Jerusalem had been shaped and mapped by the religions of its rulers. ibid.
Nowhere, not on his inscriptions, not on his coins, not on any of his documents is there so much as a single mention of Muhammad. ibid.
They are the main group of Generation Jihad. The people who are out there who spend all this time collecting and assimilating propaganda from Al Qaeda and who are riding right on the line between activity that is defended by freedom of speech and certainly legitimate research activity to going and putting these ideas into action. Evan Kohlmann, terrorism consultant
It’s the fusion of things that never really went along with each other: conservative religious beliefs, high technology, social networking on-line. It’s a generational thing too. You do see older people getting involved with this. But the real people pushing this forward are young people. They are Al Qaeda’s entrepreneurs. They’re the entrepreneurs of Jihad. They’re taking these ideas and innovating. Evan Kohlmann
The Muslims see the extension of Jihad as a war liberating the infidels from their infidelity and a privilege for them. Bat Ye’or, author The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians Under Islam
Islamic fundamentalist is a sleeper cell in America. Walid Shoebat, former PLO member
America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings. Barack Obama
We want to give children a military education. Mansoor Dadullah, Taliban commander
I prepared all my sons for Jihad for the sake of Allah. Umm Nidal, Egyptian TV February 2005
Wahhabists believe you cannot show tolerance to other religions. Dr Irfan Al-Alawi, Islamic Heritage Foundation
Islamic civilisation has been one of humanity’s grandest achievements. A worldwide power founded simply on faith. A spiritual revolution that would shape the nations of three continents, and launch an empire. Empires: Islam: Empire of Faith I: The Messenger, PBS 2000
His name was Muhammad ... Muhammad was born in or around 570 A.D. ibid.
Muhammad became a merchant. ibid.
One God meant one people – no more tribal divisions. ibid.
Muhammad’s followers began to grow; they called themselves Muslims. ibid.
There was no easy description of God; the mystery would remain. ibid.
Muhammad also spoke of eternal damnation for the unjust. ibid.
Muslims faced their own tribes ... For three years the Muslim army held out against staggering odds. ibid.
By now the empire was larger than Rome. ibid.
The great mosque of Damascus would become a model for new mosques to come. ibid.
In just a hundred years Muhammad’s vision had transformed the spiritual and political map of the world. ibid.
During the 7th and 8th centuries A.D. a powerful new faith was about to change the world: the faith of Islam. Empires: Islam: Empire of Faith II: The Awakening
The scientific process was born. ibid.
Muslim hospitals had separate wards for patients suffering from different kinds of disease. Even mental illness was treated. ibid.
In Europe anti-Muslim sentiment simmered. By 1095 it reached the boiling point: Pope Urban II spent most of that year travelling through France imploring his feudal lords to unite in a campaign of bloodshed. ibid.
Days of incomprehensible horror ... The Crusaders entered Jerusalem. ibid.
Saladin’s men set fire to the tall grass. And a strong wind carried the flames into the Christian encampment. ibid.
Three months later Saladin entered Jerusalem. ibid.
Remarkably, Saladin levels no retaliation against Christians or their holy places. ibid.
Saladin’s victory did not put an end to Western aspirations in the Near East. ibid.
As the barrier of language dissolved, ideas born in the great Muslim cities began to filter into Europe. Ideas that would ever change Western thought ... And led to the European Renaissance. ibid.
The great cities of the Islamic empire would be brought to ruin ... Devastation that descended upon them not from the west but the east: it’s known as the Mongol Catastrophe ... Terror was the Mongols’ principle tactic. ibid.
In the city of Istanbul the soaring domes and minarets reveal the culmination of a thousand years of empire and faith. Empires: Islam: Empire of Faith III: The Ottomans
It was an age of regal splendour. ibid.
The Ottoman Turks began as a nomadic people. ibid.
They began to organise the new empire. ibid.
By the middle of the 15th century the Ottoman empire spread from present day Turkey, known as Anatolia, deep into the Balkans, with one critical exception: Constantinople. ibid.
The single greatest church in Christendom was now a mosque. ibid.
The Ottomans had reached the gates of the West. ibid.
The Ottoman empire would reach its apex under Suleiman’s reign. ibid.
The Muslim community has largely been in denial. And they have been this way since after 9/11, after 7/7 and after the recent Toronto arrests because to them it seems that this is some sort of mistake ... They don’t want to really accept that there’s anything wrong with their own children so to speak. The second thing is, that this is being done as some sort of conspiracy. Raheel Raza, writer & activist
The people who abandon jihad fall victim to humility and degradation. Abu Bakr
Jihad is obligatory for the Muslims. Abu Bakr
The prophet wrote the marriage contract with Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years. Sahih Al-Bukhari 7:62:88
The prophet cut off the hands and feet of the men belonging to the tribe of Uraina and did not cauterise until they died. ibid. 8:82:795
So what turns an angry young man into a potential murderer? The young of Generation Jihad often share a similar profile: isolated, empty and lacking a purpose in life. Peter Taylor, Generation Jihad, BBC 2010
[Aabid] Khan did all this on his computer at home. Yet his father, a former textile worker, remained completely in the dark ... But this ordinary son first became fascinated by radical Islam at the age of just twelve. Over the years it became an obsession. ibid.
Britain faces a clear and present terrorist threat unlike any we’ve faced before. The threat isn’t from Afghanistan, Iraq or Pakistan, it’s here from angry young British Muslims. In Muslim communities across the country there is a small minority who support violent Jihad. ibid.
But there is a risk that the effects of the new terror laws may only serve to harden the views of the extremists. ibid.
So how do you fight the Hindus? You have to bomb the Indian businesses. And as for the Jews, you kill them physically. And then you will overcome them in Kashmir and in Palestine. Sheikh Abdullah Faisal, February 2002
The person who hates kaffirs hates the infidels, and he wants to meet his Lord is the person who carries out this operation. From the first drop of his blood all his sins are forgiven. Sheikh Abdullah Faisal
In May 1998 bin Laden and Zawahri invited a group of journalists to this press conference where they announced a new Jihad ... The new Jihad would be against America itself. Adam Curtis, The Power of Nightmares, BBC 2004
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the faith: all know how to die but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.