“The appropriate and most suitable response from the [Saudi] intellectuals’ declaration to the Crusaders [should have been] that we will rise up individually and collectively in order to support jihad and the mujahidin, and we will support and increase martyrdom operations. It is incumbent upon us to respond to them by transferring the battle from the military realm to the political and economic realms, and the cultural, intellectual, and social realms, and all of life’s realms… the good of the people is found in Islam; and Islam is spread with the sword alone, just as the Prophet was sent forth with the sword… and everything they [Western intellectuals] evoked in [their] declaration [to the Saudi intellectuals]—freedom, justice, mercy, and rights—is in complete accordance with the notions of the infidels, not the notions of Islam.”Raymond Ibrahim, trans., The Al-Qaeda Reader (New York: Doubleday, 2007), 46-47.