United States of Jihad Quotes

“The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think it’s accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant.”
― Peter Bergen, United States of Jihad: Who Are America's Homegrown Terrorists, and How Do We Stop Them?

“Obama would prove to be one of the most militarily aggressive American presidents in decades. He authorized military operations in seven Muslim countries—Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen; mandated a troop surge in Afghanistan; and vastly ramped up the CIA drone program. And he became the first president since the Civil War to authorize the assassination of a U.S. citizen: Anwar al-Awlaki.”
― Peter Bergen, United States of Jihad: Who Are America's Homegrown Terrorists, and How Do We Stop Them?

“Some kind of personal crisis (the loss of a job, the experience of racism, moral outrage caused by the way Muslims were being treated in international conflicts, or the death of a close family member) provided a “cognitive opening” for a turn to Salafi beliefs,”
― Peter Bergen, United States of Jihad: Who Are America's Homegrown Terrorists, and How Do We Stop Them?

“The most deadly jihadist attacks in the United States since 9/11, and the most threatening plots, have been carried out by or instigated by Americans.”
― Peter Bergen, United States of Jihad: Who Are America's Homegrown Terrorists, and How Do We Stop Them?

“Only the government could have made a ‘terrorist’ out of Mr. Cromitie, whose buffoonery is positively Shakespearean in scope….I believe beyond a shadow of a doubt that there would have been no crime here except the government instigated it, planned it and brought it to fruition.” Nonetheless,”
― Peter Bergen, United States of Jihad: Who Are America's Homegrown Terrorists, and How Do We Stop Them?

“Matthew’s case underlines a surprising fact: since 9/11 the FBI has organized more jihadist terrorist plots in the United States than any other organization. Al-Qaeda’s core group in Pakistan has mounted six terrorist plots (of varying degrees of sophistication); al-Qaeda’s branch in Yemen has mounted two; the Pakistani Taliban and al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate have each mounted one. Three other plots were engineered by the NYPD. The FBI has been responsible for thirty.”
― Peter Bergen, United States of Jihad: Who Are America's Homegrown Terrorists, and How Do We Stop Them?

“In fact, the poor are generally too busy making ends meet to be the vanguard of any revolution. History shows that terrorism is a largely bourgeois endeavor, from the Russian anarchists of the late nineteenth century to the German Marxists of the Baader-Meinhof Gang of the 1970s, to the apocalyptic Japanese terror cult Aum Shinrikyo of the 1990s. Islamist terrorists, it turns out, are no different.”
― Peter Bergen, United States of Jihad: Who Are America's Homegrown Terrorists, and How Do We Stop Them?

“It also imposed Taliban-style rule (a draconian implementation of sharia, or Koranic, law that has involved throwing homosexuals to their deaths from tall buildings, lopping off the hands of thieves, beheading women accused of “sorcery,” and enslaving and raping minority women) over some eight million Syrians and Iraqis. Within”
― Peter Bergen, United States of Jihad: Who Are America's Homegrown Terrorists, and How Do We Stop Them?

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― Peter L. Bergen, United States of Jihad: Who Are America's Homegrown Terrorists, and How Do We Stop Them?

“since 9/11 the FBI has instigated more jihadist terrorist “plots” in the States than al-Qaeda or any of its affiliated groups—thirty versus ten. Undercover”
― Peter Bergen, United States of Jihad: Who Are America's Homegrown Terrorists, and How Do We Stop Them?