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Jihad is obligatory for the Muslims. -- Abu Bakr
To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad. -- Abu Bakr
We wish that all countries around the world honor our wishes and our Jihad, and we avoid interfering in their business. -- Ahmed Yassin
It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression. -- Ahmed Yassin
Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs. -- Ahmed Yassin
The most excellent Jihad is that for the conquest of self. -- Muhammad
Our Jihad will remain on Palestinian soil that is wide and large. -- Ahmed Yassin
Jihad is described as a war against Muslims, to establish the religion. -- Mark Durie
The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation. -- Abu Bakr
Jihad and the rifle alone. NO negotiations, NO conferences and NO dialogue -- Sheikh Abdullah
Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve. -- Marvin Olasky
Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community. -- John O. Brennan
In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad -- Pamela Geller
Our resolution urges all Latin American and Caribbean countries to designate al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad as terrorist organizations. -- Tom Lantos
Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle - either victory or martyrdom. -- Ahmed Yassin
The universalism of Islam, in its all-embracing creed, is imposed on the believers as a continuous process of warfare, psychological and political, if not strictly military. . . . The Jihad, accordingly, may be stated as a doctrine of a permanent state of war, not continuous fighting. -- Majid Khadduri
I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is. -- Aasif Mandvi
Jihad expands Islam's domain by any means available. -- Ralph Peters
Jihad will continue even if I am not around. -- Osama bin Laden
Jihad is our path and death in the name of Allah is our goal. -- Mohammed Morsi
Jihad is becoming as American as apple pie and as British as afternoon tea. -- Anwar al-Awlaki
'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
The Jihad is not just a way of testing yourself but also means using violence to spread Islam. -- Bassam Tibi
Jihad was still present when there was no Usamah and it will remain as such even when Usamah is no longer there. -- Osama bin Laden
Jihad should be waged in places where there is war. Bombings in places where there is no war is not a good thing. -- Abu Bakar Bashir
The truth about Hamas and Islamic Jihad is that they don't prevent Israel from existing or even flourishing, they prevent Palestine from coming into existence -- Michael Medved
The truth about Hamas and Islamic Jihad is that they don't prevent Israel from existing or even flourishing, they prevent Palestine from coming into existence. -- Michael Medved
Iran stands behind a substantial number of terrorist actions against us, together with Hizballah and the Islamic Jihad. It pretends to care for the Palestinians. -- Moshe Katsav
There was a rumor that Jesse Jackson was going to go over there to talk with the Taliban, apparently they were having trouble rhyming the word Jihad. -- Jay Leno
I just heard about a woman in Germany who just gave birth to a baby boy named "Jihad." Or as the TSA put it, "Hope you like Amtrak! -- Jimmy Fallon
Muslims have different meanings for the same words that we use. They are so convinced of the "truth" of Islam that they do not perceive Jihad/terrorism, or dhimmitude as violence. -- Ali Sina
Jihad amongst the Muslims today has become like a taboo subject that is discussed over coffee. The one who writes and speaks about Jihad has not even spent a minute in the battlefield. -- Sheikh Abdullah
We have to destroy their caliphate because that gives them legitimacy to go ahead with the global Jihad. We have to take their energy because they are - ISIS is the richest terrorist organization there is. -- Benjamin Carson
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It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Islamic terrorism is not common crime but an act of war. Jihad is war. For the Jihadi it is a war; we must also accept it as such. Home grown Muslim militants must be treated, not just as enemy combatants but as traitors. -- Ali Sina
Muslims have to give up three things if they want to become Europeans: They have to bid farewell to the idea of converting others, and renounce the Jihad. The third thing they need to give up is the Shariah, which is the Islamic legal system. -- Bassam Tibi
We need to stay in Iraq until the job is done. The President understands this and I'm glad that he is getting more countries to participate. We must change the chant of millions of young Muslims from 'Jihad Against the World' to 'Freedom and Democracy.' -- George Voinovich
There's no question that jihad historically means war. -- Pat Robertson
The best jihad is to speak a word of justice to an oppressive ruler. -- Muhammad
For many foreign fighters, the jihad in Iraq and Syria is a commuter war. -- Richard Engel
The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance -- Ahmed Yassin
The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance. -- Ahmed Yassin
TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows. -- Penn Jillette
What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that's quite outrageous. -- Tom Brokaw
The people of Afghanistan will continue to remember his lasting friendship with the people of Afghanistan as well as his unstinting support during the years of jihad against the Soviets. -- Hamid Karzai
I am ready to sacrifice everything in completing the unfinished agenda of our noble jihad... until there is no bloodshed in Afghanistan and Islam becomes a way of life for our people. -- Mohammed Omar
A foreign ideology cannot be introduced into Chechnya - were it through an Arab or al-Qaeda. Our experience is rich and long enough for us to be Muslims and know what jihad is. -- Aslan Maskhadov
You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad. -- Abu Bakar Bashir
Young people, some of whom are not born into the faith, are being fired up by preachers using basic Islamic scripture and mobilized to wage jihad by radical imams who represent themselves as legitimate Muslim clergymen. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
