Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al-Qaeda emir, September 3, 2014

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Date

September 3, 2014

Name of Author

Ayman al-Zawahiri

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In a video release announcing the formation of AQIS:
“It is an entity that was formed to promulgate the call of the reviving imam Sheikh Usama bin Laden, may Allah have mercy on him, to call the Ummah to unite round the word of Tawhid [monotheism], to wage jihad against its enemies, to liberate its land, to restore its sovereignty, and to revive its Caliphate.”Bill Roggio, “Al Qaeda Opens Branch in the ‘Indian Subcontinent,’” Long War Journal, September 3, 2014, http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/09/al_qaeda_opens_branc.php.

Rhetoric Category

Pro-Islamism

Pro-Jihad

Pro-Violence

Threat

Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS)

Location: Eisenhower Theater

Tuesday January 27, 2026 7:30p.m.

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Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Counter Extremism Project's ARCHER at House 88 presents a landmark concert of music composed in ghettos and death camps, performed in defiance of resurgent antisemitism. Curated with world renowned composer, conductor, and musicologist Francesco Lotoro, the program restores classical, folk, and popular works, many written on scraps of paper or recalled from memory, to public consciousness. Featuring world and U.S. premieres from Lotoro's archive, this concert honors a repertoire that endured against unimaginable evil.

Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al-Qaeda emir, September 3, 2014

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