Terrorism Motives

I know some people have such a bad grasp of history that they think terrorism didn’t exist until the 2003 Iraq War, and think it can all be blamed on that.

Whale Oil has some useful quotes from those arrested in Australia, including:

“My religion doesn’t tolerate other religion … The only law to spread – here or anywhere – has to be Islam.”

and a book identified three jihad targets: Infidels who did not accept the Koran as the book of heaven; those who took up arms against the Prophet; and those in Islamic states who refuse to pay tribute to Muslims.

“It is a Muslim’s basic duty to wipe out the above classes,”