“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.

“No one has the right to object to us giving away our souls and turning them into human bombs for a cause we consider more important and more sacred than our lives.” “Profile: Palestinian Islamic Jihad,” Fox News, February 20, 2003, http://www.foxnews.com/story/2003/02/20/profile-palestinian-islamic-jihad.

“But jihad in the Way of Allah is a much more comprehensive term than mere fighting in the Way of Allah. Jihad applies to all those efforts that are made to degrade the word of kufr and to exalt the Word of Allah and to establish the Islamic System of life, whether by propagating the Message of Allah in the initial stage or by fighting in the final stage of the struggle.”David Aaron, In Their Own Words: Voices of Jihad (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 2008), 58.

“Since the objective of the message of Islam is a decisive declaration of man’s freedom, not merely on the philosophical plane but also in the actual conditions of life, it must employ Jihaad.”David Aaron, In Their Own Words: Voices of Jihad (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 2008), 61.

In an email:

“A pious man will get the (religious) education here and take off for jihad ... And may Allah help young guys who bought tickets too :)”John Marzulli, “Fourth suspect indicted in alleged plot by Brooklyn men to join ISIS,” New York Daily News, April 6, 2015, http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/fourth-suspect-indicted-alleged-plot-join-isis-article-1.2175427.

In electronic messages found on his phone:

“jihad is fard-ayn,” which translates to “jihad is obligatory.”Stephanie Clifford, “4th Brooklyn man indicted in plot to assist ISIS pleads not guilty,” New York Times, April 8, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/nyregion/4th-brooklyn-man-indicted-in-plot-to-assist-isis-pleads-not-guilty.html.

“All the Mujahideen wage Jihad … against the American invaders and their lackeys.”“Haqqani Network is part of the Taliban – Siraj Haqqani,” Bill Roggio, Long War Journal, October 5, 2012, http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2012/10/siraj_haqqani_denies.php.

Part of an email correspondence with an unnamed individual while in Syria: “I work with the brothers trying to help people to live Kind of Jihad.”

“Islam wishes to destroy all States and Governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and programme of Islam regardless of the country or the Nation which rules it…It must be evident to you from this discussion that the objective of Islamic ‘Jihad’ is to eliminate the rule of an un-Islamic system and establish in its stead an Islamic system to State rule. Islam does not intend to confine this revolution to a single State or a few countries; the aim of Islam is to bring about a universal revolution.”Abul A’la Maududi, “Jihad in Islam,” April 13, 1939, 5, http://muhammadanism.com/Terrorism/jihah_in_islam/jihad_in_islam.pdf.

“In reality Islam is a militant ideology and programme which seeks to alter the social order of the whole world and rebuild it in conformity with its own tenets and ideals. ‘Muslim’ is the title of that International Militant Party organized by Islam to carry into effect its militant programme. And ‘Jihad’ refers to that militant struggle and utmost exertion which the Islamic Party brings into play to achieve this objective.”Abul A’la Maududi, “Jihad in Islam,” April 13, 1939, 5, http://muhammadanism.com/Terrorism/jihah_in_islam/jihad_in_islam.pdf.