"It is made clear that one need not guard one’s private parts from two kinds of women – one’s wives and slave-girls."

"Islam is a revolutionary ideology and programme which seeks to alter the social order of the whole world and rebuild …"

"[Muslims (of the right-thinking kind) constitute a Revolutionary Party whose objective] is to expend all the powers o…"

"In the jihad in the way of Allah, active combat is not always the role on the battlefield, nor can everyone fight in …"

"Islam is not a ‘religion’ in the sense this term is commonly understood. It is a system encompassing all fields of li…"

"Islam wishes to destroy all states and governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideolog…"

"Finally, no less a figure than Sayyid Abu ’l-‘Alā’ Mawdūdī, one of the major thinkers behind modern Islamist ideology…"

"“God has prohibited the unrestricted intermingling of the sexes and has prescribed purdah [a word of Persian origin m…"

"The reforms which Islam wants to bring about cannot be carried out merely by sermons. Political power is essential fo…"

"[Unbelievers] “have, however, absolutely no right to seize the reins of power in any part of God’s earth nor to direc…"