- "Dr. Cardoso seems to be medicalizing terrorists by assuming they are mentally ill, while ignoring the possibility that they may be responding to real rather than merely perceived injustices. 

- "I think Dr. Cardoso has allowed political judgments to interfere with a scholarly examination". 

- "Here in New York, we have been discussing the possibility that one of the causes of terrorism may be political policies that are wrong and unjust, such as indiscriminate Israeli killings of Palestinians, and some commentators have raised the possibility that maybe if we stopped killing them they would stop killing us.

- "On the merits of it, Dr. Cardoso article is quite interesting".

- "Dr. Cardoso has a thinking which I think is very important: What is the use of killing those who precisely wish to die? We must eliminate the cause of so much hatred, and not fuel more and more the spiral of violence and terror".