Pro-Violence

Anwar al-Awlaki, Former Senior AQAP Media Official, Fall 2011

Name of Author
Anwar al-Awlaki
Body

“There is no difference in ruling between bayat (allegiance) and detonating a bomb in a populated center in a nation that is at war with the Muslims. Just as the swords of the companions and those who followed them could not distinguish between man, woman and child and yet were allowed to engage in bayat, why should we ban bombings of populated areas in disbelieving countries?”Anwar al-Awlaki, “Targeting the Populations of Countries that are at War with the Muslims,” Inspire Magazine 8 (2010): 42.

Rhetoric Category

Uthman Badar, HT Australia spokesman, July 3, 2011

Author
Date
July 3, 2011
Name of Author
Uthman Badar
Body

 “You have no business in interfering with the people of the Muslim world. Military occupation should be resisted militarily. People there have a right to resist.”Tim Vollmer, “Australian Troops ‘fair game’ for Muslims in war on Afghanistan, Hizb ut-Tahrir believe,” Daily Telegraph (Sydney), July 4, 2011, http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/australian-troops-fair-game-for-muslims-in-war-on-afghanistan-hizb-ut-tahrir-believe/story-e6freuy9-1226086675320.

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Rhetoric Category

Uthman Badar, HT Australia spokesman, July 3, 2011

Author
Date
July 3, 2011
Name of Author
Uthman Badar
Body

“If our members exist in a country where an occupation has occurred, in capacity as individuals they would have an obligation to resist.”Tim Vollmer, “Australian Troops ‘fair game’ for Muslims in war on Afghanistan, Hizb ut-Tahrir believe,” Daily Telegraph (Sydney), July 4, 2011, http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/australian-troops-fair-game-for-muslims-in-war-on-afghanistan-hizb-ut-tahrir-believe/story-e6freuy9-1226086675320.

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Rhetoric Category

Abubakar Shekau, June 2011

Date
Jun. 2011
Name of Author
Abubakar Shekau
Body

“Anybody, even if he is a learned Muslim teacher, if we confirm that he exposes us to the government, his children will become orphans and his wife will become a widow, in God’s name.”Adam Nossiter, “A Jihadist’s Face Taunts Nigeria From the Shadows,” New York Times, May 18, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/19/world/africa/a-jihadists-face-taunts-nigeria-from-the-shadows.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Aw%2C%7B%222%22%3A%22RI%3A16%22%7D

Rhetoric Category
Threat

Osama Hamdan, Hamas's representative in Lebanon, May 4, 2011

Author
Date
May 4, 2011
Body

“Yes, it will be an armed confrontation, as well as all other forms of struggle, including civil Intifdada against the occupation, against the wall, and against the Judaization of Jerusalem. There is no doubt, however, that the armed confrontation will continue to be the main effort and the backbone of the resistance, until the liberation of Palestine.”MEMRI, “Osama Hamdan, Head of the Hamas Foreign Liaisons: Armed Confrontation Will Continue to Be ‘the Backbone of the Resistance’, the Israelis Must Return to Their Countries of Origin,” Internet Archive, May 4, 2011, https://web.archive.org/web/20110605010923/http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/2949.htm.

Rhetoric Category
Threat

Seifallah Ben Hassine, May 2011

Date
May 2011
Name of Author
Seifallah Ben Hassine
Body

“Let the entire world celebrate the death of one of our Ummah’s leaders since the death and martyrdom of our leaders for the sake of this straight path… is an indication of the truthfulness of our way…This is the allegiance, and that is the promise to Allah—do not regress after the death of your sheikh [i.e., bin Laden], or the deaths of your leaders. Remain steadfast—and die for [the same cause] for which the best among you died.”Thomas Joscelyn, “Ansar Al-Sharia Tunisia Honors Senior Al Qaeda ‘Martyrs,’” Long War Journal, January 30, 2013, http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2013/01/ansar_al_sharia_tuni_3.php#.

Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas prime minister, May 2011

Date
May 2011
Name of Author
Ismail Haniyeh
Body

On the assassination of Osama bin Laden:

“We condemn the assassination of an Arab holy warrior. We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood.” John Vinocur, “For Obama, a Victory but Little Clarity,” New York Times, May 4, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/05/world/europe/05iht-politicus05.html.

Threat

Mukhtar Robow, Audio message, March 2011

Author
Date
Mar. 2011
Name of Author
Mukhtar Robow
Body

“If the so called Kenyan government thinks that we are easy we are telling them that we are not, the world is witness that we were behind the deadly explosions which have taken place in the Ugandan capital Kampala during the final match of the of the so called World Cup.” Nathaniel Horadam, "Profile: Sheikh Mukhtar Robow (Abu Mansur)," Critical Threats, November 14, 2011, http://www.criticalthreats.org/somalia/al-shabaab-leadership/sheikh-mukhtar-robow-abu-mansur-november-14-2011.

Rhetoric Category
Threat

Akram Abdullah Kassem, one of the Hamas prisoners released in exchange for Gilad Shalit, 2011

Date
2011
Name of Author
Akram Abdullah Kassem
Body

“I’m demanding to the resistance not to spare any effort to kidnap more soldiers. The Jews only understand one language—the language of force.”Ernesto Londoño, “Prisoner Swap with Israel Emboldens Hamas,” Washington Post, October 18, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/gilad-shalit-prisoner-swap-israel-prepares-for-the-captive-soldiers-release/2011/10/17/gIQAZ2lFsL_story.html.

Threat

Anwar al-Awlaki, Former Senior AQAP Media Official, Winter 2010

Date
2010
Name of Author
Anwar al-Awlaki
Body

“In the case of the United States, both the government and private citizens should be targeted. America and Americans are the Imam’s of kufr (disbelievers) in this day and age. The American people who vote for war mongering governments are intent on no good. Anyone who inflicts harm on them in any form is doing a favor to the ummah.”Anwar al-Awlaki, “The Ruling on Dispossessing the Disbelievers wealth in Dar al-Harb,” Inspire Magazine 4 (2010): 59.

Daily Dose

Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

In Their Own Words:

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].

Abu Ali al-Askari, Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH) Security Official Mar. 2023
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