“[K]now that one of the biggest factors that brought about this victory that Allah...has blessed you with is your support of each other, the absence of disagreement, your listening to and obedience of your leaders, and your patience with them. So keep this factor in mind and preserve it. Unite with each other and do not disagree with each other. Accept each other and do not argue with each other. Be very wary of breaking the ranks... And if anyone wants to break the ranks, split his head with bullets and empty its insides, whoever he may be...” (Declaring an Islamic caliphate) “ISIS Declares Islamic Caliphate, Appoints Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi As 'Caliph', Declares All Muslims Must Pledge Allegiance To Him,” The Middle East Media Research Institute, June 30, 2014, http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/8049.htm.

“The scene they have created in Iraq is the result of the United States’ behind-the-scene attempts to sow discord and they are certainly the main mastermind of these events.”“Basij Commander Blames US for Volatile Situation in Iraq,” Fars News Agency, June 18, 2014, http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13930328000806.

“They (the US and Israel) had come to destroy Syria, but they have failed now.”“Basij Commander: US, Israel Main Losers of Syria’s Successful Election,” Fars News Agency, June 10, 2014, http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13930320001486.

“One day the flag of tawheed will fly over Downing Street and the White House.” (Tweet)Brett Gibbons, “Birmingham hacker Junaid Hussain among Brits fighting in Syria,” Birmingham Mail, June 19, 2014, http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/birmingham-hacker-junaid-hussain-syria-7291864.

“The US and Israel were the main losers of the presidential election in Syria.”“Basij Commander: US, Israel Main Losers of Syria’s Successful Election,” Fars News Agency, June 10, 2014, http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13930320001486.

“America and its allies are responsible for the bringing in and financing of Takfiri terrorism in our region through the Syrian gate.”“America and its allies responsible for terrorism: Qassem,” Daily Star, June 14, 2014, http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2014/Jun-14/260130-america-and-its-allies-responsible-for-terrorism-qassem.ashx.

“Battle and jihad are endless because evil and its front continue to exist. … This battle will only end when the society can get rid of the oppressors’ front with America at the head of it, which has expanded its claws on human mind, body and thought….”Cheryl K. Chumley, “Iran’s Ayatollah: Jihad Will Last until America Is Wiped out,” Washington Times, May 26, 2014, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/26/iran-ayatollah-jihad-will-last-until-america-wiped/.

“We remind America, if they intervene, of their defeats in Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia, because they would face in Libya something much worse...It was America who urged Haftar to turn the country towards war and bloodshed.”Ayman Al-Warfalli, “Libyan Islamists to U.S.: Don't Interfere or Face Worse than Iraq,” Reuters, May 28, 2014, http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/05/27/libya-violence-idINKBN0E72KX20140527.

Accusing his Syrian rebel enemy of working with the West: “I am not saying that you have no relation to the revolution, but I am saying that you people have [foreign] friends, and you go to Turkey and sit there and listen to things that make God angry. You sit with godless and faithless people, and strange things occur.” (From a phone call between al-Iraqi and his enemy, a Syrian rebel commander) Mike Giglio, “A Late-Night Phone Call Between One of Syria’s Top Extremists And His Sworn Enemy,” BuzzFeed News, April 3, 2014, http://www.buzzfeed.com/mikegiglio/a-late-night-phone-call-between-one-of-syrias-top-extremists#.wgA5eEyo8d.

“The flame of Jihad was stoked, the Crusade campaign was broken and the Islamic State was established in spite of the villains, and America was expelled (from Iraq) disgraced and driven away, dragging their tails between their legs, defeated and broken, leaving in its wake a map of the Islamic State, ready to redraw the world upon the Prophetic manhaj (way) methodology of the [caliphate]. So verily, the [Islamic] State, with the favour of Allah alone, becomes stronger day after day. Its authority has not ceased since it was founded, by the favour of Allah, and its conquests shall not cease, with the permission of Allah, until the cross is smashed, the swine is killed and the Jizyah (tax for people of the book) is imposed, and there will be no fitnah (tribulation) on Earth and the Rule shall be for Allah alone completely.”Aaron Y. Zelin, “al-Furqān Media presents a new audio message from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shām’s Shaykh Abū Muḥammad al ‘Adnānī al-Shāmī: ‘He Will Surely Establish For Them [Therein] Their Religion Which He Has Preferred For Them,’” Jihadology, last modified April 19, 2014, http://jihadology.net/2014/04/03/al-furqan-media-presents-a-new-audio-message-from-the-islamic-state-of-iraq-and-al-shams-shaykh-abu-mu%E1%B8%A5ammad-al-adnani-al-shami-he-will-surely-establish-for-them-therein.