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The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.

The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.

Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed and - and this is the key bit of the argument - which then legitimizes violence in their supposed defense.

This radical Islam is a religious-based ideology. And you actually have to, when you deal with the ideology, you have to attack it on that basis.

There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them.

One of the problems we're facing is, in my view, that there are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies.

The Palestinian national movement is not an Islamic religious movement.

Put simply, we are still at war with radical Islamic groups and an ideological movement that can't be ignored nor wished away.

They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.

Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.