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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

The war against terrorism is terrorism.

I think one of the great dangers here is going and categorizing anybody from one religion as a terrorist. That's not true... That would let the terrorists win. That's what they want us to do.

Islamist terrorism has declared war against us, against France, Europe, the entire world.

We are not at war against Islam.

I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.

The war against terrorism is one we must win.

Well, today, we are in the struggle brought on to us by the terrorists of Islam. It is a war that we did not choose. It was a war that was declared against us as Americans, against our people, against our Constitution.

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

Islamist terrorism is a cancer on Islam, and Muslims themselves must fight it at our side.