Daniel Pipes

“The study of the Middle East has been politicized to an extraordinary degree.”

“Islamism is a totalitarian ideology that seeks to impose its version of Islam on society.”

“I am a historian by training. My work is based on evidence.”

“To win a war, you have to break the enemy's will to fight.”

“The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is not a conflict over territory but a conflict over Israel's existence.”

“The West must learn to distinguish between its friends and its enemies.”

“Victory is a difficult concept for Americans, who are used to compromise.”

“Political correctness is a form of intellectual cowardice.”

“History provides the data for understanding the present and anticipating the future.”

“Western elites are often in denial about the nature of the threat we face.”

“Israel is not the cause of the problems in the Middle East; it is a victim of them.”

“The problem is not with Islam, but with Islamism.”

“I distinguish between Islam, the faith of a billion people, and the political ideology of Islamism.”

“Multiculturalism is a threat to Western civilization.”

“Appeasement only encourages the aggressor.”

“Peace comes through strength, not through weakness.”

“Conspiracy theories are a form of political paranoia.”

“The goal of the Islamists is to create a global caliphate.”

“There is no 'cycle of violence' in the Middle East. There is aggression and there is self-defense.”

“The solution to Islamic extremism is moderate Islam.”