[Mujahedeen], by the way, don't represent Islam in any formal sense. They're not imams or sheiks. They are self-appointed warriors for Islam. — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Speaking as a New Yorker, I found [September 11] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it. — Edward Said Copy Share Image
[9/11] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it. — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Note that there was no claim for these attacks [on 9/11]. There were no demands. There were no statements. It was a… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
The other view is of the official United States, the United States of armies and interventions. The United States that in 1953… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it (9/11 event] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it. At bottom,… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
[Roots of terrorism] come out of a long dialectic of U.S. involvement in the affairs of the Islamic world, the oil-producing world,… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
They [root causes of terror] come out of a long dialectic of U.S. involvement in the affairs of the Islamic world, the… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
The definition of terrorism has to be more precise, so that we are able to discriminate between, for example, what it is… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
It [9/11 event] transcended the political and moved into the metaphysical. There was a kind of cosmic, demonic quality of mind at… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
The United States that has been involved first in the Gulf War and then in the tremendously damaging sanctions against Iraqi civilians.… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
The people who perpetrated the terror of the World Trade Center and Pentagon bombings are something different because these people were obviously… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it a shocking and terrifying event [9/11], particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
There isn't a clear goal in sight. Osama bin Laden's organization has spun out from him and is now probably independent of… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S.… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Osama bin Laden's organization has spun out from him and is now probably independent of him. There will be others who will… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
It is very easy to make wild generalizations about Islam. All you have to do is read almost any issue of The… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I was one of the first people in the Palestinian world, in the late 1970s, to say that there is no military… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
The sense of Islam as a threatening Other - with Muslims depicted as fanatical, violent, lustful, irrational - develops during the colonial… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
[9/11] was not meant to be argued with. It wasn't part of any negotiation. No message was intended with it. It spoke… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
This [9/11 event] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it. Note that there was no claim for these… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Osama bin Laden, who is a Saudi, feels himself to be a patriot because the U.S. has forces in Saudi Arabia, which… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
If you live in the [Middle East] area, you see [U.S actions] as part of a continuing drive for dominance, and with… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
It [9/11 event] was aimed at symbols: the World Trade Center, the heart of American capitalism, and the Pentagon, the headquarters of… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
It [9/11] transcended the political and moved into the metaphysical. There was a kind of cosmic, demonic quality of mind at work… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
This [terrorists attacks on 9/11] was part of nothing. It was a leap into another realm - the realm of crazy abstractions… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
If you look at the curricula of most universities and schools in this country [USA], considering our long encounter with the Islamic… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Take a young man from Gaza living in the most horrendous conditions - most of it imposed by Israel - who straps… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
In short, Israel is the measure of our failings and our incompetence. We have waited for a great leader for years, but… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness. — Edward Said Copy Share
It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140 Israeli settlements… — Edward Said Copy Share
Look at situations as contingent, not as inevitable, look at them as the result of a series of historical choices made by men and… — Edward Said Copy Share
I was one of the first people in the Palestinian world, in the late 1970s, to say that there is no military option, either… — Edward Said Copy Share
Take a young man from Gaza living in the most horrendous conditions - most of it imposed by Israel - who straps dynamite around… — Edward Said Copy Share
[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication. — Edward Said Copy Share
I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know, however, is… — Edward Said Copy Share
Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it… — Edward Said Copy Share
The just response to this terrible event [9/11] should be to go immediately to the world community, the United Nations. The rule of international… — Edward Said Copy Share
Since when does a militarily occupied people have the responsibility for a peace movement? — Edward Said Copy Share
Refuse to allow yourself to become a vegetable that simply absorbs information, pre-packaged, pre-ideologized , because no message.. is anything but an ideological package… — Edward Said Copy Share
No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents. — Edward Said Copy Share
What we must eliminate are systems of representation that carry with them the authority which has become repressive because it doesn't permit or make… — Edward Said Copy Share
Part of the main plan of imperialism... is that we will give you your history, we will write it for you, we will re-order… — Edward Said Copy Share
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