Osama bin Laden of Al-Qaeda, speaking as if embodying God's will on earth, does not represent the essence of Islam, but is an ultra-extreme and violent fundamentalist.

Bin Ladin errs as far on the fundamental extreme as America errs on the backsliding extreme.  Is there a middle, common ground?  YES.  {more}

Page Contents:
Osama bin Laden in Christian, Jewish, Mormon Prophecy • Bin Laden Quotes • Islamic Prophecy of Deliverer to Come • Statements by Bin Laden • Articles • News Prior to 9-11 • Unfolding News • Books • Related Sites • Conspiracy Connections • See also

  "The terrorists practice a fringe form of Islamic extremism that has been rejected by Muslim scholars and the vast majority of Muslim clerics; a fringe movement that perverts the peaceful teachings of Islam."

-- President George W. Bush
(Sept. 20, 2001 address to nation)

Quotes from Osama Bin Laden

   "The pieces of the bodies of the infidels were flying like dust particles.  If you had seen it with your own eyes, your heart would have been filled with joy."

-- Osama bin Laden 
in videotape at son's wedding; regarding attack on U.S.S. Cole inYemen

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   "When God has guided a bunch of Muslims to be at the forefront and destroyed America, a big destruction, I wish God would lift their position."

-- Osama bin Laden
Oct. 7, 2001; Internationally televised response to  retaliatory attack by U.S.

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   "It is the duty of Muslims to prepare as much force as possible to terrorize the enemies of God."

-- Osama Bin Laden
1998, in statement titled: "The Nuclear Bomb of Islam" (ref)

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   "In today's wars, there are no morals. We believe the worst thieves in the world today and the worst terrorists are the Americans. We do not have to differentiate between military or civilian. As far as we are concerned, they are all targets."

-- Osama bin Laden
to ABC News 1998.

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   "Our work targets world infidels. Our enemy is the crusader alliance led by America, Britain and Israel. It is a crusader-Jewish alliance."

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   "Youths only want one thing, to kill you so they can go to paradise."

-- Osama bin Laden
in fatwa issued in 1996

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   "We incite our Muslim brothers in Pakistan to give everything they own and are capable of to push the American crusade forces from invading Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Prophet, Peace Be Upon Him, said: Whoever didn't fight, or prepare a fighter, or take good care of a fighter's family, Allah will strike him with a catastrophe before Judgment Day."

-- Osama bin Laden
Statement provided on Sept. 24, 2001 by the Al-Jazeera television news network, based in Qatar

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   "Terrorism can be commendable, and it can be reprehensible.  The terrorism we practice is of the commendable kind for it is directed at the tyrants and the aggressors and the enemies of Allah."

Osama bin Laden
to journalist John Miller, 1998

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   "Being killed for Allan's cause is a great honor achieved by only those who are the elite of the nation.  We love this kind of death for Allah's cause as much as you like to live.  We have nothing to fear for.  It is something we wish for."

-- Osama bin Laden
in CNN interview, 1997

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   "It is the duty of every Muslim to fight. Killing Jews is top priority."