“For it is, in fact, part of our religion to impose our particular beliefs upon others… we are to force people by the power of the sword to [our] particular understandings, customs, and conditions, all in order to induce debasement and humility, just like Allah commanded… And the West’s notions that Islam is a religion of jihad and enmity toward the religions of the infidels and the infidels themselves is an accurate and true depiction.”Raymond Ibrahim, trans., The Al-Qaeda Reader (New York: Doubleday, 2007), 51-52.
Osama bin Laden, Founder of Al-Qaeda, Date Undetermined
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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
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We reiterate once again that the brigades will directly target US bases across the region in case the US enemy commits a folly and decides to strike our resistance fighters and their camps [in Iraq].
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