28 Quotes by Daniel Pipes

You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.

In the long term, the United States could greatly benefit Islam by uniquely freeing the religion from government constraints and permitting it to evolve in a positive, modern direction. But that's the long term.

I have a symbiotic relationship with my opponents -- their coming out against me arouses curiosity in what I have to say,

My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns. If you want to understand Muslims, I argued, you need to understand the role of Islam in their lives. Now that seems obvious.

Treason as a concept is defunct in the West. To succeed in war, governments need take this change into account.

All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most.

To me, every fundamentalist Muslim, no matter how peaceable in his own behavior, is part of a murderous movement and is thus, in some fashion, a foot soldier in the war that bin Laden has launched against civilization.

Israelis must be encouraged to defeat the Palestinians.

There is no problem with Islam itself or with the Muslims, but these are difficult times, and the difficulty stems from radical Islam.