“If we get arrested, the police will point their guns at us from the back and maybe from the front. If we can get even one of their weapons, we can shoot them. They will probably kill us but we will be martyrs automatically and receive Allah’s blessings.”“Criminal Complaint,” United States District Court, Eastern District of New York, April 1, 2015, https://cbsnewyork.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/velentzas-complaint.pdf.

“I want to send the message that I am ready to die for my religion any time.”Souad Mekhennet, “Austrian Returns, Unrepentant, to Online Jihad,” New York Times, November 15, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/world/europe/austrian-returns-to-online-jihad.html?_r=0.

“I believe this phenomenon of al-Qaeda is not going to stop. The phenomenon of martyrdom operations is contagious as the Prophet Muhammad correctly said.”Mahan Abedin, “Al-Muhajiroun in the UK: Interview with Omar Bakri Muhammad,” Jamestown Foundation, May 25, 2005, http://www.jamestown.org/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=290&no_cache=1#.VTatGvnF8no.

"To those who tell us to stop the martyrdom operations we say: give us an alternative." Graham Usher, “Weakened Arafat Left in Isolation as Factions Offer Alternative Route,” Guardian, June 5, 2002, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jun/06/israel.

“No one has the right to object to us giving away our souls and turning them into human bombs for a cause we consider more important and more sacred than our lives.” “Profile: Palestinian Islamic Jihad,” Fox News, February 20, 2003, http://www.foxnews.com/story/2003/02/20/profile-palestinian-islamic-jihad.

“We are going to retaliate with a language that the enemy can only understand. The danger of the suicide operations are coming.” “Profile: Palestinian Islamic Jihad,” Fox News, February 20, 2003, http://www.foxnews.com/story/2003/02/20/profile-palestinian-islamic-jihad.

Appearing on Lebanese television, announcing Hamas’s responsibility for a suicide attack within Israel: “Death is a goal for every Muslim.” “Profile: Moussa Abu Marzouk,” History Commons, http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=mousa_abu_marzouk.

“Anyone who fights America’s aggression, its greediness and its plans to encroach on the Persian Gulf region, has engaged in a holy war in the cause of Allah, and anyone who is killed on that path is a martyr.”“Iran Announces Arrest of American Businessman,” New York Times, November 5, 1992, http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/05/world/iran-announces-arrest-of-american-businessman.html.

“Osama bin Laden was a great person who awakened the Muslim world….. Martyrdoms are not losses, but are a matter of pride for Muslims,” Saeed proclaimed. Bill Roggio, “We do jihad,’ says Lashkar-e-Taiba emir Hafiz Saeed,” The Long War Journal, April 7th, 2012, http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2012/04/we_do_jihad_lashkar.php.