"Claims that we are trying to establish an Islamic state are false. ... Hamas is not the Taliban. It is not al-Qaeda. It is an enlightened, moderate Islamic movement."
— Hamas

January 1, 1970

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Fathi Hamad, Hamas political bureau member, as quoted in "Which Way for Hamas?" by Max Rodenbeck and Nicolas Pelham, The New York Review of Books, 5 November 2009