#extremist

This is actually true of the overall fight against al-Qaeda and trans-national extremists, that as you put pressure on them in one location, they'll seek safe haven sanctuaries in other areas. So you do have to continue to pursue them. But they have less capability. ↗

— David Petraeus

#against #al-qaeda #areas #capability #continue

We're here so that Afghanistan does not once again become a sanctuary for transnational extremists the way it was when al-Qaeda planned the 9/11 attacks in the Kandahar area, conducted the initial training for the attackers in training camps in Afghanistan before they moved on to Germany and then to U.S. flight schools. ↗

— David Petraeus

#again #al-qaeda #area #attackers #attacks

But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#any #everyone #extremist #get #i

I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate. ↗

— Leon Jaworski

#extremist #i #incompetent #moderate #rather

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#dire #dire need #extremists #kind #nation

I mean, I really don't want the federal government to be determining whether or not a person who feels certain ways about the environment or about animals or about certain religious issues should be considered an extremist. That to me is a type of thought control, mind control, which is very dangerous. ↗

— Peter King

#certain #certain ways #considered #control #dangerous

But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans. ↗

— Peter King

#extremist #leadership #loyal #majority #mosques

Just several years ago, Shaykh Kabbani, who is the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, when he was speaking at the State Department, said that more than 80 percent of the mosques were controlled by extremists. And from all I've seen over the last four or five years, the situation has even gotten worse. ↗

— Peter King

#america #controlled #council #department #even

Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#elements #extremists #out #sacred #scriptures

A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#experienced #extremists #fertile #germans #naturally