“When I first heard about the September 11, 2001 attacks there was some initial delight about such an attack. I received a phone call and said, ‘Oh, wow, the United States has come under attack.’ It was exciting.”“A Profile of Syrian Jihadist Omar Bakri Muhammad,” Jamestown Foundation, December 21, 2012, http://mlm.jamestown.org/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=40259&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=591#.VU-iktpViko.

Paraphrasing Jamil Al-Amin a.k.a. H. Rap Brown, prominent Black Panther and convert to Islam: “If you don't stay out of our way and leave us alone, we're going to burn America down.” (Speech at University of California, Irvine)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.

“Zionists are the main policy makers of America and the problem is that Iran is the biggest and most important center of confrontation with Israel.” John F. Burns, “Ayatollah Rebukes Iran Liberals and U.S.,” New York Times, November 4, 1999, http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/04/world/ayatollah-rebukes-iran-liberals-and-us.html.

“It is very clear today that America has no other fate in mind for us today than before the revolution, that of submission, and obviously we will fight that.” John F. Burns, “Ayatollah Rebukes Iran Liberals and U.S.,” New York Times, November 4, 1999, http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/04/world/ayatollah-rebukes-iran-liberals-and-us.html.

World Islamic Front fatwa issued with Bin Laden:

“All these sins and crimes committed by the Americans are a clear declaration of war on God, his messenger and Muslims.

“The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies - civilians and military - is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in every country in which it is possible to do it...

“We, with God's help, call on every Muslim who believes in God and wishes to be rewarded to comply with God's order to kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it.”“Ayman al-Zawahiri in his own words,” BBC News, June 16, 2011, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/world-middle-east-13792238.

Following al-Qaeda’s attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania:

“Tell America that its bombings, its threats and its acts of aggression do not frighten us. The war has only just begun.”“Ayman al-Zawahiri in his own words,” BBC News, June 16, 2011, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/world-middle-east-13792238.

“The American campaign undoubtedly targets the Muslim Ummah first and foremost because only the Muslim Ummah has an ideology capable of confronting and challenging Capitalism.”Hizb ut-Tahrir, The American Campaign to Suppress Islam (London: Al Khilafah Publications, 1996), 39, http://www.ht-bangladesh.info/sites/default/files/books/uscampaign.pdf.

“Therefore, a Muslim cannot accept both the pluralism which America propagates and the unrestricted pluralism which means accepting the existence of calls for Kufr and anything which Allah has prohibited.”Hizb ut-Tahrir, The American Campaign to Suppress Islam (London: Al Khilafah Publications, 1996), 19, http://www.ht-bangladesh.info/sites/default/files/books/uscampaign.pdf.

“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.

“We will never permit the United States to make a foothold or turn the region into its zone of influence wherever we are present and have influence and anywhere our words, as the voice of Islam, are heard by Muslims.”Youssef M. Ibrahim, “Confrontation in the Gulf; Resist U.S. in Gulf, Top Iranian Cleric Urges All Muslims,” New York Times, September 13, 1990, http://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/13/world/confrontation-in-the-gulf-resist-us-in-gulf-top-iranian-cleric-urges-all-muslims.html.