If you trace the history of Islamist terrorism, you see that its founders were great admirers of European fascism. They read the texts of European fascism, they quoted them in speeches and letters. This is not from the Koran - the Koran doesn't teach you how to repress people; there's nothing in there about women having to cover their faces, there's certainly nothing about suicide bombing.
Bernard-Henri LevyThe conservatives want to revolutionize the world all at once. And that's a dangerous proposal.
Bernard-Henri LevyI would hope that Europe always has a privileged relationship with the United States. The alternatives are not attractive.
Bernard-Henri LevyI don't really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.
Bernard-Henri LevyIn general, Europeans need to get a wider perspective on the problem of Islamism. Even if the Israel-Palestine question were solved - and I think and hope that one day soon it will be - this wouldn't stop one person from becoming a terrorist.
Bernard-Henri LevyPeople always think that loyalty is laudable. People are always saying that we must remain faithful to tradition, to family, to our class, to our ideas. Of course not! That would be equivalent to zero brain activity. If you really want to think, to seek truth, to advance intellectually, you must turn your back on clichรฉs, on preconceived ideas - even those belonging to your spiritual family. For an intellectual, his true duty is not to fidelity, but to infidelity.
Bernard-Henri Levy