“The West is hostile to us on account of Loyalty and Enmity, and [Offensive] Jihad. So how can the writers of the declaration address those infidels who attack our faith by word and deed with such trivial matters that have nothing to do with the heart of the conflict? What the West desires is that we abandon [the doctrine of] Loyalty and Enmity, and abandon [Offensive] Jihad. This is the very essence of their request and desire of us. Do the intellectuals, then, think it’s actually possible for Muslims to abandon these two commandments simply to coexist with the West?”Raymond Ibrahim, trans., The Al-Qaeda Reader (New York: Doubleday, 2007), 30-31.