Anti-American

Ahmad Bahar, speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, April 20, 2007

Author
Date
Apr. 20, 2007
Name of Author
Ahmad Bahar
Body

“Be certain that America is on its way to utter destruction, America is wallowing [in blood] today in Iraq and Afghanistan, America is defeated and Israel is defeated, and was defeated in Lebanon and Palestine... Make us victorious over the community of infidels... Allah, take the Jews and their allies, Allah, take the Americans and their allies... Allah, annihilate them completely and do not leave anyone of them.”“Hamas in Their Own Words,” Anti-Defamation League, May 2, 2011, http://www.adl.org/anti-semitism/muslim-arab-world/c/hamas-in-their-own-words.html.

Threat

Ali Khamenei, January 8, 2007

Author
Date
Jan. 8, 2007
Name of Author
Ali Khamenei
Body

“The United States is taking advantage of the weakness of Islamic countries and is bullying and intimidating their governments. The United States, while being submissive to the usurper Zionist regime at all times, is bullying and blackmailing certain Arab governments.”Leader’s Speech to the Residents of Qom,” The Office of the Supreme Leader Sayyid Ali Khamenei, January 8, 2007, http://www.leader.ir/langs/en/index.php?p=bayanat&id=3587.

Rhetoric Category

Abdul Alim Musa, Circa 2007

Date
2007
Name of Author
Abdul Alim Musa
Body

“The American ship is going down. And it’s clowns like that that’s driving it down. We don’t have to do nothing. Just step back, pray, fast, do good deeds, and stuff like that. And let that guy go…When he finishes, nobody will love, nobody will trust, and nobody will believe anything coming from the United States of America.”Dan Morse, “Case Against Ex-Guard Brings Scrutiny of D.C. Imam,” Washington Post, September 19, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/18/AR2007091802154.html.

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Threat

Ismail Haniyeh, then–Hamas-designated disputed prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, October 6, 2006

Date
Oct. 6, 2006
Name of Author
Ismail Haniyeh
Body

The Palestinians face an “unethical and unjust siege led by the United States administration.” Greg Myre, “Palestinian Premier Vows Not to Recognize Israel,” New York Times, October 6, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/06/world/middleeast/07mideastcnd.html.

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Threat

Abdul Alim Musa, October 5, 2006

Date
Oct. 5, 2006
Name of Author
Abdul Alim Musa
Body

Asserting that 9/11 was a conspiracy perpetrated by the Americans: “We got to get rid of this new Hitler…Just like Hitler burned the Reichstag…to gain full power over the people…George Bush brings down the World Trade Center, blames it on us [Muslims] and then claims himself dictator over the world. So we're here to say it's all over for George.”“Sabiqun and Anti-Semitism on Campus,” Anti-Defamation League, September 11, 2009, http://archive.adl.org/main_anti_israel/sabiqun_anti-semitismc089.html#.VWhmbM9Viko.

Rhetoric Category
Threat

Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General, September 2006

Date
Sep. 2006
Name of Author
Hassan Nasrallah
Body

“It was an American war by providing the arms and the planning and by giving deadline after deadline to the enemy. What stopped the war was the Zionists' failure to defeat us."“Hezbollah Leader: Militants ‘Won’t Surrender Arms’,” CNN, September 22, 2006, accessed October 23, 2014, http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/22/lebanon.rally/.

Threat

Tahir Yuldashev, September 2006

Date
Sep. 2006
Name of Author
Tahir Yuldashev
Body

“We appeal to all Moslems... in the light of the event that dramatically changed world politics five years ago, on September 11, 2001. A strike at America, the fortress that had considered itself impregnable, changed politics throughout the world... Bush launched a war on Afghanistan.”“Leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan Tahir Yuldashev Threatens Presidents Karimov, Bakiyev, and Rakhmonov,” Ferghana News, September 13, 2006, https://enews.fergananews.com/articles/1595.

Rhetoric Category

Ali Khamenei, April 14, 2006

Author
Date
Apr. 14, 2006
Name of Author
Ali Khamenei
Body

“Today Western liberal democracy is as much discredited and despised in the Muslim world as the socialism and communism of the erstwhile Eastern block.”“Palestinian Issue, the Focal Point,” Office of the Supreme Leader Sayyid Ali Khamenei, April 14, 2006, http://www.leader.ir/langs/en/index.php?p=bayanat&id=3516.

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

On May 8, 2019, Taliban insurgents detonated an explosive-laden vehicle and then broke into American NGO Counterpart International’s offices in Kabul. At least seven people were killed and 24 were injured.

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