We declared jihad against the US government, because the US government is unjust, criminal and tyrannical. It has committed acts that are extremely unjust, hideous and criminal whether directly or through its support of the Israeli occupation. -- Osama bin Laden
Nobody, absolutely nobody, straps a bomb on their body because they were recruited from the Internet. It takes an enormous amount of personal face-to-face contact and time in order to recruit a young person into the cause of jihad. -- Reza Aslan
Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad. -- Arthur Hertzberg
The Syrian border town of Qa'im was the main gateway Islamic radicals used to go to Iraq. Syria became the passageway for extremists from Egypt, Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and other Muslim nations to fight a jihad against American forces in Iraq. -- Richard Engel
Look at the newborn baby. It struggles to breathe after living in the womb. And yet, growth comes as a result of struggle. Even when we talk about jihad. We need to attach consciousness to struggle. This struggle has to be both individual and collective. -- H. Rap Brown
What made al Qaeda retrieve the doctrine of militant jihad, and Breivik the ideas of crusade and reconquest, is a sense of siege. So, we should help both Westerners and Muslims get rid of that sense by easing their political tensions and by fostering dialogue between them. -- Mustafa Akyol
Sharia is the most oppressive system on earth. It encourages people to lie, if it's for the benefits of Islam. It doesn't allow Muslims to leave Islam, and there's a death penalty in all the schools of Sharia against those that leave Islam. Sharia defines what jihad is. -- Mark Durie
Seek (beneficial) knowledge, because seeking it for the sake of Allaah is a worship. And knowing it makes you more God-fearing; and searching for it is jihad, teaching it to those who do not know is charity, reviewing and learning it more is like tasbeeh. Through knowledge Allaah will be known and worshiped. -- Ibn Taymiyyah
If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind. -- Jack Vance
Let's go and do jihad -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Long live jihad and long live Palestine. -- Saddam Hussein
Believe it, through jihad, a man gets everything he desires. -- Osama bin Laden
Every mosque that is tied to jihad-related activity should be shut. -- Pamela Geller
The object of jihad is to bring the whole world under Islamic Law. -- Bernard Lewis
Just because you're interested in what jihad is doesn't mean you intend to join. -- Carla Hayden
Thanks to God, those waging a jihad can walk today with their heads raised. -- Osama bin Laden
ISIS is the new jihad - violent jihadist vanguard in the Middle East and globally. -- Michele Flournoy
The hearts of the people of Muslim countries are beating with the call of jihad. -- Osama bin Laden
If you join ISIS, if you wage jihad on America, then you are signing your death warrant. -- Ted Cruz
Al-Qa'idah is not against any Islamic country nor we consider a war against an Islamic country as jihad. -- Osama bin Laden
Whatever the reason, American Muslims appear far less inclined to support the global jihad than their European counterparts. -- Timothy Noah
The struggle for jihad and the successes are for the sake of Allah and not to annoy His bondsmen. -- Osama bin Laden
Let me sum up in two words how the unhinged Left copes with the threat of global jihad: "Kill Bush!" -- Michelle Malkin
The Tsarnaev brothers, the elder brother made a public call to jihad and the [Barack] Obama administration didn't target it. -- Ted Cruz
Saudi hijackers first came into contact with al-Qaeda and went through Terrorism 101 when they signed up for the jihad in Afghanistan. -- Thomas Friedman
The jihad was therefore employed as an instrument for both the universalization of religion and the establishment of an imperial world state. -- Majid Khadduri
The little jihad is over, and now we have the bigger jihad - the bigger battle is achieving security and economic growth -- Mahmoud Abbas
Al-Qa'idah was set up to wage a jihad against infidelity, particularly to encounter the onslaught of the infidel countries against the Islamic states. -- Osama bin Laden
The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence. -- Sam Harris
Al-Qa'idah is in favour of armed jihad only against those infidel countries, which are killing innocent Muslim men, women, and children just because they are Muslims. -- Osama bin Laden
In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of 'jihad'. -- Walid Muallem
If the instigation for jihad [holy war] against the Jews and the Americans ... is considered a crime, then let history be a witness that I am a criminal. -- Osama bin Laden
In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of jihad. -- Walid Muallem
I am more on a global jihad to preserve our freedom. I believe that even though I have nothing against the people or Muslims or anybody for that reason. -- Geert Wilders
American Taliban John Walker Lindh has pleaded guilty to two counts of terrorism and will face twenty years in prison. I guess that means his jihad is on ji-hold. -- Jay Leno
Religious liberty doesn't include encouraging a fellow American to engage in violent jihad and kill an American here. That is not protected free speech. That is not protected religious belief. -- George Pataki
Pakistan is sacred for us like a place of worship. We are the people of jihad and fighting for the defence of Pakistan is the best of all jihads to us. -- Osama bin Laden
It does not matter for us as to who rules Pakistan. The important thing is that the spirit of jihad is alive and stronger in the hearts of the Pakistani people. -- Osama bin Laden
I was thinking about Afghanistan's future, Afghanistan's next generation, what we have next. These children who learn how to kill people, how to do jihad, how to behead, how to fire, this would be Afghanistan. -- Najibullah Quraishi
Far from being the father of jihad, [Prophet] Mohammad was a peacemaker, who risked his life and nearly lost the loyalty of his closest companions because he was determined to effect a reconciliation with Mecca -- Karen Armstrong

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