Anti-American
Hussein al-Houthi, Founder, Date Not Determined
"[I]f the issue of confronting Israel were brought to a popular referendum . . . [the people] would vote 90 percent in favor of confronting America and Israel."Barak A. Salmoni, Bryce Loidolt, and Madeleine Wells, Regime and Periphery in Northern Yemen: The Huthi Phenomenon (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 2010), 120, http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2010/RAND_MG962.pdf.
"[Our slogans] from Americans'—the Christians' and Jews'—point of view… form an extreme danger to them."Barak A. Salmoni, Bryce Loidolt, and Madeleine Wells, Regime and Periphery in Northern Yemen: The Huthi Phenomenon (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 2010), 119, http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2010/RAND_MG962.pdf.
"Usama [bin-Laden] and the Taliban are not the ones being targeted. The event that occurred in New York [9/11] is not what motivated America. Who knows, the American intelligence could be the ones who carried out that event, to create justifications and clear the air for them to strike those who really form a danger to them, and they are the Shi'a, they are the Shi'a."Barak A. Salmoni, Bryce Loidolt, and Madeleine Wells, Regime and Periphery in Northern Yemen: The Huthi Phenomenon (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 2010), 118, http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2010/RAND_MG962.pdf.
Ibrahim al-Rubaish, Senior Cleric, Date Undetermined
"Like I said before, if a jihad, for God is willing, is considered to be a threat to the United States, then all Muslims are a threat to the United States. The jihad for one million four hundred years is considered to be a message from Islam to all the Muslims. It is a duty to all Muslims.""The Guantanamo Docket: Ibrahim Sulayman Muhammad Arbaysh," New York Times, accessed March 11, 2015, http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/192-ibrahim-sulayman-muhammad-arbaysh/documents/2/pages/2526.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Leader and Founder of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Date Undetermined
"We are striving urgently and racing against time to create companies of mujahidin that will repair to secure places and strive to reconnoiter the country, hunting the enemy – Americans, police, and soldiers – on the roads and lanes. We are continuing to train and multiply them. As for the Shi'a, we will hurt them, God willing, through martyrdom operations and car bombs." David Aaron, In Their Own Words: Voices of Jihad (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 2008), 228.
Hamas website, Date unknown
"The US failure to uphold values of human rights, equal rights, respect for international law and a shared sense of solidarity with the oppressed in the case of Palestine demonstrates the big chasm between President Obama's rhetoric and the reality he engenders through his unethical support to Israel.""#AskHamas?," Hamas website, accessed August 28, 2015, http://hamas.ps/en/page/13/FAQ#FAQ5.
Jalaluddin Haqqani, Date Unknown
"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.