“Al-Shabab feels honoured to be included on the list. We are good Muslims and the Americans are infidels...We are fighting a jihad to rid Somalia of the Ethiopians and its allies, the secular Somali stooges...We will continue to attack peacekeepers in Somalia, regardless of their nationality." Harper, Mary. "Profile: Somalia's Islamist 'lads'" BBC, March 21, 2008, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7307521.stm.

“I tell my son, if you’re not going to follow the steps of the Islamic resistance martyrs, then I don’t want you.”Robert F. Worth and Nada Bakri, “Hezbollah Threatens Attacks on Israeli Targets,” New York Times, February 15, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/15/world/middleeast/15lebanon.html.

“There cannot be any peace while India remains intact. Cut them, cut them so much that they kneel before you and ask for mercy.”Arundhati Roy, “The Monster in the Mirror,” Guardian (London), December 12, 2008, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/dec/12/mumbai-arundhati-roy.

"We are now planning to launch the most enormous attacks on the government and Ethiopian main positions. We will allow no foreign forces in our land... In the past days the infidel troops of Ethiopians along with their puppets and al-Shabab al-Mujahideen have fought heavily in Mogadishu. We have raided the enemies' military bases showering them with mortar shells...When we force Ethiopia to withdraw its troops from our country, its traitors will follow and the people will be able to embrace an Islamic government. Democracy is not right. They call it democracy when a man marries another man and a woman marries another woman. How can such things be allowed to happen?” "INTERVIEW-Somali Insurgency to Intensify-Islamist Leader," Reuters, December 16, 2007, http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/12/16/idUSL16540328.

“There will be no concessions over one inch of Palestine. We will defend this land by our flesh and we will water it by our blood.”Nidal al-Mughrabi, “Abbas slammed as "traitor" at anti-Annapolis rallies,” Reuters, November 27, 2007, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-palestinians-israel-gaza/abbas-slammed-as-traitor-at-anti-annapolis-rallies-idUSL2757385120071127.

“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.

“...the Jewish faith does not wish for peace nor stability, since it is a faith that is based on murder: 'I kill, therefore I am'... Israel is based only on blood and murder in order to exist, and it will disappear, with Allah's will, through blood and Shahids [martyrs].”“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.

When asked if ASG is a terrorist group:
“We are mujahideen, albeit a bit brutal since we won’t distinguish oppressive soldiers from its public of citizenry–they are generally our enemies. And we cannot soften up or become friends even with Arabs if they are in league with our enemies.”Octavio A. Dinampo, “Khadaffy Janjalani’s Last Interview” Philippine Daily Inquirer (Makati City), January 22, 2007, http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20070122-44761/A_last_ext.

“They [the Jews] have taken part in actions and movements that serve global Zionism first and foremost, and are working diligently at corrupting people and making them abandon their values, their moral and religious values, and spread all kinds of abominations throughout society... Our Islam religion compels us to fight the corrupt and denounce them.”Roee Nahmias, “Yemenite Jews under threat,” Ynetnews, January 22, 2007, http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3355506,00.html.

“We have joined this movement to become martyrs, and not ministers.”Greg Myre, “Hamas and Fatah Clash as Tension Rises,” New York Times, December 15, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/15/world/middleeast/15cnd-mideast.html.