Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Leader and Founder of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, January 2005

“We have declared a bitter war against democracy and all those who seek to enact it… Democracy is also based on the right to choose your religion… [which is] against the rule of God.”“Purported al-Zarqawi tape: Democracy a lie,” CNN, January 23, 2005, http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/23/iraq.main/index.html.