Olivier Roy is research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and lectures at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and the Institut d?'tudes Politiques (IEP) in Paris. He has numerous books on politics and Islām and is said to be the leading expert on terrorism in France. The quote is for information purposes only and we may or may not necessarily agree with all of the views of this author.