy. The majority of terrorists who come to Afghanistan are from China, Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan or North Africa. They were expelled from their countries and pushed to ours - this is their battlefield - and all of them, be it the Taliban or others, are interlinked with the criminal economy.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Country, Islamic, Uzbekistan

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Mr. Obama needs to make a phone call to Ankara and have a serious conversation about why the current government in Turkey isn't going to seal its border, why it doesn't take a stronger position against the Islamic State.

  Vijay Prashad

  Islamic, Phones, Government

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Turkey is using the Islamic State in the same way as Pakistan used the Taliban in Afghanistan. You know, that's perhaps Turkey's strategy.

  Vijay Prashad

  Islamic, Turkeys, Pakistan

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The United States is facing serious pushback from Turkey, which is not comfortable with the view that the Islamic State is a terrorist organization.

  Vijay Prashad

  Islamic, Views, Turkeys

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The Islamic State is able to raise finances through taxation, through theft of banks, and certainly through oil sales from the Omar oilfields in eastern Syria. So right now the question of funding isn't of the essence.

  Vijay Prashad

  Islamic, Essence, Oil

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think a far more important strategic way to deal with the Islamic State would be to bring some of these regional partners and explain to them that Turkey's own contradictory foreign policy has to end. I mean, if United States is serious, it has leverage over Turkey. And apparently it has not been able to move Turkey sufficiently.

  Vijay Prashad

  Moving, Islamic, Mean

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Pakistan should be a moderate Islamic state. That it should be a prosperous country is in India's interests, and it is in the world's interests.

  Manmohan Singh

  Country, Islamic, India

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• Islamic State is mainly a direct result of the failure in Syria. That's where IS has grown. That's where IS spread from.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Islamic, States, Results

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Jews have a powerful ally, America, but they do not really have a bigger family in the same way that there is a European family or an Arab-Muslim family. People who fail to understand this ambivalence will never understand this country. They will not be able to understand how Netanyahu could win the last election by saying the Iranians are coming, Islamic State (IS) is coming, the Arabs are coming, and the whole world hates us anyway.

  Amos Oz

  Country, Powerful, Hate

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There are hundreds and hundreds of followers of Islamic State around Europe and the U.S. The Saudis are showing this. And all you have to do is look at the conversation inside of our mosques and inside of our communities.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Islamic, Europe, Community

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The Islamic State is dangerous, a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic is even more so.

  Tom Cotton

  Islamic, Nuclear, Republic

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Muslims consider the honor of the Prophet Muhammad to be dearer to them than that of their parents or even themselves. To defend it is considered to be an obligation upon them. The strict punishment if found guilty of this crime under sharia, the Islamic law, is capital punishment implementable by an Islamic State. This is because the Messenger Muhammad said, ‘Whoever insults a Prophet, kill him.’

  Anjem Choudary

  Islamic, Punishment, Law

  "Anjem Choudary says woman who organised Muhammed cartoon contest should face death penalty under Sharia Law" by Christopher Bucktin, www.mirror.co.uk. May 7, 2015.

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• We are confident that through discussing with Arab and Islamic states, as well as with the League of Arab States, we will be able to reach a common vision towards maintaining the constants of our people and deal with reality.

  Khaled Mashal

  Islamic, Reality, Common Vision

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• On Tuesday, the so-called Islamic State released a slickly produced video showing a Jordanian pilot being burned alive in a steel cage. On Wednesday, the United Nations issued a report detailing various 'mass executions of boys, as well as reports of beheadings, crucifixions of children, and burying children alive' at the hands of the Islamic State.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Children, Islamic, Boys

  "Obama's Comparison of Christianity to Radical Islam Defies Logic" by Jonah Goldberg, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 6, 2015.

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