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"My personal encounter with Israeli soldiers only added to my own discomfort. Just a few steps from the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third most holy place of Islam, I was stopped by two Israeli solders who wanted to know where I came from and where was I going. I felt scared and concerned, and subsequently decided not to attend Friday prayers at the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron because of the presence of armed Israeli settlers and the army."

"Where is Saddam? You have probably heard the nonsense that he is in Tikrit. More bad intelligence. Why would he hide where he can only be visible, exposed, endangered?"

"The present government in Afghanistan may hate us but what if the Talibaan come back in some form?"

"If the Scriptural truths didn’t suit this "manifest destiny’, then the religious elite simply "perverted", "corrupted", "lied", and "re-wrote" the suitable justifications for unending western crusades upon the hapless dark natives."

"Like it or not, the real struggle now being waged is not on the many battlefields of the Middle East but it is in the struggle over ideas that will shape the U.S. policy debate in the minds of the American people."

"Only false teachers will call their people to murder, and chaos, death and destruction, and cause them to be hated and their religion to be hated, and the prophets cursed and despised because they act wrongly in the name of what is right."

"Will we celebrate "Operation Iraqi Freedom" 50 years from now? I doubt it."

"One can only conclude that since the international community is so influential in this conflict and its progression, superpowers like the United States and Europe bear a great deal of responsibility in avoiding propaganda, and instead using international legitimacy as their ruler for judging the parties' actions."