Pro-Violence

Excerpt from Roof’s manifesto:

“I am not in the position to, alone, go into the ghetto and fight. I chose Charleston because it is most historic city in my state, and at one time had the highest ratio of blacks to Whites in the country. We have no skinheads, no real KKK, no one doing anything but talking on the internet. Well someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world, and I guess that has to be me.”Frances Robles, “Dylann Roof Photos and a Manifesto Are Posted on Website,” New York Times, June 20, 2015, https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/us/dylann-storm-roof-photos-website-charleston-church-shooting.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=b-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news.

“If you can’t make a bomb because family, friends or spies are watching or suspecting you, take a knife, molotov, sound bomb or a car at night and attack the tourists (crusaders), police, and soldiers… of Western Embassies in every country you are in this planet.”United States of America v. Zachary Clark, Criminal Complaint, (S.D.N.Y. 2019), 21, https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1221386/download.

“We will regroup the forces of the resistance in a single entity to respond to Washington.

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“The American aggression against the Hashed Al Shaabi has marked the beginning of the war against the resistance.

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“We will wage a war against the American presence in all parts of the region that we can reach. Thousands of Marines are present in possible targets.”Agence France-Presse, “Iraqi armed factions call meeting to begin anti-US fight,” Jordan Times (Amman) January 7, 2020, http://www.jordantimes.com/news/region/iraqi-armed-factions-call-meeting-begin-anti-us-fight.

“From the heroic Barkan operation to the Ofra operation, the Qassam Brigades are undertaking a new battle.” Adam Rasoon, “Hamas spokesman praises ‘heroic’ West Bank terror attack,” Times of Israel, December 13, 2018, https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-spokesman-praises-heroic-west-bank-terror-attack/.

“The heroic Silwad operation is a response to the Zionist occupation‘s crimes and behavior in the occupied West Bank. The West Bank‘s youth and men will remain rebels against the occupation and continue to clash with it until it is banished.” (Tweet) Adam Rasoon, “Hamas spokesman praises ‘heroic’ West Bank terror attack,” Times of Israel, December 13, 2018, https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-spokesman-praises-heroic-west-bank-terror-attack/

Address marking the 12-year anniversary of the end of the 2006 war with Israel:

“No one should threaten us with wars. If someone will go to war [with us] they are welcome. We are not afraid, we are prepared and if God is willing, we will win.”“Hezbollah at its strongest, Nasrallah warns Israel,” Daily Star (Beirut), August 15, 2018, http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2018/Aug-15/460275-hezbollah-at-its-strongest-nasrallah-warns-israel.ashx.

“The resistance has precision and non-precision missiles in their possession. If Israel wages a war on Lebanon, they will face a situation they would have never expected.”“Nasrallah warns Israel: The resistance has evolved,” Daily Star (Beirut), September 20, 2018, http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2018/Sep-20/463997-nasrallah-warns-israel-the-resistance-has-evolved.ashx.

In a propaganda video:
“The brave and Mujahid of Afghanistan rejects disbelief, apostasy, democracy, and slavery! Last half century proves that this land was and will be the land of Islam and Jihad.”Bill Roggio, “Taliban fighters promise to ‘play with the skulls’ of dead American soldiers,” Long War Journal, September 28, 2017, https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2017/09/taliban-fighters-promise-to-play-with-the-skulls-of-dead-american-soldiers.php.

Addressing U.S. President Trump and American soldiers:
“With the permission of Allah we will play with your skulls.”Bill Roggio, “Taliban fighters promise to ‘play with the skulls’ of dead American soldiers,” Long War Journal, September 28, 2017, https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2017/09/taliban-fighters-promise-to-play-with-the-skulls-of-dead-american-soldiers.php.

“Instead of continuing of war in Afghanistan, Americans should have thought about withdrawing their soldiers from Afghanistan. As long as there is even one American solder [sic] in our country [Taliban soldiers will] continue our jihad.”“Taliban condemn Trump's decision on Afghanistan war, vow ‘jihad’ will go on,” Reuters, August 22, 2017, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-afghanistan-taliban-idUSKCN1B20ES?il=0.