- Yasser Arafat

“For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan.”

- Zahir Muhsein
Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee member
March 31, 1977 in Dutch newspaper Truow

- Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

- Sheik Yousef al-Qaradhawi, Islamic scholar affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood

- Hussein Massawi, former leader of Hezbollah

“Islam is a guide for humanity, for all times, until the day of judgment. It is forbidden in Islam to convert to any religion. The penalty is death. There is no disagreement about it.

“Islam is being embraced by people of other faiths all the time. They should know they can embrace Islam, but cannot get out. This rule is not made by Muslims; it is the supreme law of [Allah].

“Please do not ask us Muslims to pick some rules and disregard other rules. Muslims are supposed to embrace Islam in its totality.”

- Nazra Quraishi, kindergarten teacher in the Lansing State Journal (Mich.) July 5, 2006

- Gen. Hameed Gul, former Director of Pakistan’s ISI intelligence service

America’s two main diplomats at the time [1794] were John Adams in London and Jefferson in Paris. Together they called upon Ambassador Abdrahaman, the envoy of Tripoli in London, in March 1786. This dignitary mentioned a tariff of three payments–for the ransom of slaves and hostages, for cheap terms of temporary peace and for more costly terms of “perpetual peace.” He did not forget to add his own commission as a percentage. Adams and Jefferson asked to know by what right he was exacting these levies. The U.S. had never menaced or quarreled with any of the Muslim powers. As Jefferson later reported to the State Department and Congress, “The Ambassador answered us that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners.”

“These are foundational ideas from the Islamic institution of jihad—the war Islam has waged by military and propagandistic and economic means since its advent— to Islamize the globe,” writes Andrew Bostom, author of The Legacy of Jihad, in an email discussion today.

“Sura 9 of the Koran is nothing more than a series of timeless war proclamations against all the world’s non-Muslims.” continues Bostom. “Add these Koranic injunctions to the Koranic commentaries, the canonical hadith collections, the biographies of Muhammad, and the Muslim jurisprudence–not to mention over a millennium of facts on the ground history– and these sources and historical evidence make plain that the Muslim Tripolitan Ambassador was entirely correct.” (emphasis mine)

Bostom covers this topic extensively in a 2006 post at FrontPage Magazine that is a must-read.

- Ayatollah Khomeini

Because Muslim fundamentalists despise music. To Sayyid Qutb – a former leader of the Muslim Brotherhood – the purpose of life is death through jihad, not enjoying music. But it’s not just founding fathers of terrorism saying this stuff. Here’s what one Islamic legal manual has to say about those who listen to music: “On the day of Resurrection, Allah will pour molten lead into the ears of whoever sits listening to a songstress.”